Pink things

Lace doilies and a pillow cover, all of which happened to be pink unintentionally.

Here is the pillow, I'm super happy with this, it's just perfect! 

The other side. This pillow is made with eight shades of Drops Paris and the all-pink squares are in Novita Kaisla, all of the yarns were from my stash.

I didn't use a pattern, I just had something in mind involving the ripple pattern, but after it was done I realized that the yarn wouldn't be enough to cover the whole pillow. So I went through my stash and thankfully found some pink that matched the colours!

These two doilies are both made with the same yarn, that I can't name right now, and with a 1,5mm hook. Both patterns are from various crochet magazines that only have patterns for lace doilies. 

This one is a real beauty. Made with the same yarn and hook again. It's hanging high up on the wall so sorry about the reflection. The black background really highlights all the details.

This pattern is Eastern Fantasies and I truly enjoyed making it. Lots of different stitches and the result is stunning.

Three new pairs

Some socks I've made recently.

A size 38 made with Regia Pairfect and 2,5mm needles. The pattern was pretty basic and it was fun to knit Pairfect again.

This pair is a size 43, bigger than what I'm used to making so I googled some of the measurements and stitch counts of a sock of that size, and I think they turned out pretty okay. This one is also a very basic pattern, just with ribbing to give flexibility. The yarn is Regia Desing Line with 3,5mm needles.

The last pair is crocheted, and I made these for myself since I haven't really made any crochet socks before. I have tried some patterns in the past but they always turned out to be a wrong size or weirdly shaped and just not fitting at all (it's my fault, not the patterns'), so I decided to just try something that I felt would work. And they turned out fine. I really want to make more crochet socks to practice and hopefully come up with a good and versatile pattern.

Spring flowers

A cute shawl that I'm very happy with! It's my own pattern, I wanted something with flowers and came up with the pattern for the hexagon and then I got the idea to join them to make a triangle shawl.

It's not very big and it has more of a lace kind of look to it, so I'm thinking this would be lovely to wear over my shoulders in the summertime.

Here it is on the blocking board. This yarn is Zauberball, I had two balls and they were enough for 28 hexagons and the edge, and I have a little bit of left overs from both balls. I used a 3,5mm crochet hook for the hexagons and a 4mm one for the edge.

Blocking really made a difference for me, before it I wasn't completely happy with how the pattern looked, but now I'm in love with how beautiful it turned out to be.

I also love how the long colour changes in the yarn make it so each hexagon is different from the other, and that there are both multi-coloured ones and ones that are the same colour all the way. I love the fact that winter is coming soon, but now that I made this shawl I can't wait for summer so I can wear it!

A cable jacket

This is a jacket that I made for my mom, and I'm very happy with. It was fairly quick to make, now that I think back, and the size is just right.

Front and back (these photos are super bright, sorry about that). There's many different cable patterns which were quite easy to memorize so I didn't have to look at the chart all the time. 

This pattern is from Novita Kesä 2016 and the yarn is 7 Veljestä. I used 5,5mm needles, half a size bigger that what the pattern said, and the knit fabric is nice and soft and not too tight which sometimes happens when there is a lot of cables.

This jacket is not 100% finished, because it doesn't have buttons yet, but when my mom picks the right ones it won't take me too long to sew them on. And I wanted to make a post because I'm really happy with this jacket and it was a nice project.

I started making a beanie with the leftover yarn, it has the same type of cables that the jacket has. I'm going to make it very long so you can fold the edge when wearing the beanie, which gives extra warmth to the ears and the forehead. This picture also has horrible light, it's dark outside and I don't have any special lamps for taking photos, which is why I try to take most of my photos in the daylight, but I don't think it's really that important.