The rosé-dress... a long time project

LONG TIME PROJECT!

I am working at this dress for over one year!

I don´t know why, but somehow it seem never to be finished.

Have you had ever such a project?

Soon is summer and it would be so nice to wear it finally this year.

The pattern is a bit difficult at the top of the dress.

So if you´re a beginner you need to practice some parts with a separate yarn for example.

The main part with the increasing is quiet easy!

And I love the old-rose color!

I am planning to knit this dress some day with different colors.

It seems a bit boring with just one color.

But in the end I could wear a black belt and a blank bolero with it.

Or a dark pink jacket.

When you knit a dress only in one color you have much more choices with accessorizes.

HERE IS THE FREE LINK TO THE PATTERN:

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/pattern.php?id=6506

Polar Bear Hoody crochet

After the birth of my little angel I had finally time to knit and crochet again!

Here I made the polar bear hoody.

I bought the yarn in a small shop at my vacations in Budapest some years ago.

Online you can find many patters for the hoody, but if you have crochet before you can easily crochet it without! 

Many online patters are expensive. Maybe you can See here how easy it is!

If I have time later I will write a short construction you can read here for free!

Of course the way I made it 😉

Here is my cutie ❤️

6000 clicks on my blog and my cat want´s to tell you, that my dress is ready soon!

6000 VISITS!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INTERESTS!!!

I love the colors again!
Beautiful bright turquoise with the black!

Later there will come a dark turquoise edge.

So check out my next blog entry! 

Here you got a closer look on the top.

I am not sure if the sleeve is long enough. 

If they are to short I just will open them again and continue for maybe 5 more centimeters.

You´ll find the free pattern on www.garnstudio.com

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/pattern.php?id=3989&lang=en

Broken round needle

Nice pattern going on at my newest dress.

I still have to knit about 15 cm and increase a bit more chains for the waist.

Size will be in S! Let´s see how I fit in it, as my baby bump is just growing.

:)

And by the way, I just sat on the needle and it broke in 3 pieces!

Shops are already closed, as it is Sunday evening...

So I hope the tape will last at least for this evening.

Tomorrow after work: shopping new needle in this size -.-

ARG!

Baby socks

After a long time I am finally back in knitting.

Actually I was knitting now and then on my longtime project, which you can see down under the socks.

For the first time I knitted baby socks.

In the beginning I was a bit confused how to knit the top of the socks and I had to open the work for a couple of times until I figured it out.

In the end, like always, it was pretty easy and I made both in only some hours.

Quiet cute, are they? :)

I got the pattern from a knitting book for baby clothes.

I tell you the pattern at the end of this blog entry in the way how I made it.

And here my longtime project, which kept me busy during the Christmas time as often as I came to knit to.

The pattern is not difficult, but much to count and it seems to need many month until I will get to finish it.

The yarn is my all-time favorite Safran again.

It´s very soft and slippery on the needle, but I love to wear it!

In the end it´ll be a kind of dress.

I will post more pictures later!!!!

The baby socks pattern:

SIZE: 0-3 month/ 3-9 month

Choose 2 yarn colors, you only need under 50 gr each color.

needle size 3,5

make 32/36 chains on the needle.

Then knit complete sock in  "always right" : first row right, second row left and so on

*****

2 rows first color (black), 2 row second color (white)

Knit like this until you get 7 cm of the stripes

*****

after this safe the first 12/13 and the last 12/13 chains on separate needle to continue them later

work only with the middle 8/10 chains!

Continue knitting the stripes for 4 more centimeters

While knitting this knit always the last chain left and the first chain right in cross! 

*****

So you get a longer middle stripe row.

Now only use the main color, I had black.

Knit the first 12/13 chains, then make on the side of the long part 10/12 new chains.

Go to the top and knit the 8/10 chains.

Then on the other side go down and make 10/12 new chains again.

Then knit the last 12/13 chains.

You will get together 52/60 chains!

The work is pretty tight!!!

So knit continue knitting in always right for again 3 cm!

*****

The final part.

First row: knit edge chain (first), then 28/33 chains, 2 chains together right.

leave the rest chains on the needle, turn work!

Second row:  knit the first chain left, 7/9 chains right, knit 2 chains left together

turn work and knit the second row again.

Knit the second row again and again, turning the work again and again, until on each side are only 5/6 chains left.

So in the end you will get 18/22 chains.

Finish the work but ending all chains in one row.

Then sew the sock together.

Ready!

(translation is not original and can be changed how you like)

the red dress is finished

HERE IT IS!

<3

THE LOVELY DRESS IN A PERFECT RED!

NICE NECK-PATTERN!

AND THE SAME ON THE BOTTOM!

JUST THE RED DRESS

THE TURQUOISE AND RED DRESS

I made some differences on the red dress.

WITHOUT A BELT

AND AGAIN WITH A BELT

HERE`S THE FREE PATTERN ON GARNSTUDIO:

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/pattern.php?id=5578&lang=en

a fast update to the red dress

It´s growing nicely!

<3

Soon I am starting the sleeves!!!

KEEP IN TOUCH TO SEE THE FINAL DRESS!!!

<3

red dress growing

So far so good :)

The dress is getting shape slowly.

Looks like a skirt till now.

And I recognized that the edges are rolling.

I definitely have to iron this later!

Here the pattern again.

I use Drops Karisma for this work.

It is a very soft, woolly yarn.

Slippery for an iron-needle, but it works.

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/fi/visoppskrift.php?d_nr=138&d_id=4&lang=fi

A box full of goodies arrived :D as do orders from friends :)

I got an order from a friend to knit the same dress I made earlier.

So I ordered the wished color for her in a nice Drops Karisma yarn.

Drops Karisma is a very soft and slippery yarn.

I knit it on a steel round needle, but I think a bamboo round needle is better for this yarn!

Well I do not have the bamboo round needle in the same size, so I am good with the steel one. :)

 I got my first order line!

1. I knit the nice dress for my friend:

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/pattern.php?id=5578&lang=en

2. I knit a jacket for an old school friend, just after a picture she gave me. I hope I´ll manage through it.

3. I got an order for an bolero I made. 

4. And all between this I knit for a charity. 

I knit basic woolly hats and mittens for poor people and give them for free of course!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/228024254013876/?notif_t=group_r2j_approved

the glitter woolly hat is finished!!!!!!!!

I LOVE IT!

JUST SOME LITTLE MISTAKES HERE AND THERE.

It was very new to me knit with pictures and structures.

It sits perfectly and hopefully keeps my head warm this winter :)

Here´s the link to the nice woolly hat:

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/fi/visoppskrift.php?d_nr=116&d_id=45&lang=fi

A quick update to my glitter snow-flake-hat :)

So much till now.

It´s nearly finished.

If you have a close look you can see some mistakes.

But as I remember you, it´s my first time knitting pictures!!!!

And I am very proud of myself, that it looks so beautiful! 

:)

the woolly glitter hat is taking shape

Just have a look :)

I made this for my very first time!!!

the new woolly hat

So I am at my new project.

Last winter I bought this nice yarn from Novita.

So I use 2 colors. White and soft violet with glitter.

Maybe the yarn is a bit too thin for my woolly hat, but I wanna try it.

It´s nice to have a woolly hat for not so cold days.

You know in Finland winter can be very strong and you need thick clothes to stay warm.

Slowly the pattern grows and I love the color combination!

Here a closer pic of the texture.

And now it´s actually looking like that.

Stay tuned for new pictures and for the final product! 

:)

Thanks to you all!

So many people have checked out my new dress!
Thanks to everyone who had a look at my fantastic knit and my blog!!!

There´s more to come soon! 

I am actually working on a new fast knit.
Photos are coming online soon!

I finally finished the dress!

It´s perfect!!!

Without a belt.

It´s not so good without a belt or is it?

A beautiful pattern at the top!

From the side...

With a little jacket.

CONTACT ME FOR ORDERS OR QUESTIONS!

how to put the sleeves on the dress

The interesting part was easier then I thought!

Sleeves!

So I made the short sleeve at a separate knitting round-needle first. 

And I ended 8 stitches for the sleeve at both sides on the dress.

Here you can see the different parts together.

And then you just have to knit the sleeves stitches to the dress and after this you continue with the stitches of the dress normally.

After knitting and continuing the patter the sleeve slowly gets in nice shape.

Both sleeves at the dress.

I really hope my arms will fit in there ;)

It´ll be a very nice dress in the end!

IT WILL BE FINISHED SOON!!!!