It's Helsinki Pride week and artists Ilar Gunilla Persson and Heidi Lunabba brought their Washing line art project* to Helsinki. The minute that I saw the announcements, I knew this was call for some knitted street art! So here is my yarn bombing contribution: The artists say that the act of selecting textiles from the cabinet can be seen as a symbolic act...
Bubble gum colors for my Troll princess. The perfect choice for a sunny summer day: bright and striped! The stripes are made by changing both color and texture, alternating in stockinette and purl in four colors. Pattern: Hippiäinen tee Yarn: Novita Miami (Peach, Yellow, Mint, Gray) Needles: 4 mm The pattern is available on Ravelry in English and in Finnish in size 104. You'll...
Every day is a potential knit in public day for me, but it's always more fun if there is company. World wide knit in public day sounded like something I'd like to participate in, and not only by knitting by myself. To my surprise, there weren't that many KIP happenings listed in Helsinki. The choices were either Geek girls knitting in the park...
A couple of years ago I knitted a very time consuming cable pattern with an expensive supposedly good quality yarn. Turns out it starts pilling after wearing the garment maybe twice. Well, what can you do, avoid that yarn from now on. Then I happen to visit the same LYS for some other business, and casually mention the problem with the yarn. "No,...
Lehtokerttu top is a linen summer top with dropped stitches creating lace like horizontal lines. The top is knitted sideways in one piece. It has a loose, boxy shape. Pattern: Lehtokerttu top Yarn: Quince & co Sparrow, colorway 212 Fen, 5 skeins Needles: 3,5mm Quince & co Sparrow organic linen yarn has a lovely glow. The top turned out just the way I...
