Silmukointi

Novita has improved their Mambo yarn, or so I have been told. I fell love with their new color, violet, instantly when I saw it. It is just my color. So I bought it and 8 double pointed needles. pattern: Rounded hat (own, details in Ravelry ) yarn: Novita Mambo Needles: 8 mm I did also something that was completely new to me. I bought Kool-aid's and dyed some yarn. Yarns was originally blue as you can see and then I dyed the other end with grape and other end with strawberry. I like the result but don't really know what to do with this yarn. I have it 22 grams and it is originally lace weight but this is double of it. Again it is some vintage yarn and I don't know what fibers it has or what brand it is or anything.

Last week I visited in Salo and found nice yarn store, Lanka- ja käsityöliike Inkeri. There was a lot yarn in sale. And a big collection of old colours of Novita's yarn. That is what I found there: * some green 100% wool, 3 skeins * Kamomilla 100% cotton, 4 skeins, and this is one of my favourite colour! You can't see it properly because of plastic, but it is just the right colour. * Novita Nalle Colouri, I have tried to found this colour in many place and finally i found it! :) * 2 big white buttons for my Taika. So.. what happened to "I don't buy sale yarns"? I also got these nice Drops' Fabels last week for knee socks. Actually there is 4 skeins. (topic is edited version from "grün grün grün alle meine kleides ist grün" song)

I'm participating Ravelympics 2008, which is "knittin olympics". My knits are participating Events like colorwork cross country and amigurumi-n-toy toss and WIP wrestling. Today I got first knit finish. It's Berry Octopus . Berry Octopus is a cheerful and lively little thing. She went straight to wild and wanted to pose in grass. She loved the flowers. Pattern is Octopus by hansigurumi . I used Novita Nalle Colori and some vintage Marlux superwash. Needles was 2,5 mm dps.

Once upon a time there was retro curtain... ...Maija Isola's design "Resla"... ...is now my needle holder edit: This was supposed to be test version but I never did the actual version because this took so much time! Maybe someday... I did also needle inventory when I added needles to this holder: 1,75-2 mm: 12 metallista 2,5 mm: 5 harmaata, 8 metallista 2,75 mm: 4 harmaata 3 mm: 12 harmaata, 4 metallista 3,5 mm: 6 harmaata, 2 metallista 4 mm: 1 harmaa 4,5 mm: 11 harmaata Those are my mum's old ones. And here are my own ones. 2,5 mm: 5 addi's 3 mm: 5 addi's bambuu 3,5 mm: 5 addi's bambuu