Little red

Hello!
I am so delighted with this little doll pattern! It is the Chibi Girl, by Fiona McDonald. The pattern is free and can be found here.
I made up the clothes as I was going. She is wearing a blue dress with a white pinafore and (of course!) a red riding hood.
My daughter thought that her real name was Emma, so here is Emma:

I will never do as my mummy tells me...

And you big bad woolf, don't be so sure you'll get me. I read that book before!

 

ha!

Oh, when will he be here???

Hello! Such a long time since my last post!

I have been very busy with many things, among them passing lovely crafty times. I am thinking of (again) starting a new blog. Originally I thought it would be easier to keep things separately (crafts and knitting/crocheting), but it is proving too much, and I end up not updating any blog. So I will have to go back to one only with all the things I do...because after all that is what my life it is like: one little project here, another little one over there, oh, that one has been waiting to be completed for a couple of years already, etc. But not yet.

I quickly want to post pics of my most recent finished project (almost finished, I wanted to knit some flowers on the skirt). I made a Ranpunzel, ordered by my daughter. The doll pattern was taken from the delightful 'Babes in the Wool' by Fiona McDonald. The dress she is wearing was adapted from the one appearing in 'Dream Toys' by Claire Garland.

So, here she is, bored, oh so bored, and ever so beautiful in her boredom...

When???

Seriously!

The blue blanket

 

Today I am starting the blue blanket. It will be for Lucas, and the choice or colours is inspired by the Turkish Mediterranean Sea. A wave to take home.

After having knitted with Stylecraft's Special DK I don't think I will be back to the other cheap acrylics (I still have few balls in my stash, but I will be liminting these to the making of toys, doll's clothes and little accessories for children). The shades I am using are aspen, spring green, aster, cloud blue, sherbet and turquoise.

I will be knitting 15cm squares in garter stitch to make it reversible. To start, I am liminting myself to plain squares, but I might add stripes and texture if needed.

Triinu Scarf

Today I started the Triinu Scarf by Nancy Bush. I got a little bit bored of the sock, so I decided to start this project I had in the queue. I am using Rowan's Kidsilk Haze in a brown/greenish shade that I bought half price at a yarn shop sale:

The first few rows of the pattern look promising so far! I will post a picture soon.

Socks

 The socks are looking pretty good! I had a false start, as I realised that the size was too small. I had miscounted the stitches, so I had to start it again. Now they might be too big, but that's ok: hopefully they will be both (right and left foot) ready for next winter!  I am slowly getting used to 4 needles. I had problems at the beginning with the rows at the needle changing points, but tugging the yarn firmly seems to do the job.

Some finished projects

I should post here some of my finished projects. I started knitting when I was very little. My granmother was a knitter, crocheter, seamtress and taylor (she lived from that). She taught me as soon as I showed an interest. I used to knit my jumpers as a teenager. Today it seems to be different (or may be because I am in a different country/culture?), but in those days (we are talking early 80's), if you wanted to have a nice jumper to wear, you had to knit it yourself. Or may be that was the way it was in my family! I also learnt to crochet. My crocheting was mostly supported by the teaching of a different 'granny', my godmother's mum. I remember random knittings along my life: a blue jumper when I was 16, a little jumper for a puppy I had when I was 20 (I remember alternating knitting and excercises while I was preparing for an exam -I studied Physics-), a cardigan and a jumper for my baby son...wait! I have pictures of that! :)

This is me knitting a pink and lilac cardigan...which was left unfinished when our doctor said: 'Did I said to you it was a girl? Gee, I was wrong!'.

This is the little jumper. I had forgotten about the booties, now I remember! Eventually I will get enough time to do a scrapbook...when the children leave home!

Lucas taken by suprise wearing the cardigan I knitted for him...

Ok, I got you, you are taking a picture of me!

I took up crochet/knitting back again a couple of years ago, again to do stuff for the children. I knitted a lovely little baby doll for Emilia (from a knitting magazine, when I have more time I might add some pics and references), a pirate doll for Lucas, a Snake for Lucas:

and I crocheted some clothes for Emilia's baby doll (the green version is still unfinished. I am thinking about decorating it with little flowers or something):

The pattern for this 'Crochet Baby Dress - Solomon's Knot' and hat were scaled from patterns by Teresa Richardson which you can find in her very, very helpful blog (it is worth a visit!). Most patterns and tutorials come with videos, which are clear and straightforward. Below you can see the same dress and hat in grass green...

And finally, a project that I enjoyed enormously, my first lace knit:

The pattern is from the Lilac leaf Shawl designed by Nancy Bush, which appears in her book 'Knitted Lace of Estonia'. I used Rowan Kidsilk Haze, and it worked really well. Soon I will start my second lace project, the Peacock tail and leaf Scarf. For the moment, I am focusing on my first pair of socks :)

Sock trial

I am starting to knit socks. I have lots of lovely sock yarn, but I have never knitted a sock before. So I decided to start with the ‘Socks 101’ at Knitty.com. I think I never worked with 4 needles before, it took me a while to get it going! Finally, after many false starts, here it is, my little sock trial.

Bufanda-Chal

Termine la bufanda-chal!

Aca van unas fotitos mostrando como fue evolucionando:

Asi empezo...








Y asi termino...

Una vivora a pedido (de Lucas)

La termine hoy. Todavia le tengo que hacer la bufanda!