More weapons against the cold

My knitting needles have been busy again and yet another warm knit is ready for the winter.
Another One nighter, this time the yarn was Katia Odisea, 8mm needles, seed stitch in round, 45 stitches.

Let the cold weather come, it has nothing on me now! :)

Warming things for winter

This Autumn I have been really into knitting. And as a result I have two hats and two scarfs just for myself! :) I won't be cold this winter and I now have the kind of warmers I really like.

In the first pics is my One Night scarf. I used 8mm needles, 51 stitches, seed stitch in round, yarn: Novita Karuselli (oh my it's acrylic(!) but really soft and doesn't itch :) ). Really easy and fast to knit. As it says in the name it took me one night to knit.

In these following pics one sneezy knitter shows Lina (free pattern in Ravelry or in joko knits blog), Hedda (Vilma Vuori's pattern in Ravelry 5€)  and a scarf that I made up. I used some familiar knitting styles to a scarf that I really like. It has a loop in the end to pull the scarf through.

 Wishing you warm and sunny Autumn days!

Autumn Celebration 2012: Freebies again! :)

Autumn Celebration continues with more freebies for you to stitch. :) These patterns are from Brooke's Books. Click the pics to open and save pdf-files.

 

You can find more Brooke's Books' freebies here.

It's starting to feel like Autumn. Leaves are falling, a lot of colours in trees, crisp Autumn air in the mornings.

Have great and sunshiny Autumn days!

And the Winner is...

TAFFY! 

Congratulations, Taffy! :)

She won my Halloween chart giveaway.

Taffy will soon get an email  from Creative Poppy about the chart she chose: Wicked Plant.

 

My Kai-Meis

There is a challenge in a Finnish blog Sukkasato (sock harvest). People who take part in it are in three sub blogs and knit all the things you use in your feet; socks, leg warmers, slippers etc. and post pictures. I am in the sub blog Heinälato (Hay barn). After one week all the partisipants had knitted 116 pairs. I only got something ready on this second week since I've been knitting for the wrong end of the body (all those hats you've seen :)). The harvest runs through September and October so I hope I get more done before the end.

I knitted these socks from Sock Innovation book, written by Cookie A. The pattern is called Kai-Mei. The yarn Mokkasukka is hand dyed in the shop called Villamokka, sadly it's closed. Colour of the yarn is called Trabant. I think I used about 50g from the 100g skein. I knitted the cuff about a half shorter than in the pattern since I like shorter cuff.

There is still time to sign in to my giveaway! It ends at Midnight so hurry up! :)

Autumn Celebration 2012: Freebies!

I continue the Autumn Celebration with freebies. Not one, not two but loads! :)

These are some examples of the many many freebies by Sullivans Floss. Click the pictures to download and save the files. (You will need a program to extract these since they are .rar-files). To convert the colours to other brands you can use these conversion charts from CyberStitchers or Sullivans here.

 

See more great seasonal freebies from Sullivans Floss here. Once on the site click the "Project central. Download FREE" box and you'll see all the freebies available.

I hope you have seen the giveaway a couple posts down. It ends tomorrow at midnight!

Autumn exchange from Kaisa

I got this amazing exchange from Kaisa. Exchange theme was changing seasons and this was the fourth and the last part. I love that box, the colours and the pattern. In the box was some pumpkin cat fabric, very pretty Autumn-ribbon, small autumn embellishments and a candle which suits spot on to my decor at home. It's like Kaisa has seen my home! :)

Knitting some hats... again :)

 I have been thinking that I want to knit a hat for my self. I have been thinking that every autumn for like at least three years. So I finally did it! Didn't take that long, or what? :D It took me two evenings to knit.

This pattern called Hedda is from Vilma (her blog and patterns here).
I used Novita Wool, yarn doubled. 4mm and 4,5mm needles. This is a chunky version of the Fitted Hedda. I wanted to have really warm hat for the winter since we get -30C (and sometimes below that) here.
And yes, that's me in the pic... looking really tired! :D

My cousin saw the hats that I knitted for charity and asked if I could knit hats for her son. So I did. I sent these two yesterday, I hope they are the right size.

Boxie Hat (my own creation, no pattern available) 

This is the same colour that my hat, the picture is just a bit too light.

Pixie Hat