Another pair of WarmHands

These ones go to my friend Mrs L. who brought me apples some time ago. Thanks to her friendly aid - that has nothing to do with apples- the start of this rough week was easier and faster.

My own design, similar with previous hand warmers. This is also Novita's Säde yarn; with white shade.

Picnic

Oh it was such rough week which included bad surprise with a lot of extra work. I have been very brave and at the end -when it all eased a bit but was not over yet- I was invited for a picnic.

The invitation was for Me, MyBike and treasures from Deli.

We biked through paths which sometimes were overgrown...

...dreamlike...

...or forestalled. (He removed the fallen tree so that eldery people can still keep on using this path when outdooring.)

Our picnic went on by the sea shore and tiny reservoirs.

We across several bridges.

Some of them were steady to cycle over.

Some of them were sloping and made you want to prevent falling into the cold sea.

Some of them were just tiny dam.

There was a spruce hugging a birch (what a love affair).

No, I was not picking up the mushrooms despite all the books of them tell you to pick up only the ones you know and advises you to learn to recognize the poisonous ones...

There was many charming places for your picnic.

Benches on different places...

...which were made of different materials...

...or created by log floating and left there afterwards for another purposes...

...or emptied of the boats for the winter...

We picked up this one; far enough from everything by the foggy scene.

We enjoyed about the moment and rested for a while before returning to the reality and finishing the hard extra work.

We brought home some wood for smoking which we found from the forest. We had no rope so he made one to fasten the wood.

WarmHands

I had to pick up CarryOnProject. It is -as usual- my own design. But easy to make true by almost anyone.

I knew what I wanted to do and for whom so it was easy to choose the right yarn from my storage. It is Novita's Säde (58% acrylic, 28% polyester, 7% mohair, 7% polyamide). I used left over yarn from my FirstKnittingChallenge. I really love these photos we made so I show you several ones just to let you enjoy about the light and shadows of autumn morning by the Arctic Circle.

By the edge

I finally reached the red stripe at the other edge! 

All the way from the left edge to the right one. I still am not there; at the end of the edge. But I feel like a winner already. Three more loop stitch rows with beige (notice: by now I have opened the loop stitches) and then three more rows with blue loop yarn. THEN I can concentrate on framing edges and finishing!

The next blanket project -BlanketNo3- will be done by this yarn. It is 50g ball...

...and I have 22 of them... in 6 shades...

(It was a really good bargain; just 1€ per ball!!!)

Yes, I already know what I want but have no idea -yet- how...

Furry loops

Past days I have been working so hard with my BlanketNo2.

It is progressing well, I am comming to the other edge where I meet again the FurryForestFeeling with green shades.

There are shades of spring, summer, autumn and even winter green...

...shades of forest paths and gray with all the dreams from granite to goat...

All the loops form out such soft surface that calls you to wrap in when it is getting freezing cold arctic night.

The front side is striped with loops.

The back side reminds simple basic crochet surface. But, I tell you secret of warmth; when it is really really cold I will wrap in outside in. Yes, outside in. When the loops come between you and the outer world they store the warmest feeling ever; because they create air pockets which keep the cold outside.

Yes, I am almost there. It still needs 10 hours of work to get to the other edge. But when I'll finally be there I can start to crochet the outer edging which will frame the blanket.