Warm twirly alpakka scarf

I used three different colours of blue to make the scarf. Dark blue, medium blue and light blue. The scarf is very easy to make. The way I made is was identical to the recipe from Drops Design - with only one easy alteration.

I kept the first part of the recipe, done in the darkest colour. Then I added a second row in the medium blue colour where I did as follows:

" Crochet 1 tr in the 4th ch from hook, then 1tr in each ch until the end of row, turn the piece and change to the third colour." Then I did what is explained as the second row as the third rom, in the lightest colour.

I chose a nice warm alpakke quality for the yarn.

Olav's Squirrel Mittens

I made Olav a pair of mittens to. I just needed to make longer thums and extend the mittens a bit.

Same colours, same material.

And now we can hope for some snow so they will be useful. So far the winter has consisted of rain, wind and storms.

My squirrell mittens

I have made myself a pair of squirrell mittens, so the squirrells are facing each other...

The big plan is to scan the pattern and put it out on the net... May be I will remember to do so one day.

I used Silja from GJESDAL to the mittens. Silja is a yarn designed for socks - but I loved the colours together, and my thinking is - socks need strong yarn - and then may be the mittens will not wear out for many years. And they can be machine washed....

My rug is all done!

I have been working on a side project for some time - making a nice rug to be on the rather cold floor in our guest room in the attic. The room is green, and I wanted some nice fresh colours.

The dog is absolutely grateful for the rug - I have tried telling her it is not for her - but she does not seem to believe me. Whenever I tried to take a picture of it - she appeared in the view....

I finalized it yesterday by crotheting a thin edge all around the rug.

Left over yarn and Domino knitting

I had some leftover yarn from some mittens, and decided to experiment a bit with the principles for Domino knitting.

First square - 29 stitches in yellow.
Knit one row.
2. row knit 13 masks, slip one mask, knit 2 masks together. Pass slipped stich over the "two masks", knit 13 masks.

Then I have used the Three center masks to reduce the number of masks with two.

Change to red.
3 row. Knit 27 masks.
4.th row - knit 12 masks, reduce the centre three masks to one as described in row 2. knit the next 12.

Continue till you have finished a square.
Make 4 more squares and join to one big square.
Make an extra square to make this wrest warmers.

Warm feet for Christmas

My sister bought an older house in the eatern part of Norway. The climate there is colder than here...and our floors are always cold in December - february... so a useful and environmental X-mas present for her and her closest should be home made slippers.

The grey/purple - three treads of thin wool.

The Red - one thread tick wool, one thread thin and then feltet.

The same with the pink pair.

Cortina + a thin wool yarn.

Mittens from Stjørdal

I have made christmas present for someone - so I can not say whom...

But these are definitely warm. Made from a recipe from Husfliden and yarn from Rauma. Extra fine woollen yarn.