I learnt how to knit the hedgehog stitch and naturally had to put my new skill to use immediately. What could be simpler than baby booties and a hat 🙂 Booties I cast on 40 stitches. Rows 1 and 2 – knit Row 3 – edge stitch, yarn over, knit 18, yarn over, knit 2,…
I’m writing this down while it is still fresh because I forget things terribly quickly. I really needed this pattern and the instructions were in Russian. I asked a Russian woman to translate them, but she only gasped and said she could not translate such specialised text into Estonian. So I copied bits from the…
I have no idea. I cannot even guess where that name came from. The idea and instructions are from Facebook’s Käsitöö group. I used thick sock yarn and 3 mm needles. The needles should probably have been larger, but I wanted a dense result and I knit quite tightly as well. Row 1: edge stitch,…
A very long time ago, nineteen years ago to be exact, I knitted a set like this for my youngest son, and a year ago for my grandchild. I like it so much that when a colleague wanted a set for her grandchild, I decided to make the same kind again. The difference is that…
I still have supplies of homespun wool from the days when my mother kept sheep in the countryside and we used to take the wool to be exchanged for yarn. We dyed it ourselves, using all sorts of methods, including making it multicoloured simply by tying sections of the yarn. What remains now are mostly…
Next it was time to knit mittens. The first pair in my long life. I had never needed to because my mother knitted every kind of glove: plain ones, patterned ones, fingerless gloves, mittens and finger gloves. I would not have started now either, but a good friend asked whether I could make a pair…
