Santa'sSecretSilverSet

Ho Ho Ho! I've knit a hat! I used Cewec's Silver Soft yarn (100% acryl) (100g = 330 meters) and Novita's apple green 7 veljestä yarn  (75% wool, 25% polyamide) (150g = 300m). This Silver Soft yarn was  left over from BlanketNo3 and I have used it for this Xmas Secret.

It was nice to knit this hat. It has double sided fore head part to block out the arctic wind and warm up the head. I used HorseShoeCable knitting at the front side which goes around like a band. I used SingleCables to decorate the head part. The SingleCables decorate also The Woollen Socks and The Mittens.

It all is Santa's Secret Silver Set for Young Lady's Xmas 2015 

My Very Special Own Design

Home Hand Love Made

Santa'sSecretMittens

Santa'sSecretSocks got mittens too. All my own design.

I really really L O V E them. I really needed to knit them to look different.

For your special ones it is always wonderful to give HappyHomeMadeGifts.

I am going to buy leather gloves under them to make the mittens to be wind proof and much warmer. I really would like to find white leather gloves. That perhaps will be my challenge for this Xmas.

Santa'sSecretSocks

Socks are now finished.

This is how they look in rainbow and apple green shades.

Happy Warm Socks ! ! !

my own design

BUT... it is going to be a set of something. Later on we'll see what.

Knitting socks again

Do you remember BlanketNo3? One ball was left over from it. I have been thinking what to do with it. I had several options and always changed my mind. Now I took that Cewec's Silver Soft yarn (100% acryl, 100g = 330 meters) and decided instead of HomeDecorationStuff Young Lady will get ClothDecorationStuff of it by the next Christmas.

Cewec's Silver Soft itself is useless as woollen socks. But I figured out I could knit parts of accessories by using Silver Soft. The yarn is useless in socks because it doesn't include wool at all and won't stand hard use. So I decided to mix it with apple green Novita 7 veljestä yarn (75% wool, 25% polyamide, 150g = 300meters). My own desing with delicius shades.

BlanketNo3

So it all started -MyBigXmasSecret-. It all started because of one ball of Cewec's Silver Soft yarn. (100% acryl, 100g = 330 meters). Little Lady wanted to buy one ball of it at my favourite yarn shop very many months ago. She never ended up doing something of it. When she had forgot it I found myself from the sofa with it.

Sooner than I realised it had turned out to be 5 big Granny Squares. Ooops. I had destroyed her yarn.

But the accident was so extremely beautiful that I wanted more. You know; it is the same with chocolate. You just taste a bit and then you notice it all is gone....

So, there I was; deeper than deep in the trouble. See, despite of all the hard work lovely ladies at Pieni lankapuoti were not able to find or get me more of it. I phoned to several yarns shops selected by the cities I have friends -yes, very tactical- to find out in Oulu they had it. At the end my friend L brought it to me from her journeys to Oulu.

I needed also some white about which you find more about my latest yarnaholic confession.

Well, this is not a secret anymore and I can tell -like we all- Little Lady loves her VerySpecialBlanket. She was curious to know how I managed to do it so hide because we are always together. Well, she forgot she goes to school and I don't work out of house all the time. So, it was not a problem. Pile of Granny Squares kept growing higher slowly but surely...

...until I was at this point. Little Lady -like you too- was curoius to know where I was hiding the blanket so that she never crashed at it. Well, that for sure I am not going to tell anyone otherwise I will lost my VerySecretPlaces.

At this point when all of 32 squares were finished Mr W was very helpful by letting me in and swapping the squares from a place to another until it all looked satisfying.

So here it is

My Very Own Design

BlanketNo3

E N J O Y

M Y

D E A R

F R I E N D S

And no, it was not a huge job to tidy all those loose end yarns because (see the begin of this post) att those beautiful shades come from one sinlge ball. Simple, fast and rewarding. Yes, traditionally Granny Squares are made of left over yarns and it would have been cheaper to use them. BUT, one ball cost about 6€ but it had 330meters of yarn and I needed just 6 balls of it (plus this white) so at the end the cost were not huge. Neither the time because I saved my precious hours by using this kind of yarn. I -truly warmly- can recommend it.