In the summer of 2006, my family went on holiday without me and I had to work, but in the evenings I had nothing to do, so I made a few skirts that summer (three). This post I about my favorite of the three of them.
It is black with some red silk bands. It was very easy to make. All I had was a bit piece of black fabrick. All I did was to first cut two pieces who when sewed together went around my hips. And on top of this piece I added some strechy band. So that it would stay at my hips and didnt fell down. Then I cut two pieces who were a bit wider and taller. I stiched long stiches on top of this and the dragged the tread a bit, so that the fabrick got as wide as the piece above, then I sewed that pice together and then sewed in onto the previous piece. And this I did with the rest of pieces, until my skirt was wide and tall enough for me. It is kind of hard to explain :P
On the bottom of the skirt I have sewed on some tulle to make the edge a bit puffy. Then when I was done with that I sewed onto some red silk bands to cover up the seam between the pieces I sewed together.
Done !
Below are pictures of me with the skirt, and the skirt alone.
During the fall, when it starts to get colder in Norway, my boyfriend and I was walking a lot outside, and it was very cold to hold hands and neither of us had any warm mittens. So I decided to knit some, and a smitten as well. A smitten is two mittens knit together as one mitten with two openings.
I found the pattern in a knitting magazine. “Sandnes Julehefte” (Sandnes ( a yarn type) Christmasmagazine). I was too eager to get started knitting, so I didn’t bother checking my gauge, so the mittens apear to be a bit long. . . But they are comfy nonetheless.
Below is a pictures of my boyfriend with the mittens, the smitten and closer up of the mittens and the smitten.
In the beginning of may my boyfriend I went travelling to his mums family down south in Skien. It was a 12-hour trip, so I had decided to knit something during the trip there and back again. I choosed to knit these easy armwarmers (I dont think they are called that, but I cant seem to find the right english name). They are very short, because that was what my guinea pig wanted (Johnny).
The pattern is quite easy, all I did was to cast on 30 stiches on a needle. And then I knitted in this pattern: 1 round, 1 purl round, 1 purl round, 1 round. Then I knitted 5 stiches, then I bind off 4 stiches and continued on round. When the second round started I knitted until the hole I made in the previous round, and I added 4 stiches, making the number of stiches back to 30. Now there is a hole there to the thumb. Then I just continued on round number 3 and 4. And from the beginning again (except the hole thing). Continued until the desired width was aquired. Quite easy :) Then I sewed it together. Done !
The picture below is my boyfriend with his new gloves.
A closer-up onto the armwarmers:
In the month before easter my boyfriend lost his scarf, and requested me to make him one. I happily obliged to do it, seeing as I needed something new to knit on.
My boyfriend is a geek, so the pattern had to be geek. Now it was a little tricky to find something easy to knit, and yet geeky and him. I finally figured out that the mascot to his Operating System, Linux, would be awesome. It is a penguin.
I made the pattern with a blank graph paper and a picture of the penguin. I held the picture and graph paper up against a lamp and then I drew the outline. I bought the yarn needed, it is wool, not too thick and it is not the thinnest. In the colors of black, white and orange.
One problem though, how to make the backside of the scarf pretty as well? I solved it by making it like one foot had one thread and the other foot another thread. It got pretty messy after awhile, seeing as I had decided to make a white outline of the penguin. At one point I had 11 different threads ! Later I have realised that the white outline should have been sewed on when the scarf was done, oh well, lesson learned.
Below is the picture of my boyfriend with his new scarf.
A closer-up of the pattern.
The backside of the scarf
I had to copy and paste my other blog posts from another page. It would not let me import it. :P Looks a bit messy. But from now on, I shall only write here :P