During the past two years while I have been in " artisan school" I have also had alot of craft projects that I have done in the evenings. The truth is that I am kinda addicted to crafts. I always need to have some craft project in the works. You would think that after working all day on crafts at school, I would be glad and relieved to just enjoy the evening and relax.
At any rate here a few pictures of the " home crafts that I have done during the past two years".
The Moomi hat and mitts I knit for my great nephew.This particular pattern I have wanted to knit for sometime, but never had anyone to knit it for. It was a fun and easy pattern to knit, andk I hope to have the opportunity to knit it again.
The beautiful fireplace scene was taken by a family member. These socks I knitted for them all and sent to them for a Christmas gift one year.
The pattern in the mittens to the left where a bit of a challenge, but I enjoy challenges. These mittens I gave to a friend.
These red "Dala Mittens" where something that I had admired and always wanted to knit.. Last winter I decided I had enough of my admiring and decided that now was the time to pick up my needles and knit these beautiful mittens. The meaning of Dalahäst means Dala horse.
I love these mittens. I couldn't wait to wear them. The first day I wore them I was sitting on the bus when a woman who was sitting across from me said to me " I love your mittens".. Boy did I beam.. Next winter I am going to make matching wool socks, hey and maybe a hat too..
p.s. I know that this is a Swedish design, and I am finnish, I still love these mittens.
p.s.s. in the past finns and sweds have not gotten along.
Every fall I message my children in Canada to ask if they need socks or mittens knit for the coming winter, and more often than not, I get a list of family members who want my knitted socks.
These socks for my son and his wife. I loved knitting these socks, it was a new pattern that I was trying out. The pattern with the birds is called Kanteletar and the designer is Tiina Kuu the other ones are by the same designer and are called Echoes of Karjala.
These socks were knit for my husbands nephew.
These socks are made from wools that I dyed at school. I also tried a whole bunch of different knitting techniques on them.
On of our friends had a little baby girl, so I knit her a little hat and socks. the pattern on the socks are a " marimekko" pattern.
l found this " santa pattern" many years ago, and fell in love with immediately. I put it into my file of must try, but didn't knit it until our grandson was around 3-4 years old. He was so excited to get these socks, he just loved the elves on the socks.
This has become a sock pattern that I have knit now for many a child... I have probably knit this particular pattern around 8 times. It's a great "stocking stuffer" gift.
I am not a pink person, but have had to buy pink wool for knitting projects for little girls. So, I decided to try to use up all the different pinks I had. In these socks I combined pinks, orange, and grey.
As I have stated earlier I get antsy when I have nothing to do. One evening when I was looking for a project, I looked through me knitting basket, and found that I had a lot of little wool " its and bits" that you couldn't really use in any large projects, so I decided to knit a small pair of socks.. Our youngest son's wife is going to be having a little girl. I wasn't sure if they would like the colourful socks, but they loved them.
I have been racking my brain to think who did I knit these socks for, and I cannot for the life of me remember, but these socks are a pair of many many socks that I have knit.
I like the knitted technique I used on the cuff of the socks.
As you can see here are some of those " Santa's elves" socks that I wrote about earlier.
These socks are gifts for the our neighbours little girls. Every Christmas I make something for all the little children in our apartment block.
These little socks are going abroad. My niece had a little girl.I wanted something very simple and elegant, because that is the what my niece is. These are knit specifically for the Christmas season. White socks and snowflakes.
I haven't knit to many cable knit sweaters for awhile, so I decided to start small and work my way up to adult sizes again.
The two pictures here are of a sweater I knit for my coming grand daughter. I know its to big right now, but she will grow into it.
I did not knit a button opening around the neck like so many children's patterns have. I intentionally knit the collar quite big, so there would not be a struggle for her little head to fit through.
This dress is made for my niece's daughter. I have not knit a dress pattern since I knit my sisters " wedding dress" around 35 years ago. I looked for a long time to find a simple pattern. My niece likes simple yet elegant.
It was also challenging because I could not try on the dress as I knit it, I just had to go by the size chart for toddlers that I found on the internet. This is a picture of the back of the dress.
Here is the front view of the dress. It was a fun and easy dress to make.
My niece sent me pictures recently with the dress on her daughter. It's a bit big, but that is perfect it will fit her perfectly this fall.
This project once again started with me having nothing to do in the evenings, so I went through my knitting basket, and found more of those small balls of leftover wool from previous projects. I had enough wool to make this sweater.
This sweater is for our grand daughter. She has not been born yet, but anytime now. This is gonna be large for her, but she will grow into it.
This is a picture of the back of the sweater. The wool used here, is remnants of wool that I dyed in school. Its a multi coloured sweater.
One Christmas I was racking by brains for what to knit for our neighbours children for Christmas. I was scanning through Pinterest and saw a lot of the little knitted rabbit dolls. I decided that our neighbours daughter would love playing with this.
I had so much fun knitting these dolls. I kept coming up with different outfits to dress them in. I really should have made myself one of these dolls.
Here is a collection of cloths I made for the rabbit.
As I wrote earlier I made a few of these rabbits, so with each rabbit the cloths were different.
I had so much fun making these cloths.
The great thing is we have a grand daughter coming, so guess who is going to get a rabbit made for her.
In this blog I am lumping together all the different crafts I have done while going to school.
One christmas I made all the neighbour children "christmas Elves". With their names embroidered on them.
Here is a neck warmer I made from dyed wool I made at school.
This pattern matches the socks I had knit from the dyed wool.
This is a closeup picture of the hat I knit for a friends baby.
Another one of my restless night projects. I seem to have alot of these kind of projects.
Little newbe's hat. Hopefully it will fit the newborn baby.
I saw this pillow design online, and thought to myself that maybe I will try to knit it.
The original pillow was wider, but I was running out of wool, so I decided that this size would be fine.
It turned out excellent. I absolutely love this pillow. I will definitely knit more pillows.
This is a advent calendar I made a few years ago, I knitted all the different pockets. I gave this calendar away to my sister in law.
These socks look a lot bigger than what they really are. They are meant for a 1-2 year old. I knit the top part of the sock using a Latvian braid.. I love using this technique in my knitting, but unfortunately it also has a tendency to not give the sock the stretch that it normally has without the braid.
The true colour of these socks are grey-green.
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