Birkenwasser knits

Friday the 13th was Knitmare night in Helsinki. Knitmare Fest by ILO brought yarn shop Silmukka from Tampere and designer Susanne Sommer from Austria to Helsinki, in addition to ILO yarn shop from Salo. A nice group of knitters welcomed them to Helsinki by attending a lovely knit night, buying gorgeous yarn and knitting together.


My contribution for the party was the Flying Jib Shawl, here at ILO's table at the Knitmare fest. We had a promotion with ILO: buy the yarn for this shawl (2 skeins of fingering weight) and get a free download code for the pattern, and I'm happy to announce that the promotion will run until end of October! Please visit ILO in Salo, or check out their online shop. I also did a trunk show at the event, and it was so nice to hear all the positive feedback for my designs! Thank you, all!


Susanne Sommer was the star of the night, and she gave a brioche class for advanced brioche knitters. I love her pom pom headband and I wish I had taken a better picture of it. But trust me, it's awesome!




Stidilä was a nice venue for a party like this, although it was rather dark. I had to give up my dark green cabled dress at the point when I noticed a mistake in the cables 6 rows earlier and tried to fix it in the dark, but as you can see in the picture, many people were happily knitting. And I did have another WIP with me for emergencies like this, so I didn't have to sit without knitting.


Of course, I did more shopping than a mere sock yarn skein, and I was super happy to get these lovely stitch markers from Lankaputiikki Silmukka. Saved me the trip to Tampere, even if I'd love to visit the pretty yarn shop again.

Thank you, ILO, for organising such a great event! I hope this will become a tradition!

Combining two-colour brioche with two-colour garter stitch, finishing with one-colour brioche and garter stitch. Throw in some short rows and i-cords, and it's a poncho. Or a cape. Or a cardigan. Or whatever, but it looks good and feels nice. This P-Rex by Susanne Sommer was one of my Indie Design Gift-A-Long projects from last November-December, but I didn't manage to finish it then. After the deadline had passed, there was no hurry to finish - not until the Head-to-Toe-Challenge by Lankakauppa Kerä. Round 4 in the challenge was for sweaters, and as finishing a WIP was allowed, this gave me the push needed to wrap up this project.



The pattern calls for sport weight yarn, but as the options at my LYS were much better in fingering weight I decided to go with Hedgehog Fibres Sock. The fit of this garment is not really an issue, so I simply followed the instructions for the largest size and got a nice medium-large result. Although, I have to admit that before blocking I was slightly worried that it would be too small, but I'm happy with the size after blocking.


It's RUMS day again.