Thursday 26 February 2015

Warm Socks

This pair of woollen socks goes to my very private car mechanic.

For the blue stripes I used Novita's 7 brothers yarn (75% wool, 25% polyamide). The grey yarn is 100% wool with which I had to negotiatie a bit to get it all winded up. But luckily my mechanic is animal lover so few cat hair -if any can be found- won't do any harm.

These socks look similar to striped ones. Both are my own design but these are a bit warmer because of that 100% wool grey stripes. 100% yarn is not as lasting as woolmix with 25% polyamide. But look how I used the yarns. The heel is big and heel and toe parts are from the wool mix. Plus I knit thin stripes to make the structure more lasting.

Sunday 22 February 2015

BunnyNews

 We have had shearing weekends.
This is Mr Gynter himself. He really enjoys me using scissors to cut his wool. He stands so still and makes pleased sounds. He really doesn't like to be angora rabbit with long wool. This time I took him to take his wool off two weeks earlier what comes to the schedule. He stopped most of eating and just sulked. After shearing I scratched him with the  hard comb and he was so so happy that I almost heard him laughing! In the middle of the shearing he looked like a robot vaccuum cleaner with customised duster at the bottom.

This is Viola. See too is standing or laying very still when shearing. Most of all she loves me to cut her face wool off. Rather at first. This is the position in which we have found best to shear the stomach side. I hold and he cuts. I myself find it a bit difficult because they get so relaxed that they get heavier and so soft that I feel they are slipping through my hands. Despite of her teenage pregnancy (which was a terrible accident) she has grown well. She weights now 3,7kg. After stopping breast feeling the kits she had still unlimited access to food and that seemed to help her to catch the desired growth.

About Lulu's shearing operation I don't have any pics because I was doing it alone and forgot the camera. And when shearing the stomach side I didn't think about the camera but just holding her because we had some problems. She fell asleep every now and then and then she always suddenly woke up and got spooked up where she was. During the time she got used to it but still she became so limp that I really need to pay all my attention on holding her instead of dropping. She was really cute! Almost snored! I also forgot to weight Lulu because of this falling asleep syndrome. I'll do it on some other day.

Little Pernilla weights now 2,3kg. She was -as usual- very suspicious about the operation. She's been in once before when she was 10 weeks old. But then she was very small and scared so I cut just a bit and cuddled a lot. Now she needed to go through it all. I let her watch what was going on and took her after finished with the others. And she again did so fine. After that she has not been so scary and timid. Perhaps she understood that nothing bad happens to her and this is what it is up of being an angora rabbit in ethic production. I bet she has heard the news about horrible industrial angora rabbit farms. Poor one. Now she knows her life is different. She loved shearing a lot and since that she has been very friendly, active and initiative towards me when I daily go in their box for cleaning and feeding.

Sleipnir weights 2,1kg. 200g less than Pernilla. I bet it is because she is very hyperactive. Always galloping wild around. She doesn't like to be on his back when shearing the stomach. But when she is put in the way that she can see the world around she accepts it and relaxes. She too had to be sheared all over. Unfortunately I don't have proper pic of her yet in her new coat. Her wool has strated to fade from black to grey but it still was surprisingly dark after shearing.

And here's one more pic for you. Sulo and Rumpali. Rumpali is on the right. His upper pic doesn't show the right blue shade. And the other pics are a bit too lilac. But they both are blue. Also they face full shearing. And loved it. I think it eases their life and feeling. When they notice it they let you to do it easy. We don't tie them up. They just stand on the table and then lay on the arms. They don't fight or bite. They are used to handling and us. Of course that helps a lot too. We never hurt them or scare them so they trust in us despite we'd do something new to them.




Thursday 19 February 2015

FUN - NO - FUN - NO!

This is 100% Finnsheep wool bought few years ago from a spinnery. It has the natural colour. I was given 1kg of it to do my magic and make it to disappear. I was home alone -not alone- but felt very alone with it all. It was in skeins and I needed to wind it up. Easy to say. But the disaster happened and it all got mixed up. Well, not all, just one 100g skein... But it felt like all...

No, oh no, no, no no. She had nothing to do with it. Or had she? But I found her by following the yarn...

She was not interested about it at all. But it took me for 2 hours to roll it all up to a ball and then wind it up with the yarn winder. She was lurking in the shadows and somehow the yarn changed a place...

Eventually I caught her. 
Or did I? 
Noooo, yep, nooo...

Tuesday 17 February 2015

Windy Days

This BlanketNo4 begins to get a bit bigger so it warms me up when crocheting it.
For few days it has been stormy.
I have been busy like the wind.
But still I had time to make few more rows.

I really like this Sirdars's Babouska yarn. 
I can not be thinking how it might look as knitted. 
Very fluffy, I bet.

It is going to be long, full size blanket.

Here it is where I stand with it at this very moment.

My own design.





Friday 13 February 2015

Blinks of the Sun

First blinks of the sun have arrived.

We all love the sun.

But sun blinks are not good for the ones
who have photosensitive epilepsy.

She is very tired with TheCat and its weird action
because of the light effects in her brains.
But she
-TheGranny-
has official veterinarian permission to sleep on couch.
When she does it...

...I need to photograph my projects elsewhere.





Thursday 12 February 2015

An Old Jacket

I got and old jacket.

I was very grateful.
I took my scissors...
...and cut it to small pieces.

I took the pieces
and mixed them up
with my imagination.

I had a bit fun with Helga.

And that is how I got two new pillows.
They are woollen and warm!

Tuesday 10 February 2015

This is not

This is not a political statement but an opinion of it how fair you can collect money for your election campaign.

If you use Facebook take a look at Sari Kyllönen who sells budget woollen socks to fund her action.

She and volunteers do the craft and you can buy it. No matter will you vote her or support her ideas; there's still a way to buy budget warm woollen socks if you can not knit and have not much money to buy.

Saturday 7 February 2015

Path of the Wind

Perhaps you have seen this picture on my blog before...

It is up to Sirdar's Babouska yarn.
(52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon)
(50g=115m)

 I made the map of the shades and stripes to see
how I want it all to be.

Here it is.
TuulenPolku
Path of the Wind
BlanketNo4 design
My own design
And this is how it goes.

Tuesday 3 February 2015

Crochet brooch

On the other day I crocheted flowers which ended up like this.

I used left over yarn and recycled buttons.

I made three of them.

On each back side is pin like this. I fastened it by tacking.

Easy and fast gift idea!

My own design.

PS. If you are round about Suomussalmi 
go to take a look at my exhibition there at Galleria Kieppi. 
More info at OnTour site.



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