Baby Cardigan by "Handknitsbyelena" :) Works nicely!

Dear friends!

Nice, nice! I just succeded with the lovely Baby Cardigan by Handknitsbyelena  --- it's really lovely! I just skipped with finishing collar because I didn't really feel like picking up stitches from such a delicate eyelet-collar anyway... 

So, here it is! I hope you like it :)

Love

Fla

Baby hat with fans :)

Dear friends!

Well, I haven't disappared. Actually I did, but here I am again. I didn't have a chance to knit anything interesting lately - and it has been a hectic time! How about a lovely baby hat for a friend who gave birth this week? I bought a pattern from HANDKNITSBYELENA - a hat with "fans" - I really had to practice for this! Does it look cute? :)

Love
Fla

Kitty Love Washcloth :)

Dearest friends,

My blog has lost almost all of its followers - only 3 now! Sigh :)

In order to finish the ball of yarn I had in orange, I thought to add a little gadget for the baby set - and I found a lovely washcloth - so cute, with a kitten and a heart! :)

Easy peasy :) Just knit and purl ;)

Here it is :)

Love,
Flavio

Saartje Booties :)

Dear friends!

Sooo, here I am again - the baby who is supposed to get the Aviatrix Baby Hat will be born tomorrow - and I found the time to do some extra thingies before we go visit the newborn! I mixed the hat-yarn with some spare green merino I had and... I enjoyed the occasion to knit my FIRST baby booties ever! They are so cute and quick to make! Just I wasn't very happy about the loop holes for the buttons, they are not really ideal, but well, there it goes! :)

I find it quite sweet :) What do you think? I found the pattern on Raverly :)

Oh, and here a photo of the hat and the booties together! :)

Love,
Flavio

Aviatrix Baby Hat :)

Dear friends!

I haven't posted anything for a loooong time, I know. You probably have forgotten this blog. But truth is, I hadn't knitted anything either! Sorry :( Life got suddenly extremely busier and I didn't have the concentration for knitting something new. I have got a lovely excuse now: a friend is going to give birth very soon and I thought I'd do a lovely baby hat - so, I found this AVIATRIX BABY HAT pattern on RAVELRY and chose a lovely PEACH coloured yarn at my local shopping mall :) Only, I didn't have the 3.25 needles with me, so I did the whole pattern with the smaller needles asked for in the pattern (3mm) --- it works actually!

It was quite easy and I loved the "melon" shaping of the head - for this I had to learn a new kind of movement: WRAP AND TURN :) Nice to see there is always something new to learn! I hope the baby and the mother will like this :) The earflaps and straps are so cute as well :)

Love,
Fla

2010... poor 2010!

Dear friends!

Yes, I really haven't been knitting until now. Crazy year. Well, actually... I did a little pouch for the tarot cards in the summer :) I bought the deck and read that it must be protected in a special thing that must be very personal - and I thought, well, I can knit one :) It is complete with a string you can pull to open and close it :) It is quite lovely, and I used a skein I still hadn't started, very plush and comfy! :)

Also, I did yesterday a little doll pullover --- the cute thing is, I improvised the pattern! Hihihi... I started doing some checkers... and then I was not sure how to go on. I thought... let's try a pullover for a doll or similar :) - I did the front, splitting the neck shaping in two needles, etc. etc... the fair-isle looked quite nice, and I was happy about it. Then I did the back, the sleeves, the neck... and this was the result:

Well, sorry for being so absent. I am just about to get my MA degree in Singing, so... I am quite busy, yep :)

Love,
Fla :)

Step nº 3 - Keene Toddler Vest is READY!!!

Dear friends!

Yoohooooo! It's finished!

It's taken quite a long time to finish this vest, but I am SOOO happy about it. I will post it inmediately to my Raverly profile of course. And I also found a baby for it, so I can't wait to take photos of the baby wearing it, although it might be a bit big for him now, so we can wait for spring (it's actually very good for spring too, with a shirt under :) I really loved the pattern. I just had soo little time to do this, that I had to take spare half hours here and there to work on it!

The sewing and collar/sleeve "editing" might look a bit torturing from the outside... (see photo). Plus, I have never learned to use a circular, so I couldn't do the neck collar as per instructions. This means, I simply did the back collar separately and the front V-collar separately as well, and then I sew them together. You can't really notice from a distance, so... I guess I did the right thing! Sorry, still haven't found the time to learn the circular knitting... oh well! (This prevents me from undertaking a huge number of patterns, in fact!)

Soooo... here it is! The ribbon is a traditional Fla-Trademark, but is of course optional in case the mother doesn't like it. The vest is nice anyway as it is! It also feels nice with this PODIUM yarn I bought in Spain. Yoohoo! I also love the cables, etc etc :) The shaping was also OK, although I forgot the right/left-slanting factor and it could have looked even more perfect, but hey, I am human :) LOL!



Hope you like it!

Love,
Fla