BabyBlanketNo6

From my treasure box of yarns I found Sirdar's baby snowball yarn (100% polyester) (50g = 25m). I had two balls of green and one blue. I bought them to crochet something PrettyBaby but it turn out not so pretty at all. Now I bought Novita's Balladi (100% wool) (100g = 107m) to be knit with Sirdar's baby snowball yarn.

It all turn out much better looking BabyBlanketNo6. Sirdar's yarn is pure polyester so Novita's 100% wool yarn creates more warmth with pretty baby snowballs.

I knit the central part and decorated the edges by crocheting.
I designed the blanket while making it.

Of course TheCat wanted to pose with it... or sleep with it...

Babouska LegWarmers

For BlanketNo4 I used Sirdar's Babouska yarn (52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon) (50g=115m). From the left over yarn I already knit BabouskaSocks. And now I knit LegWarmers and used rest of the yarn. I do have liked this Babouska yarn. It is so warm, soft and fluffy.

To make them look even more fluffy I gently brushed LegWarmers by brand new nail brush. I do know they sell mohair brushes but they are so expensive in MyWorld. So just to be curious I decided to try out normal nail brush; bought only for my craft use of course. I can tell it worked out very well.

No, these are not mine despite they fit well with MyBlanket. They are for DearR. who definitely is a red person and sparkles in all the colors. This is part of the craft challenge I am in. I am happy to tell first part Done&Delivered in the challenge.

BabouskaSocks

Now I finished the woollen socks I just started.

I used Novita's beige shade Nalle yarn (100g = 260m) (75% wool, 25% polyamide) for the foot part. This yarn was left over from the project BlanketNo2. The fluffy yarn is Sirdar's Babouska (52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon) (50g=115m) and left over from the project BlanketNo4.

Special gift for my mother-in-law on her comming birthday.

My own design.

Exciting moments

Do you remember BlanketNo4?

I used Sirdar's Babouska yarn (52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon) (50g=115m) for it. Something was left over too. Now I picked up these shades of it; white, beige and grey and made again one more my own design.

I had very exciting moments in knitting. Would it all be enough?

I knit them at the same time to avoid disaster.

And yes, it was enough! This is what was left over! Not much at all. These are going to be woollen socks. Because Babouska's twist is not strong enough I will use another yarn for the foot part of the socks. Later on you'll see the result. :)

BlanketNo4

 Do you remember how it all started?

On the moment when we had just Blinks of the Sun and Roars of the Coastal Wind over arctic.

My own design.

BlanketNo4.

Tuulen Polku.

Path of the Wind.

It all was like climbing the stairs.

A journey.

I used Sirdar's Babouska yarn. (52% wool, 39% acrylic, 9% nylon) (50g=115m) I found it from the sale basket at our local yarn shop Pieni lankapuoti. Just 1€ per ball. Finished blanket weights almost exactly 1kg so the yarns costed just 10€. But all the time spent with it takes almost exactly 50 hours...

Spring and BlanketNo4

I was afraid of it all would look far too Christmas-like but no, not at all. And you can use different shades in decoration when you want to lift up some shade of it. The six shades I used are red, red wine, white, green, grey and beige. Quite untypical for me but later later on you'll see how this decoration project goes slowly on; later on the summer perhaps.

HalfWay

Here we are, 

at the halfway 

with the BlanketNo4

Tuulen Polku

(Path of the Wind)

And for sure She knows that is not allowed.

Not at all!

Still she finds her way on it

where ever when ever

I forget to collect it all away.

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.

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.

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.