Birthday Socks and Leg Hair

Birthday socks for mom!

First: the ultimate sock pattern for comfortable well fitting socks, they are called Blue Zebra.

Second: Non slip slippers knitted from hand spun yarn, bonus leg hair included in picture.

70s Beret

Look what one of my good customers have made out of my yarn! 

Matilda (aka Odorono on Ravelry) has used "Texture Like Sun", a mostly merino yarn if I remember correctly, and crochet this lovely beret inspired by the 70s. 

I particularly love the yellow button on the top. 

Trassel yarn

I finished the yarn over the week end and as promised here it is. I did a chain ply to keep the colour sequence intact and I think it came out lovely, thick and squishy, and very colourful. Check the post below to see the origin of it. 

I think Ill knit a pair of horribly simple unisex (so the husband can wear them too) wrist warmers of it, there is just 40 grams so it wouldn't be enough for anything bigger. Over all I am pretty proud of my thriftiness. 

Trassel

There are always little bits and pieces left over when I spin, the big pieces of singles I ply a "leftover" yarn from, but these little scraps, what to do with them, I could not throw them away. So, with hand carders, bought second hand, I set out to card the little pieces. I de-twisted them and sorted them in small piles with nice colours, and it worked. Small rolags waiting to be spun. It was hard work carding it though, and the poor carders that have been idle and drying for years got a real workout. Ill show the finished yarn on monday, if it is done, chain plying to keep the colours separate I think.

Tomatoes

My internet access supplier had big problems yesterday, so the little aspiring tomatoes gets to show themselves today instead.

I saw this documentary...

...On tv, which in itself is remarkable since I have completely stopped watching tv, I only see things I can download on the computer at a time that is convenient for me, wow, what a lot of time that got set free, ok, continuing, about Olafur Eliasson. Two things about that.
1: I get so frustrated by these "humble" men that get these huge deals and can show their art on a really big scale, how many women artist get to do that? Hmm, not many! Hugely irritating! How can people see these men get so many advantages for nothing and let it go on!
2: I was very moved by his work! I am not going to rant on about what it means to me, but instead show some clips of his work from youtube, and if you are interested you can find more information on your own.

Stuff to knit if you are bored

Giant Olive

Wonder Woman Sweater

Moustache Cowl

Mini Traffic Cones

This is seriously called the "Humiliate the Dog" 

Squashed Rat Bookmark

Sushi Roll Scarf

Yarny Thursday

Fire Engine

Pure Joy (sold)

Leftovers

Yellows

Yellow socks finished! I got stuck on these half way trough the second sock, right before the very unusually constructed heel, they are toe ups. Weird toe, but very nice when I got the hang of it and also a weird sewn cast off, which was also very nice. They are the "Punctuated Rib Socks" from "Knitting with Hand-painted Yarn", lovely book. 

Download

My pattern is now available as a free download-able PDF on Ravelry!
I would love to see some knitted up examples and to hear about how the pattern is to follow and if it contains any faults.
I will have the pattern here on the blog in some way (thinking about that) soon too for those who are not members of Ravelry.

Kebnekaise sock pattern

now available 

on