Wrist warmers

Thinking about the fall and winter almost always makes me want to create some warm clothing... Wrist warmers, for example! And as it's slowly getting colder outside, I find a lot of inspiration these days...

I had some beautiful gray yarn, and started knitting on garter webbings, to create wrist warmers that wouldn't need sewing-together when all the knitting was done. Of course I couldn't just settle with ordinary rib stich; I made a brede on one of its sides, and then tried to crochet some lace at the ends of it. I think it came out kind of cute, however I had to start over several times to get the size right, and it still turned out way too small to be comfy, as it's apparently more or less impossible to estimate the finished size when doing it like this. And it doesn't have a hole for the thumb, either.

I then decided to go for the kind of wrist warmers that are to be sewn together..

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I used knitting needles in sizes 4 mm, and with 35 stiches on each row, I knitted one row even, one row uneven, X one row uneven, one row even, one row uneven Y, then repeating from X to Y until the pieces were long enough to reach around my wrists. I made sure that I ended up with even rows at both the beginning and the end of the piece (at the same side).

Eventually I sewed them together when inside out (with the ending even rows outwards), leaving room for the thumbs, and turned them the right way out.

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Crocheting lace really isn't one of my stronger sides, and I think it was part reason for why the grey one turned out so small, so I decided to simply thread some satin ribbons around these and finish with a bow. The ribbons can easily be removed, if doing winter activities that would jeopardize their lasting.

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Last but not least: it's one of my best friends' birthday today, and the blue pair is intended for her. The black ones, I think will be a Christmas gift for myself!

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Love,

Ellinor

T-shirt text

You know that feeling that you have a message that you ought to give the world, only that the world isn't listening?

I simply wrote my message on a t-shirt, with some of that colour paint that you let dry, and then iron on to make it stay.

This particular text is in latin, and it says "Man is a wolf for man". A little misantrphic perhaps, but it's what I wanted to say.

I'm kind of thinking on adding some flowers on the lower part of the t-shirt, I'll get back to you if I actually decide to do so.

Love,
Ellinor

Stuffed animal made from a pair of socks

I made this stuffed animal for my cousin's newborn baby some time ago. Since it's colourful, cute and cuddly, I think it's the perfect thing to put in the very first post of this blog; those are all the kind of qualities which I want this blog to be pervaded with.


I used a pattern which I found on the internet a really long time ago, which of course is why I can't find it again now. Anyhow, if you Google for it, a number of different patterns show up.

The pattern was for a monkey, I however think that in this case, it's better to let the child use it's imagination when it comes to deciding the species of it...


It's made out of a pair of very colourful knee-socks, which I think worked out quite well. I believe that it's easier to make the animal look proportional in size if using a pair of knee-socks, than is using a pair or regular ones. Obviously this might vary depending on what kind of animal you're making.


The colours you can of course choose as you like; a tip is however to pick socks with a different colour on the toes and heels, which then distincts the nose, hands, feet, bottom and perhaps also the ears of the animal.


Love,
Ellinor