Scandinavian throw

Today I am trying to finish the last square that I have received of the Scandinavian throw, its a square that you knit from one corner to the other, which gives diagonal stripes, pretty neat to see.
After that I will probably not be doing much knitting for a bit, as we are about to do an international move.
Above you will see what its going to look like :-)

Finished the Shaker Style Throw

Last night I finished the last rim of crocheting around the Shaker Style throw.
The pattern said to crochet 2 rounds, first one in the colour red and the second in the colour blue. We decided that it was more fun to do red-white-blue as this is also the Dutch flag and I must say, it looks really nice.
I had not made anything like that before, because its a large project and I prefer doing projects that I can oversee better, but it was lots of fun and it is simply totally finished and laying on our couch now as you can see above. I am pleased!
Please do click on the photograph to see the whole throw, as you only see one side of it now :-)

Scandinavian throw

The next throw that the art of knitting is publishing is in scandinavian style. I didn't really know whether I wanted to make that one as well initially, but I do like the colours and I like the majority of the squares, so I decided to go for it. The first square I knit last Saturday. It was a nice cabled one, hope the rest is pretty much similarly interesting to knit.

Shaker style throw

This throw from the art of knitting is very very simple to knit, no challenges in that. I have been knitting it slowly but carefully and in the meantime I am to the level of only needing to knit 2 more squares and sewing it together, some bits of the sewing together have been done already.
I would like to finish it within the next 3 weeks as this means it will be ready to take in the car with us on our massive move. The kids would love it, as its very warm and with this it would be a very nice thing to sleep under in the 10+ hour car journey.

Monica and Quick & Dirty

What a nice set huh? Two different ones, by the same designer. Only 2 more sets to go :-)
Click on the photo to see the whole photograph, its much bigger than you can see like this.

Quick & Dirty

Doesn't this look good!

Do click on the photo, with that you can see the whole photograph, as its much bigger, the whole leg is visible :-)

Last time Lucy

Only the straps left and I am done, in time!
SIL has a nice birth day present ahead of her :-)

Lucy again

Two evenings ago I finished knitting Lucy for Ulrike. So now I am working slowly but carefully on putting it together, it doesn't go fast, but I am getting there. I still have 2 weeks to fix it.
Its a good feeling to know I will get it done :-)

Lucy for Ulrike

The last weeks I haven't really had enough time to knit, so I am seriously behind on knitting Lucy for Ulrike. This bugs me, as it needs to be done by mid November.
Gotta make more time to knit I guess. The house will have to suffer :-)

Crochet stitch dictionary

Here you will find a very nice crochet stitch dictionary. I loved finding it :-)

Fingerless gloves

These are crocheted fingerless gloves.
Have a look here
The whole website has free patterns

Pineapple monokini

This looks really really good.
I want to make this at some point, but the list is getting larger and larger.....
Crochet pineapple monokini

Soap sacks

Soap sacks
A quick and easy crochet pattern, great!

Baby bloomers

Baby bloomers
Lots of explanation on the website too.
Have fun!

Toddler pants

Toddler soaker pants

This pattern looks very good and seems to be really big. Enjoy!

Nifty knitters

Nifty knitters

This is a pdf on the page, scroll down a bit.

Pimp my longies

Pimp my longies

This looks like a great longies pattern, with quite some explanations.
Have fun!

Juju baby pants

Juju
Very nice pattern on knitty.com

Pears pants

Pears pants
Very nice pattern for longies and shorties.

Blue jeans soakers

Blue jeans soakers
Another wonderful pattern from Knitty.com

Cargo pants

Cargo pants
This pattern was published in Knitty.com.

Knitspirations pants

Scroll down for the pattern. Its knit in the round.
Knitspirations pants

Hat, sweater, pants & socks set

Hat, sweater, pants & socks set from Drops design.
This looks gorgeous. I think this set would also be very useful as a soaker.

Punk knitters soaker

This looks like a very nice pattern as well.
Punk knitters soaker
A very nice one.

Drawstring baby pants

A crochet pattern.
Drawstring baby pants
I think it looks great.

Pants on fire

These look good.
Pants on fire
Its another free pattern.

Fancy pants II

This patterns is really simple and easy, I would recommend using it when you are a beginner.
Have fun knitting it.
Fancy pants II

Fancy pants

And another great free pattern.
Fancy pants
Just click on the above link and you will be directed there.
Hope you enjoy the collection of free baby pants.

Tiny Birds

Tiny birds
Another wonderful pattern and again for free.

Kanoko pants

Kanoko pants
Click on the above link and you will find a nice pattern for some really nice baby pants, it has a pattern in there, really cute.

Warm heart woolies

Warm heart woolies

Click on the above link to find a plain wrap and baby soakers for free.
Hope you have fun knitting it :-)

Doodlepants

Doodlepants

Click on the above link and you will find a very nice pattern for longies for free.
Have fun knitting

Vintage wool soakers

Recently a friend shared some photo's of some wool soakers she had made. They were gorgeous. I asked her which pattern she had used.
And she told me the following pattern, which was online, for free:
Free wool soaker pattern, click here.
Its a pdf.
It should be fun making this.

Latvian knitting technique

This link gave me a totally new technique to practice.
http://www.savannahchik.com/2007/01/tutorial_latvian_techniques.htm
Hope you will enjoy it as well.

Lucy for Ulrike

About a week ago I also started knitting Lucy for Ulrike for her birthday. She will become 40 this year and I needed to do something really really nice for her.
So there we go, I bought a very nice yarn, a combo of silk and cotton, I really got lucky with that and it knits so very nice, its just wonderful material.
I do have a deadline on this, which is something I kinda hate, but never mind, should work as I still have 3 months to get it done and the lace edge bottoms are already done.
I sure hope she likes it.

Gina

Started knitting Gina by Joan McGowan-Michael this week as well, I couldn't wait :-) and it knits very nicely, its a wonderful pattern to knit, very easy.

Received my package

This morning I received my package of patterns and yarn from Joan from White Lies Designs.
It contained a ton of patterns that I want to make - I wish I had more time....
And it contained 2 yarn packs, one for Gina and one for Lucy, which I will make for my SIL. I am sooo exited.

Quick and Dirty

Yesterday I started knitting these stockings. They are getting on pretty quick and start to look really nice. Its a great pattern I think. Its no doubt useful for other garments as well. I can see it in various ways used in my head already :-)
Photo will follow. On with the knitting now.

Elann Esprit

Yesterday I received 12 balls of Elann Esprit black yarn. Its the cotton yarn with some elastic in it. I will use this for another Trish, with Monica stocking sand Quick and Dirty stockings. I am sooo looking forward to knitting that again, it was such a joy to do. Maybe I will even knit it in bright red as well some day. We will see.

Marta for Elise again

I am now working on the sleeves. Elise wants them different than the patterns says, but not in a complicated way, so we are working on that now.
It starts to look really good.

My stash

I just checked my stash and found that I have much more types of yarn in my stash than I thought. I somehow had that impression that I don't really have much, but that was a dream. Well.... all the more stuff available now for knitting and crocheting.
And for sewing as my stash in fabrics is pretty decent as well *lol*

Marta for Elise

Been working on this lately again, and now the back is done and I am working on the front. It starts to look really nice. Elise really choose a very nice yarn for this sweater. Pictures will follow when its done.
The last couple of week I have mainly been busy with knitting squares for my throw, but as I got bored with it, I switched to the sweater again.

Moved blog

Today I moved this blog to the place where I have the rest as well, so it is easier to post things on this blog without having to login and logout all the time back and forth, that is frustrating, so now it should work much better.
The only thing is that I need to move photographs as well and add them to this blog, this will happen somewhere within the next few weeks.
With a baby nursing and needing caring it can be difficult to do all in one blow.

Gehaakte stermotieven - Eva Behrens

Years ago I owned a book called: Gehaakte stermotieven, by Eva Behrens (crocheted star motivs). I loved it. For some years now its gone. I have been searching for it for ages now, didn't think of searching online, today I did. So I got lucky. I found it in a few Dutch places. One place was Bol.com, but there the 2nd hand sellers won't send outside of Holland. So that didn't make me too happy. Then I started a search on marktplaats.nl and found it 2x times there. So I have e-mailed the first seller with the question whether she will sell it to me and send to the UK. Hopefully she will. Somehow I really hate it when books that I love disappear just like that.
But then, with our move more things disappeared, which I really hate. I do wonder how this can happen. A whole box I could understand, but one thing only? Or just 2 things, that doesn't make any sense.
Hopefully no moving in the next couple of years.

Myrthestiek said...

Hoi Diana,

dat zijn echte mysteries van verhuizen, ik ken ze maar al te goed ;o).
Mocht het rechtstreeks versturen naar de UK niet lukken dan kan het altijd wel via mij; moet je maar even laten weten dan.

Groetjes Tessa

02 February 2008 09:14

Nappie covers

A few days ago I made some nappie covers for our new baby. They turned out really nice. Soon I will post pictures of those as well. Now I need to continue with some All-In-Ones and some plain cotton nappies. Baby will not wait forever to be born.

Frilled cardigan

YES! Its almost done, and it looks good!
The only thing that my daughter doesn't like about it, is that the sleeves are to her opinion a tad long. I think they are fine. I have also told her that she can now grow a bit and not in 2 months not fit into it anymore, as she is still growing quite a lot. It just looks gorgeous, I will post a picture as soon as I have one, with her in it.

crochet patterns

I have just come to the thought that I haven't found any patterns yet for lingerie which are crochet. I would love to give that a try as well. I wonder what the issue is. Maybe I should make some myself, as crochet is very easy and I have no problems making my own things with that. I think I will have a think about that and see what I can come up with.
Somehow to me crochet is much easier than knitting, and knitting is already a piece of cake. I have already made my own wool soakers for my youngest, without pattern, so I guess I really should give it a try.
The light spots on the top soaker are from the lanolin that I used on it. I make my own special easy to use powder which you can just use on the wool program in your washing machine, coz otherwise it would all take me way way way too long to lanolize and stuff. Quick and easy is how I like it.

Gorgeous Finnish Pattern

I have in the meantime found a translation to English. I am super happy.
http://vikatikit.blogspot.com/2007/12/minttumaari-shawl-pattern-in-english.html
I will put it in the links list, so anyone can find it later as well.

Heirloom knitting

21 december 2007: Today, while browsing on Ravelry I read about the most amazing lace pattern I have ever seen. The Princess Shawl : http://www.heirloom-knitting.co.uk/projects11.html
This is definitely something I will have to make some day. Right now there is too much going on in my life, but I will make sure I will buy this pattern within the next few months to make sure I have it here to make it later on. It is just gorgeous.

stitch 'n bitch nation

13 december 2007: Yesterday I was very happy, I got a nice parcel delivered. In it was the book stitch 'n bitch nation. I ordered it as I saw a wonderful pattern on Ravelry, called quick and dirty. With checking I found there were more patterns in there that I would like to make, so I decided to buy it.
Well... when it arrived I was very pleased as there are more patterns in there that I like than I thought.
So this book is going to keep me busy, just like Knitting Lingerie Style will keep me busy.
Now only the yarns, that will take a bit of time, as I want to order some from Elann.

Ravelry discovery

A few days ago I found a great designer on Ravelry. Her name is Renee Leverington. She designs pagan inspired garments. Most of them have lacy knitting in them. The socks are really cool too. they have nice cables, I love cables.

Well my other favorite designer is also on Ravelry, so that is really cool. Her name is Joan McGowan-Michael. She designs lingerie inspired garments, including bra's and panties. Most of the garments that are shown here are designs by her.

Gorgeous Finnish pattern

Just have a look at the following link:
http://www.ullaneule.net/0207/ohjeet_minttumaari.html

I just sooo wish I could read Finnish. I will give it a shot to see how far I can get, I have tried online translations, but no, that doesn't work very well, most words stay Finnish.
If there is anybody reading my blog that can help me out, please feel free to contact me. I am no good at Finnish so far.

2 Comments - Show Original Post

filambulle said...

I don't know finnish either, but really if you can find some similar pattern like maybe the flower basket shawl, I think it would be easy to just put this site's charts into another shawl pattern.
I like this one too, and may choose it as my next lace project. Maybe we could work through this together?
I have just discovered you and your blog on ravelry, so I am not sure if my comment is helpful to you or not. But if you are not in a hurry (I am very busy) I may be able to help better.

10 December 2007 16:08

Lytse Poppe Baby Care - Diana said...

In the meantime I have found a translation to the pattern, I will post it on the blog.

21 December 2007 14:52

Wool soaker

I just found a nice pattern for a wool soaker. I will make that one soon for our new baby to be and see how well it works.
The pattern is for a larger child, but I will simply make it smaller.

This is the pattern, its ribbed:

#3,5 / 3,75 needles. Worsted wool

Cast on 52 stitches.

Do 8 rows in K2,P2 ribbing.

Do an eyelet row (k2,yo, p2tog) *this row is optional for drawstring

K2,p2 for 16-18 more inches

Do an eyelet row again if you want the drawstring

K,2,p2 for 8 more rows.

Cast off.

Stitch up the sides leaving a hole on each side for baby's legs.

Cuffs: You can add cuffs if desired by picking up stitches around the leg holes. Make sure that the # of stitches is divisible by 4 and do a K2,P2 rib. Make sure you have enough stitches or the cuffs will be too tight. The cuffs can be quite loosely, that is no problem, just make them long enough. You can also try the soaker without cuffs.

November 2007 - Marta

Marta is cool to knit, I am making one in dark purple for myself and one in light blue for may daughter. But cannot continue right now, need some help first, as I stated in my previous post of today.

Need help.

I have come to a level of having to make out of a certain amount of stitches another amount, and this on 3 of my projects. As I know I am not too wonderful with doing that bit of math, I always ask my partner to help me out with this. Unfortunately he is a bit busy right now, so I will have to wait before I can continue. Somehow I have no patience. But there is still another project that I can continue with, so I won't have to be bored.

First I will continue now with some sewing, as I need to make some maternity trousers, as I don't have many fitting trousers any more :-)

After that I will make another blouse and then continue with undies for several family members :-)

November 2007 - Alene

I have started knitting another project, as Nicole is virtually finished. I need to put buttons on Nicole, but have to wait until after baby is born, as I cannot really fit it very well now.
So I have started knitting Alene from White Lies Designs, a very very nice pattern, very easy to knit. I am in the meantime 2/3 done already with the top. After that the boyshort, which should be really easy as well.
Somehow I am totally in love with the designs of Joan McGowan-Michael. She is actually one of the few designers that I really like most of the collection of, this is very rare for me, as I am really picky.

Shrug for Anna

Somewhere in between I have knit a light blue shrug for my little girl. That was also really easy, it was a very easy pattern to start with, really for beginners. She loves it.

October 2007 - Nicole

With the parcel of september I had 2 yarn packs next to some loose patterns. The other pack was for Nicole, this was in black as well, this time a really dark bright black, as I am not really a peachy girl. I am working on that now and have since Sunday ended up going throw it really fast, I am halfway getting it finished now. The making up excluded with that. I do expect it to be done early November. It is done in the meantime (23/11/2007). I do have to add the buttons on the back however, and will wait with that for a while, until after baby is born, as now I cannot really make it fit the way I would like it to fit.

September 2007 - Sophia Baby Doll and Boyshort

In september 2007, after receiving another shipment from White Lies Designs, I started knitting Sophia Baby Doll and Boyshort in black. Again, really easy and quick knitting, at home educators gatherings, while watching tv, which ever. Its done since yesterday, completely put together with all ribbon and feathers and all on there. I did decide that I wanted to crochet the rims in another colour though, as fully black was not my thing this time.

July 2007 - Lucy's Chemise Nightie

As Trish and Monica went so smooth, I decided to continue with the designs from White Lies Designs that I liked. So I bought Lucy's Chemise Nightie and started knitting in July 2007. This was also really easy, it really surprised me how quick and I easy I manage to knit it. It was done in 3 to 4 weeks, just the odd moment knitting while watching tv or something. I have made this is cherry red. I am not really into peach, so cherry red worked better for me. As soon as I have pictures of my own made garment I will add those as well.

April 2007 - Trish & Monica

In april 2007 I started knitting Trish's Mini-Basque Corselette with the matching Monica's lace stockings. I thought it would be really difficult, as it doesn't look like its easy to knit, but to my surprise it was actually relatively easy to knit, therefore I was done with both projects in about 6 weeks times. I only knit during bits and pieces on evenings and weekends, sometimes while playing one of my online games. That is how easy it was, and it looks gorgeous. The material is also really cool. Its Fixation from Cascade. I really love it. I want to try a similar material from Elann.com, and knit the same set in black some day, with red ribbon and see how that material is.