Interlaken Pullover

 I had this pattern planned with a different yarn but it didn't work. The yarn was too slippery and the twisted stitches became all tiny and I had ladders on both sides. 

I still had some WYS Aire Valley Essential DK, funny enough grey as the pattern, so I tried that and it worked perfectly. I even had more left over than expected.

Big shout to Anne Hanson for creating this great sweater and the well written pattern. I really enjoyed making it. You can buy it from Ravelry.

PS: It looks a bit wonky because I haven't blocked it yet.

For Hubby

 I've gone all vintage on this. I bought quite a while ago a bag of yarn from the charity shop. That was actually before I started with all the vintage knitting patterns. I stored it away in a box. I didn't forget it. When I bought a job lot of vintage knitting patterns, it included a few patterns that were made for the yarn I have. I have enough for two garments, a slipover and a pullover. The slip over is finished.

And then hubby asked for red socks. Who could deny such a request? Nobody! I added a simple pattern to make the look less boring and it helped me count.

Cable Crazy

 I saw this Debbie Bliss Sweater pattern and I immediately thought, I have to knit this. Now Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK isn't the cheapest yarn, so the hunt began. After 2 days of trying to figure out which yarn could work and wouldn't cost an arm and a leg, I suddenly had a light bulb moment. I remembered I had 20 balls of Bergere de France Ideal DK lying around for 5 + years. I always knew it would one day serve a purpose.

Up the ladder, find the right box, read the label and yippee! it would work.

And I started. After half of the back done, I suddenly realized my brain did an autocorrect and twisted all the cables in the same direction. It never occurred to me that half are left twisted and half are right twisted. And I honestly didn't care. I preferred it my way.

I had to redo one sleeve because I miscounted on the first row, which cause a 2 day delay. But it's done and it looks great. 

Overall Striped

 Striped Overall

Lang Yarns, Acrylic DK

Sweater and Hat

 Baby Sweater and Hat, blue and grey

Deramores Baby DK

Yellow Baby Sweater

 Yellow Sweater

Deramores Baby DK

Pink Dress

Baby Girl Dress in Pink with Baby Pink Borders 2-3 Years

Chest: 26in (flat unstretched)

Length: 14.5in

Sleeves: 4.5in

Hand knitted:

Sirdar Snuggly 100% Cotton DK.

Colour: Shade 755 and 760.

Knitted after a Sirdar pattern.

Yarn:

Sirdar Snuggly 100% Cotton

100% Cotton

Buttons: Plastic

Machine washable by 40°C (delicate wash).

Baby Sweater Yellow

 I think this sweater has been lying around finished without buttons for over 5 years. It never took me that long to attach buttons. 😲😂

Sirdar Snuggly DK, vintage pattern.

Very Green Gloves

 I received this yarn in one of the surprise boxes I bought.

I was looking to make some gloves and found this pattern on Ravelry and thought this yarn would be perfect. And it was. I think they turned out great.

First Socks of 2021

 And the sock knitting carried on 😂

 A pair of Novita Nalle which was needed when you scroll down.

The weather was unusual wintery.

 

And a pair of Debbie Bliss Toast

Lovely sock yarn I have to say. Knits beautifully.

And I hope will keep my toes toasty. 😄

A shot out of our kitchen window. Brrrrr! 😬

History of Trees Shawl

 After all the Advents offers by Deramores I ended up buying the crochet kit for the History of Trees shawl.

I worked with this yarn before but never finished the Hygge Shawls. I found Scheepjes Stone Washed too heavy to be comfortable. It probably would have ended to become a table runners and not stoles. So I sold the lot a few years ago.

I was a bit apprehensive about using the same yarn again because it's rather a heavy yarn. But this shawl uses a lot of treble stitches so I thought why not.

The pattern is available here

Here is the result:

Across the Pond Cowl

 The lovely ladies from "Always Knitting and Sewing" showed during their podcast this cowl made from Stylecraft Dream Catcher and Stylecraft Highland Heathers yarn.

It just loved it. I have already two colours of Dream Catcher yarn leftover so I just needed the two contrast colours.

The pattern is available here

Dream Catcher 2

 My second Dream Catcher Sweater.

Pattern: Stylecraft 9597

Yarn: Stylecraft Dream Catcher Arapaho 3955

It's just such a lovely soft yarn 💗

Sweater for Mum

 Instead of knitting it at home and have to pay a ludicrous amount of postage to get it to my mum I thought I bring the yarn and knit it while we're staying at my mum.

Yarn: Hayfield Bonus Glitter Shade 236

Pattern: Hayfield Bonus 10023

It's not my favourite yarn to be honest. I kept catching the silver thread. I always do with these kinds of yarn. And it's so annoying.

Quarantine Sweater

 I finished the sweater for hubby within the 10 days of quarantine. I think I took way too much yarn with me. Doesn't matter. The plane will carry it back home again. 😂

I didn't knit as much as I would if we were at home anyway. No comfy chair. Besides it's DK yarn so that's slower anyway.

Pattern: Stylecraft 9653

Yarn: Stylecraft Life DK Gorse Nepp 2337