Purple

Annaonthemoon received her birthday surprise, so here are the photos of what I sent.
The socks are somewhat more 'purplish' than the photo would have you believe, but I couldn't get the right shade for some reason. Didn't follow any pattern, made up the pattern as I went along.





I'm quite proud of the Rose's Wrist Warmers, they came out quite nicely. I've still got enough yarn to make another pair, yay! Purple isn't my colour though, so I 'll probably give them to my friend Susku (We both love Dr.Who!) I wish I could have gotten a better photo of the wrist warmers but it 's really difficult to take photos of your own arms (go figure)

Sock wars II

Sock wars is back and this time I found out about it early enough to participate! Yes! I can't wait for it to start, incidentally it starts two days before my birthday. Which happens to coincide with a week long vacation! Meaning I have all the time in the world to knit!!!

I sent out the suprise birthday present to Annaonthemoon last thursday, nearly a week ago. I hope it get's there safe and sound! I'll post the photos once she has received, I'm quite pleased with what I knit and I hope she will be to!

Kool-Aid rules!

I dyed some yarn yesterday, I love playing with Kool-Aid. You never know exactly what the end result will be.
I started out with two skeins of natural white Novita Bambino yarn (100% wool), which I dyed with Grape Kool-Aid. After the dyeing I realized there where a lot of white bits, so I dyed it again with a mixture of Grape and Cherry Kool-Aid. The end reault is not really anything like what I'd imagined, it's better! I'm going to knit a birthday surprise for Annaonthemoon over at Craftster. I can't say what in case she reads this! Her favorite color is purple, hence the color of the yarn.

Edited to add a picture of the yarn wound up in two center-pull balls, I can finally start knitting! Yay!

Been lazy

I finished my Tubey the other day, it's not as itchy as I thought it would be... the only place it really itches a lot is at the back of my neck (and it's kind of driving me crazy!) Lord I hate that photo, but alas it was the best I could do!

I finished the Greenery hat for the KAL ages ago, but I'm only now getting around to posting photos of it.

I sent out two Panta's to my partner panic_paizlee in the Panta swap over at Craftster, I'll post photos of them once she receives.

Christmas at Hogwarts

I received my package from my lovely swap partner Superhooker, she sent me so many great things! If you want to see what she sent go here.

This is an action shots of the ha she sent me! Isn't it awsome!

Postcard swap

I took part in a postcard swap on craftster, these are the cards I received.
The card on the left was sent to me by Listener15 sent, isn't it beautiful? She took the photo herself! I thought I'd lost it but I found it in my scanner when I wanted to scan some postcards I got through postcrossing so I could upload them to Flickr. Unfortunately I couldn't because the scanner kept complaining about something or other, I probably tripped on one of the cords again.... The one on the left is from Knuckstermom. I really like the manga-ish art (or is it anime? or is there a difference, I guess I should find out... at some point)

The Australian card was sent to me by our lovely organizer missmeshell. I like animal cards, especially exotic ones. I'm probably never going to get to go to Australia but atleast I have a post card from Australia :)
Cassafrass sent me this card, if I remember correctly it is part of a drug awarness campaign in the US. And it's always good to know where you're going.

And last but not least is the card I received from shelikesstars.
Looks like a good apple :) I've never been to Washington (I've never been to a lot of places) but I think I have some distant relatives living there (like my dad's uncles great-grandchildren or some such)

First post!

So.... The only reason I signed up was to comment on a swap partner's blog but I guess I could upload something while I'm at it :)
My digital camera stoped working months ago so I don't really have any pictures of anything recent but here is a picture of two bags I made months ago.

They are both jordy bags, I think, you can find a tutorial here (it's really easy). In the background you can see my sock monkey Samantha who I also made months ago.

It's father's day in Finland in two days, I haven't had time to make anything special so I'll make him some chocolate fudge and maybe if I have the time knit him up some socks, a man can never have too many socks.

This is a in-progress photo of a bag I made for a swap partner. I didn't take a picture of the finished product because I ran out of film (I'm back to using my stone-age camera these days) and I finished it only 30min or so before sending the package. This is the pattern I used. Funny story, whilst checking if I had remembered to put everything in I found my tv remote inside the bag... You can see the finished bag here, along with all the other stuff I sent. None of the photos show exactly what colour it is, my photo is too light and her's is too dark.

Here is another in-progress photo of a bag I've been sewing for quite a while, I'm sewing it by hand since I am sewing machine-less these days. I doubt I'll finish it any time soon, might take it with me the next time I visit my mum and use her machine. I haven't even bought fabric to line it with. It used to be a pair of really low rise trousers that looked really silly on me, I had to pull them up every two seconds.