Spring knitting

This weekend, it is suppose to be up to 11 degrees, and I finished another knitting project, with a real spring feeling to it, just in time for the upcoming season.

Fleur followed me closely in the knitting process and was really exited about this one. Every time she saw it, she would mention it was for her. Who can blame her with those colours? Had I had enough yarn, I'd probably ended up making this one for myself instead, but I am happy to see her in it. When I finished and wanted to try it on Fleur to see the fit, she ended up wearing it for several days in a row and refused any other sweater, so it's definitely a hit.

The pattern is self-thought out, but I got inspired for colour mix on Instagram and used some leftover yarn I had acquired, while I was pregnant and still knitted baby size items. I love to knit brioche knit, it is so light and fluffy and has such a nice texture regardless of the material. You might remember it is not my first brioche stitch sweather.

I hope you will be as lucky with the weather this weekend as we are going to be here in Berlin. Have a nice one.

Knitting Craze

It's the time of year, where I start getting down to the K'nitty-gritty. Now that I have someone in the house who needs an ever changing garderobe it's easy to find new cute mini projects, that I can spend my precious evenings on.

This year I almost didn't manage to take a break in the knitting, there has been constant new inspiration and yarn that I want to use. So far I did this read cardigan, a pattern from Hoppestrik and from yarn that I bought last year on the Boxhagener Saturday food market. Turned out that there was not enough yarn, so I ended up having to order some more online and got caught by another interesting yarn on the website, so I thought, "why not?" I have wanted to make this adorable chunky sweater from Knitting for Olive ever since I found it on Pinterest while I was pregnant. Which didn't take long knitting on size 7 needles. And while I was at it and had some extra yarn to spare, I decided to make a small cardigan for Esmeralda as well, so she wouldn't go chilly through the winter.

I though that was it for now, but apparently I am unstoppable this year. I already started another sweater, but this time with many colors for the summer, so there is something to look forward to.

A Quilt

A couple a weeks ago soon, Pauline came for a short visit and brought this amazing homemade quilt for Fleur. Such a wonderful and laboursome gift. Now Fleur has a blanket to play on where she will hopefully spend hours of fun in the future.

Baby Blanket

The past several months, in my quest to find nice ideas on baby knitting and crochet I have become a bit of a Pinterest addict. I stumbled upon this blanket, which inspired me to do something similar. I found it impossible to find a nice premade baby wool blanket, so I am happy that I could just knit one myself. This one in gather stitch is definitely not difficult to make. Anyone who knows basic knitting can do it.

In January, I bought this amazing wool from La La Berlin in collaboration with Lana Grossa. I really like the color mix, so when I saw it in the store amongst the many other bowls of yarn it was the obvious choice. Since I used big knitting needles, the blanket didn't require a lot of time. Anyway, I had lots of time to kill while in the hospital.

It sure is nice and comfy for Fleur to rest in.

Miniature Projects

I guess most of you already knows this. But if you don't, Vincent and I will add a new little member to our family in a month or so. This is, of course, something we find super exciting and at the same time terrifying. There is something nice about this waiting period full of expectation and uncertainty, and I sometimes wish we could pause the clock and stay here just for a little bit longer.

As you can see from the pictures I have been doing a whole lot of knitting during the past couple of months. Now, there is finally a reason to knit stuff for someone else than myself and I can go crazy in cute baby patterns and tryouts and teddies.

The thing I like most about knitting baby clothes is, that it is so much quicker than if I were to knit a sweater for myself, so I really had fun trying out lots of new patterns and techniques. And I am far from done. I definitely see myself knitting on a more regular basis, now that there is a wardrobe that needs to be renewed every once in a while.

Julerier

Since I only posted pictures from my trip to France this month, it could almost seem like I forgot it was Christmas. However, December has been full of little Christmas doings and treats, I have just been too busy with stuff to post anything.

I did manage to sit down and write some Christmas greetings, visited a couple of Christmas markets, make some homemade Chrismas wreaths, bake lussebullar for Lucia, make cookies, enjoy the sun in our living room and cook Christmas lunch for three days and have a great time with my friends and lots of good food.

Now with Christmas two days away I am still not completely done with my Christmas shopping, but today my family is arriving in Berlin and I am sure we are going to have some lovely and serene Chrismas days ahead of us. 

Teddy

Back in July, my friend Tina had a little boy. So I recently went to see him for the first time and for the occasion I spend some time on a little teddy for him, in bright colors and with moveable limbs.

I have been told that he is a hit.

I found the inspiration for him here. There should be a PDF pattern if you feel up to the task.

A Christmas Present

One thing I am pretty happy with, is this leather box I made in December, for the tarots card I offered my father for Christmas. For those of you who doesn't know, Tarot is not only a way to tell ones future, but also a pretty standard French card game played with the same deck of card.

Instead of just offering the cards in the paperbox they came in, I thought to have a little fun in the workshop. Here I rediscovered my love for leather. It is such a nice material to handle and I am really proud of the finished result.

New Computer Case!

A new computer calls for a new computer case. Maybe you remember my old one? It was getting more and more worn down. Recently I finished this one in a beautiful leather with my name at the front. Can't wait to leave it in the sun over the summer, so the leather will get a nice burned color.