Babystrik på pinde 3

I first wrote this post in danish... seems that my brain automatically swithced to danish as the title was in danish.

Pattern is from the leaflet/book = Babystrik på pinde 3

Yarn= pink is Dale royal alpakka, and needles 2.5 and 2

Red is tynn alpakka and needles 3 and 2.5

Modification pink -  casted on for the smallest size and knitted the length of the next size.

Modification red - ended up doing the same modification as for the pink, as it seems that I knitted very loosely the red one and it seemed to wide compared to the length so I also increased the length for that size.

The pink one was intended for my 2 1/2 month old, and the red was intended as the first thing in my gift basket/drawer. Seems that I will be keeping the red one as well....

More wardrobe updates

The pixiehat I made for my 2 1/2 year old had widened a lot so it was not that practicale to use any more (wind in ears).  I therefore decided to pick up stitches and knit pink-orange-neon edge to close the gap.. I debated to crochet .. but was more comfortable that knitting would give me a better looking result.

May the force be with you

We met with friends yesterday (yearly gathering) were we ate good food and had a game with home-made gifts.

I made these two hat´s, the guys in this group are avid Star wars fan´s so I decided two make a hat with Star wars theme. I didn´t stop at one and made two, and I had idéas for many more (but didn´t have time to knit more). I used only leftover yarn so I got to destash a bit. 

Pattern for hat 1: turn a square, yarn (navia trio and some other yarn for the letters)

Pattern for hat 2: from norway with love  , yarn (navia duo)

Knitting charts: http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/charts/starwars.htm

Balaclava

I have bought two balaclavas for my daughter, and none of them have fit perfectly, one I can still return but the other one we had already started to use.  I gave up on the idea to find the perfect one in the stores so I decided to knit one.  And it was perfect on the first try, warm, soft and well fitting.

Pattern: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/collared-pixie

Yarn: Dale Baby Ull , color: 0007 (dye lot 5015),  little bit less then two skeins (maybe 95g)

I knitted with double strands of the "dale baby ull". 

Size:  1 year old (80 stitches cast on) ,  fits perfectly on my 2 year old

No I´m just considering whether I should embellish it or not. 

Update: it doesn´t fit so well anymore, got looser with wear.

Blackberry

My mom came earlier with this for my little beanie, I think it will fit around 3 months.

I was hoping (asking) that she would make another one just bigger for my big girl, but nope she has some other colors in mind... to bad as I really love this colour combo..  Seems that i must borrow/steal som pink yarn from her stash and buy black yarn and knit one myself

I´ve made some progress with the Nova dress

But I just started to read "Fifty shades of Gray" so I expect that there will not be much of a knitting done in the evening and more reading time clocked in.

She also knitted some lovely warm socks for my big girl, was not able to take a picture of them, she was not willing to take them off and not standing still enough for pictures... maybe next time.