fashion colours for children

I have noticed that certain colours follow the fashion, or is it other way round? Anyway, this colour, and its combinations has been around at least two years now, and it is still going on. How popular can it be?

I made my part of bringing this colour back into life. I got the yarn over half a year ago as a Christmas present (thank you Laura). I finally got back to my original plan of making woollen products for little children since I haven't been working on knitting projects for a while.

The final product was a pair of cute purplish pink colour mittens. I originally combined this "ready made stripe yarn" with a total one colour dark purple yarn on a wrist and thumb parts, but I didn't like the end result it being too contrasty. The sensitiveness of this multi-coloured yarn was somehow disappearing when I combined it with the darker colour. Even if it would make sense to combine these two yarns, it didn't look good. I guess You might agree with me when you look at the picture.
I also had some problems making the flaring part of the thumb for the left hand. Every second time I forgot how to make it. The mittens work even with two same pared parts, but of course it looks a bit stupid and not that well done. Even if the thumbs are finally placed in their right positions, you can see the mistakenly right handed made widening in the beginning of the palm. So now I finally wrote it down so I wouldn't have to scratch my head every time from now on, when I start making another one - As long as I remember where I have that piece of paper. Perhaps I should attach it to my cooking book; that is the most important bunch of paper I have here.

GreenerGreenie

My boyfriend asked me to make him another hat after his first handmade hat got lost. This two colour green hat is actually what he originally ordered from me, but as I told earlier I happened to make one extra hat while making my very first hat. Unfortunately though the OrangeBrownie was stolen. He really liked that hat.

Anyway, this hat was designed by both of us together. We even drew a picture of it with a computer, later it changed a little from the original plan. He insisted to have vertical stripes even if I tried my best to explain how much more effort it will take me. I guess it was worth it after all.
I was also originally supposed to make an inside part up to ears out of fleece, so it would be very worm winter hat and somehow more wind proof. But my attempt with his grandmothers old sawing machine didn't succeed that well neither did my hand sawing. Well, the later one I succeed to make quite well, but he didn't like the end result, how the hat was now too warm and how five centimetre stripe could be seen from outside. I guess I should have made a complete fleece hat under the woollen hat itself, but then it would have been too warm to wear anywhere other than above Arctic circle in the coldest time of the year.

Since the hat was made of two colours, it is warm enough itself for this Central European/Alpine/Mediterranean climate we have in here.

RainbowWowie

I got a bunch of new wool as a Christmas present. This is the first work I have submitted since.

I haven't been making hats before I moved to Slovenia and I was asked to make one. So this is my third hat I have ever made. As you can guess, everything didn't go as planned. It is too short. Luckily that problem is easy to solve.

The yarn is very thin. Luckily I remembered to make a sample piece and got the right amount of beginning loops straight away. I had 180 loops. I also wanted to try a new perspective of making a hat. I didn't start knitting it like I would usually do by making a big round tunnel, let's say, but I knit a big rectangle and at the end I sewed the edges together and finished the hat as I would had made it in a tunnel style.

I'm not sure if I will use the hat by myself or will someone else get it. It's not what I thought it would be, so I don't like how it ended up to look. I wish the yarn would have been one-coloured stripe yarn, but now there were almost always two colours put together to be one yarn. When I got this yarn I was very enthusiast of what all kind of things I could possibly make out of it, since the colour of the yarn ball was such a pretty one. But as I proceed my hat I was disappointed how the colours were mixed.

Anyway, soon you will see my latest hat project for my boyfriend.

Christmas knitting

During Christmas time it is common to knit huge amount of all kind of soft gifts to put into package.

This is what I made to have happy faces at Christmas eve.

Plain mittens

I continued knitting while my sisters cat was present. He loves to follow while I'm working, for him it seems to be an exiting soap opera he can watch for hours.

I begun to make these very warm and thick mittens to be wore at the coldest time of the year. I wanted to have something extra for the look so I decided to make plains. First I had problems with the thickness of the yarn, since I had to consider the decrease that thicker yarn causes, and at the same time remember that thickness also takes more space. Plus when making such big plains the mittens also get narrower.

I ended up having 40 loops at the beginning. At the end of the wrist I added ten backward loop into all of the backward spaces to have the right amount of loops for the palm part of the mitten considering all the things mentioned above.

I used Novitas' "Tempo" yarn. It is 64 % wool and 35 % acrylic. The recommended stick size was 7 to 8 but I used 4. I wanted to have thick mittens not ones with holes on it.

The color I chose was one of my favourites. I love the colours of autum. I would like to wear more of those colours so I decided to have one pair for myself. I will post the picture of these mittens before the first use.

Cats' pet mouse

My sisters cat got a nice Christmas present.

I made this mouse by croching. I found a ball of old grey yarn from my attic and decided to surprise Urho the cat.

He loves to play with this mouse. I guess it is right sized to be a prey in real life.

In fact, he even carried the mouse to the kitchen and dipped the woolen mouse in his drinking cup. I heard he does it quite often.

OrangeBrownie

I made this hat for a friend of mine. It was the very first hat I have ever made. Although since I had never made one before I had some problems making it the correct size in the first try. So I ended up making two hats where the second one turned out to be properly sized for my friend. After making some modifications I donated the first hat to my boyfriend and he is now wearing it constantly. Apparently he likes the pattern.

Anyway the hat design is my own. *The idea was to make a hat that can be carried both ways. The pattern consists of right loops (orange) and reverse loops (brown) where those two are bound to the colours. On the back side of the hat the extra yarn which travels when using other yarn has to be made to travel the same way in every turn of colours so that the pattern forms the same on the reverse side of the hat. I choose the colours with my friends backpack colours in mind. The yarn is Slovenian Nika which is 20% wool and 80% acryl. I run out of the darker coloured yarn at the end of my second hat and none of the knitting shops in Maribor had the same yarn in stock. I had started to crochet a hat with the brown yarn earlier which I then had to take apart to have the rest of the brown colour to finish the OrangeBrownie hat. So at the end I had *four hats.



Picture Jernej Burkeljca