Once I start, I start. There is no stopping me. The original idea was actually something completely different: yarn bought, project started, then “no, this still is not right”, another idea, another yarn, another start and more unravelling. I did have one very definite idea, though, and had bought yarn for it. My first…
Once I got going with the knitting, I really went for it and knitted for everyone. Vests for the boys, a cardigan for my daughter-in-law, and then I suddenly got a strong urge to make something for myself too. I remembered that a very long time ago I had knitted myself a cardigan that I…
I had been thinking for ages about making myself a dress, but I never got as far as the dress, only a skirt. Then it seemed to me that I did not own a single top that would go with the skirt, so naturally I had to make one of those as well. Getting started…
In a winter mood…
The knee-high socks are knitted on 3 mm double-pointed needles using Alize Forever crochet thread. That was one big mistake: the thread is slippery and the needles keep falling out. I had to unravel and redo so much and pick up so many dropped stitches. It immediately reminded me that in Soviet times there used…
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,…
I started knitting the cardigan from the neckline. I cast on 56 stitches and knitted 6 rows in garter stitch. On row 7 I began the leaf pattern. The pattern repeat on the first row is 4 stitches. Once the leaves were finished, I added the blue yarn. I knitted 3 stitches in pink and…
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…
