TogetherTo2026

In 2025 happened several things I didn't (yet) find time to tell you about. One occasion was right in the middle of November 15.11.2025 when I had a Spinning Saturday with friends at Elina's Farm Old Leinonen. The pictures of this post have been taken at Elina's farm.

Gathering together with friends is important and actually during 2025 I have been paying more attention on my human relationships. During covid-19 it was ok not to meet your friends face-to-face. But covid-19 is gone so it is time to confess who still has time to share with me. None of us has many good close friends. I do have few extremely good friends far away with whom I write long letters. The ones I have here I want to see. If one never finds time to me it is sad but honest act. That's why I have refused to deliver mail box gifts and send Christmas or birthday cards to persons never seem to find time to see me. I am busy too, I do understand. But I never am too busy to see if someone wants to fade away from my life. It is time to open and close up...

Even harder times are ahead. Unfortunately they will reach all of us, near and far. In good and bad.The window to 2026 has finally opened. I make sure I won't let the frost in. I love frost but its place is outside. I never make New Year's Resolution(s) but sometimes I see if there is a place for a change. Now I see there is. One thing is that I really want to finish my upcoming book next year. 

In our Spinning Saturday in November I had a change to try out this modern style wheel spindle. I was satisfied with it and can warmly recommend it if you seek one. Also the owner of this wheel spindle has been satisfied and happy with it.

It is a low budget modern wheel spindle Woolmakers Bliss (ScT). It still is worth of hundreds of Euros but not at all as expensive as many other. 

ToddlerSnowBallDress

I sew also this amazing SnowBallDress by using PaaPii's Pattern Book for Children. By using the same pattern I sew also ToddlerMerinoWoolDress. In this dress I used all the parts: also the sleeves and wedges. Also this is 110 cm size. 

Also this has home made bias tape decoration so I crated similar slit at back with sew-on-snaps than I did with the merino wool dress. It is a velvet like jersey fabric with fingertip sized balls. It really was not the easiest fabric I've sewn. I have no idea about the manufacturer because I bought it years ago at local fabric shop that doesn't exist anymore. 

The design is simple and changes a lot depending a lot of it what material you use and how you sew it. This dress was the biggest success of the Yule 2025! 

It really is not Elsa's dress from Frozen but has been called that since it was completed. Somehow it seems a dress Elsa from Frozen would wear! 

ToddlerMerinoWoolDress

Oh where have I been these 16 days since my last post? At home. We received longed and wished welcome visitors to stay over YuleTide 2025 since early morning 14.12.2026. We still have some all the way until 4.1.2027 but now I am at home alone with the dogs so I found some time to chat with you my dear reader. 

See the picture above. There's one of gifts I've made for Yule 2025. It is 100 % merino wool decorated with Yule themed cotton fabric and home made bias tape. I love home made bias tape and recommend it to all because by it you really can create personalized details for your sewing. Here you can find HomeMade BiasTape-tutorial.

It is a very simple pattern I modified from PaaPii's Pattern Book for Children. Yes, it is a Finnish trade mark but they actually sell it also in English. I made this dress from the book: I just did it without the sleeves and wedges. Because I use cotton bias tape I created a slit at back. I made this in the size 110 cm. 

Here you can see it all better. For the fastening I used sew-on-snaps. I left 1 cm loose bias tape to make it easier for big adults to crab on and help with the dress.

Adult Luuhka 2

I made a simple style Forest Sámi Luuhka. 

It is for daily life use for a hunter.

The shades are forest green and green.

In the daily use it has a different kind of brooch for closing up.

AAW Mittens No8

 

I designed and knit also this pair of AAW mittens. I used plant dyed (coffee) AAW yarn (50% our own ethic produced arctic angora wool, 40% ethic produced FinnSheep wool and 10% nylon) (100g = 238m).