Snoopy

My friend Sandra has a birthday tomorrow, and as she once expressed a wish for a crochet Snoopy doll, I thought this was a perfect opportunity to make that wish come true.

Thank God there was a pattern for Snoopy on Ravelry, otherwise I'd be in deep trouble.


He's done with a 1,5 mm hook and Mirjana no. 5 cotton thread.
My God, those tiny stitches were a total pain. Especially the black ones. And removing the stitch marker (a tiny safety pin in my case) at the beginning of every round, and then making a stitch and putting it back in - Worst.Task.Ever.

But in the end, I'm pretty satisfied with the final result.

Orange Global Warming

I've been away from the blog for a while, knitting like a maniac.
Since it's October, and pumpkins are everywhere, how about a pumpkin colored sweater?

This is Global Warming. Great pattern, done in the round, bottom-up. I chose it because of the puffy sleeves and the pocket on the front. Loved the fact that it has a pocket on the front.


Who knew the fricking pocket would be so hard to sew on?

This thing you see above is my first and last time of sewing something on the front of anything I knit.

Global Warming was knit on 3,5 mm needles with GGH Wollywash. It's a great yarn, soft and easy to knit with. I used almost six skeins on this little sweater, which is just about the amount I had.


I'm still working on Basic Black, I just have to knit the sleeves and seam all the pieces together. Looking forward to that as much as I would look forward to walking barefoot on broken glass.

In other news, remember that one hundred time I said I would not buy more yarn until I use up my stash? You see where this is going, don't you?

Ta da! Brought to you by my lack of willpower: GGH Wollywash, for the Caitlin Pullover, which I've had in my queue since January of 2008, and Marija for ... something. Any suggestions?

Why did Bono fall off the stage?

He was too close to The Edge. ;)

Any U2 fans out there? My friend is a huge fan. Huge as in willing to pay massive amounts of money to see them live in various European cities huge. Me, I like some of their songs. But let's get back to the friend. Huge fan. Last summer she was all about The Edge. That's the guy that plays the guitar. The one with the hat. All her emails and SMS were about how awesome Edge is. So this year for her birthday, I decided to make her an Edge doll. And apparently, I wasn't paying enough attention to her messages, because she now no longer likes Edge the best.Now she likes Adam. The other guy that plays the guitar. It's like we're twelve and get a new crush every week.

I don't get it, when I was into Take That (and mind you, that was 10 years ago), I stayed true in my adoration of Gary Barlow. If I had to choose today, I would still pick Gary. Take That is back, after all.

Anyway, back to my Edge problem. I still haven't sent her the gift. I'm deciding between mailing him to her and delivering him personally, waving him in front of her and saying in an Irish accent: Why don't you love me anymore? I think she'll change her mind when she sees how cute he turned out. I mean, really, Adam who?

Amigurumi Edge is done in Mirabela cotton, on a 3mm hook. I based him on Nerdigurumi Link pattern. His arms and legs are stuffed with pipe cleaners, so they are bendable. The hat comes off. I wanted to add some embroidery on his shirt, but after the terrible job I did on his shoes, I gave up on that.

But I did make him a little felt guitar. Here he is with my ipod for a size reference.


Now I just have to present my friend with this amigurumi version of her SECOND favorite U2 member. I really should pay more attention when she talks about U2.

I just want to sleep...

I've been sick this past week. Still don't feel like myself. The weather is terrible, it's only 9 AM and it's completely gloomy and gray. It's raining like crazy and it's cold. The kind of weather that makes you want to go back to bed. Or at least curl up under the blanket, a hot cup of tea nearby and a book in your hand. Or your latest knitting project.

Good thing my latest project is a pillow. Perfect timing.


It's a crochet granny square with sewn cotton back. The yarns I used are Mirabela by Unitas and Camilla (Madame Tricote). My square didn't turn out exactly square, maybe it's the different yarns or my lack of crochet practice, but I don't care.


Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go test my new pillow.

Don't laugh - I made a skirt!

I'm not one for feminine clothes. I never wear skirts. In fact, I practically only ever wear jeans.

But this summer I came across a nice tutorial on how to make a shirred top skirt, and it was summer and hot, so I thought why not. Mostly I just wanted to try shirring.

I didn't want to buy new fabric, so I used some bed sheet material I already had and ended up with this:

(Excuse the wrinkle, I sat down in it. That's just one of the reasons I don't like skirts.)

The shirring turned out great, and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be.
It doesn't fall all that nice, but that's just the super starched sheet fabric doing its thing.
So now I have something to wear around the house in these warm summer days. I say around the house, because I would never ever wear this in public. Ever. Like even to take out the trash or open the door for the postman.

I'm only showing it to you, Internet. Don't laugh.