I'm taking part in a stashbusting effort: Personal Small Items club. The idea is to bag patterns and yarn from stash for them, one for each month, and then knit them one a month.
I made my bags in December, and I can't wait to get to open the February one!
I made these sets as Christmas presents for a 3-year-old and a 7-year-old girls. I hope they like them!
First the turqoise set (Pinja's set from Ullaneule)
For the hat, I CO 104 stitches and made the hat with 3,5mm dpns. The hat is ca 18 cm long - I made the first version too short, had to rip back to knit more rows. The mitts were made 100% according to the instructions.
The yarn is 7-Veljestä Moniraita (I think).
finished and sent off some Calorimetries and a cat bed to Ompelukerho . I got the Calorimetries' designers approval for making several of them and selling them for charity. The cat bed might be given as a present to an animal shelter (based on Princess Snowball catbed from S'n'B Handbook).
I hope they get some money for the animals with my knits!
I've been knitting some Calorimetrys as gifts, and hopefully I will be able to give some to Ompelukerho - women's action group for animal welfare - so they could sell them in the Christmas fairs. I am still waiting for the designers' answer, as I am not / no one is allowed to sell them without the designers permission.
A word (or a picture) of warning to all you out there who won't swatch. Remember my hat I was knitting a week back? Here it is knitted up. Nice, huh?
I thought it just might be a big too big for anyone, so I simply frogged it.
Now I'm thinking should I try to knit the hat again, or just to use the yarn for something else.
The hat was really fun to make; I actually got a serious knitting need last monday and practically finished it in a few hours.
