Horse dreams

 

My summer project (one of them) was to make a horse to a girl. Only now I remembered add the picture on my blog! It's my own design and I used mostly left over materials. It is a hobby horse whose stick is an old ice hockey stick. It needed a bit fixing and painting.

This is a dream horse of a happy girl! The girl told what she wants. I draw the patterns and sew it. It was fun to do this as a summer project. So I guess I can say also this is my own design. :) I must tell you Reiska is a happy horse who gets a lot of love and attention.

Yarns and chocolate

Some years ago I inherit pile of yarns. Now the bottom of the box can finally be seen. This means I have started to plan to buy more. This box full of all kind of yarns has been super. Every time knitting or crocheting bug arrived to tease me I just needed to open the box and see what to do. I think arranging such a great storage of yarns would be wonderful. I do have a lot embroidery threads on storage but before I inherit someone elses's yarn collection I always had the problem I never had yarn to knit. So that's why it feels just reasonable to fill to box again with basic yarns.

I just hope it won't be like with the squirrels. You collect great storage of stuff and then forget where you put it! But on the other hand it is always a great surprise when you find some. Oh, I didn't know I had this.

See, my sister once forgot she had (like we all have) chocolate on storage. She had hidden it so well that she had lost it and forgot. Once she bought more and hide it to the same place. It was a happy surprise when she notice she already had it storaged for a bad day. So, of course she had now permit to eat the old ones. My advice is that if you remember where your chocolate storage is you can always pretend you don't! :)

Santa Claus factory

Today I received a letter from a friend. She wrote that she guesses I have almost all presents ready already. She knows me so well. What else can I say? Christmas arrives every year. I know it. I love it. And want to relax and enjoy about it. There's pictured only few gifts I have made. But I can tell you, none of them is for you. I updated only the gifts whose owners won't be reading my blog! :)

This bench cover is made of Norwegian Gjestal's Cortina soft 100% wool yarn. It is my own design. I sew woollen fabric lining to the other side to make it feel even more warmer and softer.

This pot holder is also made of Norwegian Gjestal's Cortina soft 100% wool yarn. The design is my own and I used loose end yarn. I crocheted it first and then washed in washing machine to get it felted up. When you felt something it always gets shrinken so it's important to make it big enough.

This pair of woollen sock I knit again from loose end threads of the same trade mark. The colours are Lapland themed. You get easily arctic themed colours by using just basic shades of white, red, green, yellow and blue. I used only white, red and green because I had only them and I didn't want to or need to buy more yarn to get these socks finished. If you look very carefully you can notice I used two shades of white: "natural white" and "blanc" and that seems to work fine.

When I knit socks or mittens I never have design on the paper to follow. It's always my own design in my head. If you use loose end threads, the ones that are left over from some other project, it is easy when you knit both sock at the same time.