My bag is finished!

The process:

Reviving ancient ornament

Ancient ornaments are my passion. For example, I love this 16th century ornament from this site.
I enlarged it and made a chart. Well, I can see some mistakes now because enlarging the picture to pixels generates "noises" which are seen on the chart unfortunately.

What I decided to do - to make a bag in tapestrycrochet technique.
This is how it looks now. I like it. And two yarns make the garnment harder - just needed for a bag.

Here I demonstrate the trick - the loom of the previous stich should be in the colour of the next stich.

I will show you the bag when it comes ready. :)

My first stick insect is born!

I received stick insects eggs 3 month ago and so much time had passed that I didn't hope anymore. I decided that I did something wrong with the eggs. This morning I noticed that some stich has fallen in the bowl, I wanted to clean it out but... it moved.

Dancing frogs

I was asked to knit a frogs sweater for 3 years old girl. Colours - pink (sweater) + green (frogs) was rather difficult to combine but I did find the tones which inspired me.

The process was long but fortunaltely winter is still far away.

Knitted as top-down raglan. Frogs were not so easy to put on so small sweater. So I decided to leave middle legs hanging - and just frogs became dancing ones. :)

Hat for Lauma

A flowers hat for little Lauma:

As Lauma lives far away and is not available for fittings I was afraid how it will lie on the model. I just received the pictures and fortunately it looks really good:

Green-black

Here it is:

And back:

This one is taken by my daughter:

A simple and chaotic description.
Buttom up raglan.
Front side - ribbed stich in the sides and here is my improvised lace motif for the middle:

I have invented a symbol for my "3 st to 2" method but I am not sure how to describe it...
Back side - ribbed stich (green) along the sides, reverse stockinette (black) in the middle which grows bigger going up.
Stitch for joining sleeves with body:



And this stich with small knots for neckline edge:


The edge:

Easter rabbit

Knitted round bottom to top. Begin with 40 st. Reduce about half of the st on the neckline. Knit two rounds and increase again to make a head. Nose is knitted like a boubble (make 5 st from one, knit or purle some rows, then knit those 5 together again). Knit 3-4 rounds ater the nose and then begin to reduce slowly (because the top of the head is close). Ears knitted in one peace with head - just take some st in one side of the head and knit seaparate several rows (that long you want) then reduce gradually until only one st remained. Pick up one stich from a side of the ear (go the same direction you knitted round) and pass the previous st over. Pick up the next and pass prev st over this again. Until you are back to the stiches of the head. Continue with the head and reduce gradually - until there are only some st, cut the yarn and pull it through the remaining stiches. Knit a small "scarf", stuff the head and tie the "scarf" around the neck - imagine these are paws. :) Make small back foots, attached to the body. Stuff the body, sew the bottom seam. Make a lap and a face. And the "quick rabbit" is completed.

Spring is coming

Spring is coming so an young lady needs something new and bright.

Winter necklace

My winter necklace - very simple one and looks "warm". I used wooden balls for felting.

Skiing hat with celtic motifs

As I baught new skiis I needed a new hat as well.
I thought this celtic motif was perfect for my hat. Knitting it from the center was a challenge for me.

The first round is 8 stiches (2 on each needle). Every next round you make 3 stiches from the corner stiches. This is the chart:


When the chart was over the circuit of the hat was luckily exactly my size. :) Then I had to knit just stright ahead.
Another celtic motif on the ears:


Fixing the endings of the yarns inside (you will have large amount of endings if you do colourwork knitting around):

Knitting another layer inside (I wanted double layers to make it cosy):

This is the result:



It is original and my ears don's freeze!