Internet withdrawl :(

I've spent the last few days first at my dad's and then at my mother's, helping her move into her new place. I hate moving, I've told her that she isn't allowed to move for another 10 years... at least ;=)

I've almost finished my green hat for the Green Hat-along at Get Stitchy, I used fisherman's wool that I dyed with green and yellow Koolaid. It looks awesome, the pattern is called the Greenery Hat which I don't have a link to because I'm sitting at my mother's cousin's computer. I can't finish the hat until I go home because I didn't bring any dpns... I feel so stupid!

On other news, I've only got another ~15cm left of the body of my Tubey (and it's soooo boring to knit it!)

No photos, sorry. Left the cable thing at home.

Getting tired of the Tubey

I was really sick and tired af my Tubey this weekend and I really didn't do much towards finishing it. I tried my hand at the February sock instead, we're all supposed to use the Universal toe-up sock formula from Knitty and ofcourse I couldn't figure it out so I cheated... a little, I found a Finnish toe-up pattern and modified it a bit to fit the yarn I'd chosen (hideous baby yarn I bought in a moment of weakness). I have to say I'm not loving this toe-up method all that much, might just knit one and blame second sock syndrome...

Almost free

I've got an almost two week long holiday coming up, all I have to do is to study for a test and write a report over the weekend, take the test on Monday, go to a lecture on Tuesday and then I'll have 12 days of knitting to look forward to!

I've finished the first sleeve of my Tubey and I've knit about 10cm (4 inches) of the second one *yay* Not bad considering I started it about 7 days ago, huh? No pictures at this point though, couldn't get a good one of the whole thing so I gave up (for now).

Did you know that Finns use the most yarn in the world? Apparently we Finnish knitters buy enough to give every person in the country (give or take 5 million) 200g!

Also, I only just realized that Blogger has a spellchecking feature...

Tubey update

I'm about halfway done on the first sleeve, looking pretty good if I do say so myself! This isn't the most up to date photo of it but I was offered a free dinner today and I'm as big as a house now... so no photos :)

I have to do a presentation tomorrow... guess who forgot all about it until now? Good thing the topic is free so I'm going to tell my classmates about the intresting world of internet knitters and knitting blogs. And show them all of my "cool" knitting books and magazines. If I get really desperate I'll show them some UFO's and FO's. The teacher will probably find tons of faults in my presentation though :( She's been picking on me since the day she realized, that my primary education has been in swedish and not finnish like everyone else in my class.

Late night knitting

I was inspired yesterday and started knitting my Tubey, I've got 14 cm done so far! I'm obviously using the same yarn as I used for the Calorimetry and I think I'll go for a solid red one instead of a stripy one.

I found this blog entry through craftster and now I have a nifty progress bar on my blog!

Calorimetry 3.0

I knit myself a third calorimetry, since I gave the blue one to a friend (blue isn't really my colour.) So technically it's my second one :)
It's Novita 7 veljestä and my ears are nice and toasty... which is not something I can say for the rest of me, it's really cold both in my flat and outdoors. I'm wearing 3 sweaters, jeans, long johns and two pairs of socks! I'm thinking of putting on a pair of gloves, but it'd make knitting and typing difficult! The other photo is of my friend Susku wearing her new Calorimetry, she seemed very happy with it, which in turn made me happy!




I've decided to join the Green Hat-along at Get Stitchy, I'm about 85% sure of the pattern I want to use. Another thing I've decided is that I'm going to get over the "sweater fear" and knit myself a tubey with black and red stripes.








Let me tell you the story of my first (and so far, only) handknit sweater. It was knit out of quite bulky, mostly acrylic yarn that felt a bit scratchy against my hands as I was knitting it (not a good sign), it was lavender a colour I have since grown to loathe with a passion. The pattern was boring, all stockinette all the time. It was in Finnish so my Swedish speaking teacher was of no help (did I mention I was 13?) what so ever. No one told me I needed to check my gauge before starting it, but since I'd finished the back, front and one of the sleves by that time (after about 4 months of dull knitting) I decided I didn't f*cking care. I knit all the pieces but never got around to seaming the tiny, hideous mess, which then spent about a year in the back of my closet until it was passed on to my grandmother for some reason. Since no one in the family could fit into it by this point, it was forgotten by all. Or atleast me. I have no idea what happened to it after this, I hope she frogged it and used it for some other project (it really would be wrong to throw away free yarn!)

It's been a while

since I last posted. I've been busy lately and my modem died on me last thursday so I've been in internet-withdrawl for the last five days. The first two days were pretty awful, but then I got used to it :)

I don't really have anything to show you guys, since I haven't really done any crafting... aside from teaching myself double knitting. So I thought I might show you something that I've been working on, it's a design assignment for school. I think I'm going to make up a pattern for the sweater, I really quite like it. The drawing isn't quite finished yet, I still have to fix the eyes, add the rest of the texture to the clothes and do a bit of shading. I used a croquis I found on the Threads Magazine website for the body, 'cause it takes me ages to draw an actual person and they all come out looking really skinny. I like the Threads croquis because she looks like a normal woman and not like some skinny model (which is what everyone else in my class prefer to draw.) I almost forgot, the design consists of two parts; a sweater and a dress.