knits

The talented crochet designer Donna Childs was nice enough to design a pencil case for the Sudan project I've been running with the Ravelry Darfur group and will be running for a few months still - so please participate

I have two 3 euro coupon codes for my t-shirt and bag shop at http://shop-eu.worsted-knitt.net/ to give away. Delivery all over Europe (there’s a sister shop for US at http://shop-us.worsted-knitt.net but the codes’s won’t work there this time around).

Please leave a comment or use the contact form if you’d like to have a code.

If you like the designs but not the shirts (or colours), I can make shirts per order to the shop, so please let me know.

My niece, whom I love very much and who is crafty herself, had her 14th birthday on the 16th January. For her I made this little bag.

The bag itself is knit with Novita's Rustika yarn, which is 51% wool and 49% acrylic. It felts a bit, so that's what I did with it - felted it. The pattern is the buttonhole bag from Mason-Dixon knitting. I think I used 10 mm needles and ca. 100 grams of yarn.

I read an article in Ullaneule a while back about kitchen cloths and how useful they actually are. As backround to you readers, in Finland no-one uses cloths to do the dishes, rather brushes and sponges.

We have the first crochet pattern available, so please get your hooks and make one for Sudan.

Clara designed it, and you can find it at her blog.

A note to all: please send any cases you have ready to HELPSudan now, as they'd love to have some for their Annual Craft Auction on the 24th January!

Here is one of the pencil cases which I've made until now for the "Pencil cases for Sudan" KAL which I'm sort of conducting along with the Ravelry Darfur group!

I don't think I've never finished this big an item so quickly. That might be explained with a) I loved the pattern and b) I wanted to wear this gorgeous piece during Christmas. I can remember blogging about it on the 7th of December, and I actually wore it during Christmas!

Now that Christmas is gone, I can show all the gifts I made but hesitated to blog about in the fear the recipient might read about it here! Nick's slippers were the first one, and here's the wine cozy.

It was a gift for my sister's husband, accompanied by a bottle of German organic white wine. He seemed to like it!

The stats:

Pattern: Knitty's Wine Cozy

Needles: 4mm dpns

A while back I blogged about the failed Christmas present for Nick, which felted so badly I had to throw it away. Well, I knit it, or them, again, and felted them with much caution this time - and they worked out fine this time!

They are the 8-square-slippers (in Finnish) and they are gorgeous! Plus, Nick loves them, he wears them all the time. Success!

After a long break I've started a project that isn't

a) charity

b) small or

c) for someone for Christmas

This is the Versatility multifunction-knitted-item from Knitty.