Yarnphetamine

Pikesocks made for my very own fisherman. After I saw this pattern on the magazine I thought this would great form my partner since he likes to fish. And I feel that pike is very common fish for Finns so the design was just perfect. Unfortunately the pattern can only be found in Finnish. I used DK weight yarn 75% wool, 25% yarn in three different colors: natural white , denim and green multicolor.   At the time I didn’t have much experience with multicolored knitting and it ended up to be so tight that he couldn’t get the on. In the end I did these three times over before the size was right. So this could have been way too difficult for my skill level, but I did learn a lot. Practice makes perfect, right? And I’m not afraid of any challenge so I will take on project that might be bit difficult in the future. Especially if I see a design that is too good to pass up. Also this is officially an U.F.O. turned into a F.O. Since it probably had bee

It was late winter when my brother asked me to make some cozies for cans to keep them cool especially during summer. After I finished a set for my brother I decided to make some for myself. And since the weather forecast is promising some very worm days for the next two weeks. And these are a good way of using some left over yarn. For example I used Regia’ Tweed Color 4fach first to make socks for mend then the bigger sized cozy. And I managed to use the whole skein. The other yarn I used was Alize Superwash 100 . More info on the Ravelry page. These cozies are pretty simple to make. I basically just started to crochet a spiral adding stiches until the base of cozy was the right size. Then I stopped adding stiches and just crochet until the height was right. I didn’t have any patterns for these cozies there was some frogging involved especially moving from the bottom to the side of the cozy. But as I made more cozies I got the hang of it and had to do less frogging.