I´m so happy, I've finished my first granny square blanket! I've spent two damn years working on and off on this thing. Well, mostly off.



I had the idea to make this to get rid of all of the scrap yarn I´ve collected in a basket. Now, two years and 160 squares later, you can´t even tell I´ve used any of it, the basket is still so damn full. Oh well.



It is a bit wonky, and I tried blocking it, but it didn´t really help. Wonkyness gives it charm and personality, right?



I´ve already started the next one. I hope to finish the next on in less than two years

So, I needed a new dress for a rockabilly theme party. This is my dress to rock around the clock with. I was going to be dancing swing all night long so I needed something that 1) moves really well and 2) is comfy.



 I endend up making it out of stretch jersey. The bottom is a full cirles skirt so it has a lot of movement.



I even put in a pocket, to keep my cell and some cash, so I wouldn´t need to have a purse.

 It´s awesome to twirl in!



Here´s a better view of the dress itself. It´s a white top with red polkadots and a red skirt. It has halterneck tie straps and it´s gathered in the front. It´s hand sewn by hand, since my sewing mashine is broken. I didn´t bother heming the bottom, but it´s jersy so it´s ok.




I love it! What do you think?

I haz made a dress!



We have a rockabilly theme party next week and I had nothing to wear - but a whole lot of white polkadot streachjersy...



 I´m super happy with it. I think it looks really good. Some of the sewing in the back is a bit... alternative, but who can tell? I´m wearing it with a black cardigan I own. I´ll do that at the party as well - anything else will be way to cold at this time of year. There is still half a meter of snow outside. Brrr



I originally intended for the whole dress to be in polkadots - but it´s a bit much when you´re my size It´s not very rockabilly but I think everybody will get what i was going for anyways.

So, I´ve started my christmas-knitting, and is so excited I need to share! I´m not gonna get feedback from the intended recipients for another month or so  I´m on a sock-roll this year, I feel.

Dark gray and teal socks in a traditional pattern



Better pic of the rose-pattern. It´s so pretty



Same in black and light blue. It´s for my dad and way to big for me



And another one in black and white.



Rubberducky-socks!



I love them!



And *ehm* loving moose-socks



With trees on the other side. Thise makes me giggle.



More traditional socks.



Better pic of the pattern. I really like the "diamond" under the heel.



Same pattern in white



And some mittens - from my own pattern. They are really a dark purple and light gray - not bright pink. But my green carpet messes a bit with the colors



A view of inside.



Same colors, but opposite use.



And in dark gray and pink. I love making these - they knit up so fast



More socks - in thin, soft yarn.



And what I´m working on now. It´s gonna be another sock. I love the pattern

So I´ve found this beautiful beautiful dress that I want to recreate for prom, and I quite can´t wrap my head around the top half.


Pretty, ain't it?

There is obviously a tire around the waist and 6 pleats on top of the bust, and two small beneath, but I just can´t imagine how the pattern looks... There dosn´t seem to be any seams either, but I might be wrong. 

Anyone got any ideas?

I´ve got my poppet!



And looook at those sexy eyes!



And for the effekt


I <3 her so much!

teaser pic for syrlig!




she is on her way, hopefully only take a week or two to get to Norway

  So curios!

So, a while ago I transformed my granny's old selbusock-pattern to a mitten pattern.



I'm in love with how the mittens look.





And here is the same but with opposite coloring.



I actually think I like white on black the most. It looks cleaner.



I've knitted a lot of these in different colors. It looks great in blue and white, or purple and gray. Unfortunately I never hang on long enough to the mittens to take a photos - they're more popular than warm cookies  

The pattern is free and available on ravelry.

Adorable! Is this a "Delicous" pattern? If so, what weight yarn and hook did you use and how big is it?

It is the Delicious pattern!

I used DK with a 3.00 mm hook. It turned out bigger than I expected. I don´t really have the measurements but I have a picture of holding the head in my hand, so you can get a feel of the size.



The pattern was for the most part really well written but I had some problems with where, exactly, to attach everything, especially all the small things on the head. But the result is really cool

So, I've knitted the wonderful dahlia sweater. It's sooo pretty! And the pattern is wonderful! I was thinking of wearing it in the winter over a long sleeve. Cute and warm!




I changed the cable to something easier to knit up and made it a bit longer, to wear it as a tunic. It was a real pain in the end because I increased between the stitches to make a A shape, I think I had about 500 stitches to bind off. But it's really wide and flowy and lovely.



I bound off a bit tight so the neckline is too high up. I'm thinking of redoing that since I'll be using a top under anyway and it might give my bust a bit more room. Also, that would make it a bit longer and cover my butt a bit more - I think that wearing tights as pants with regular tops are tasteless, and I'm not sure my dahlia is long enough.



I also did some increases below the bust so it would fit my curves better. Here is a detail shot of the bust. Sorry for the boobage  *ehm*




Overall I'm happy with it. BUT - now that it's done I've realised it's so very yellow. I have no idea why I chose that color really, I'm more of a purple kinda girl. I guess I was trying to do something different but I've realised that it's just too damn yellow for me to ever wear

It is 100% wool, but I don't want to dye it black - that would loose all the details. Is there anything else I can do to save it? Would blue dye make it green? I've never dyed yarn before and am a bit out of my league here.

It would be sad to frog all that hard work to knit it again in another color.