Autor: cazcrafts

this strange post title isn’t about a cooking experiment that went wrong, it’s about a hat my friend dani knit using my handspun „winter day“ yarn…

i love the result and i hope it’s as comfy as it looks 🙂 i like the pattern as well and am very tempted to knit a hat like that for myself too!

knit by: dani (knit-maux at ravelry)

pattern: cranberry sauce by brittany tyler

yarn: „winter day“, handdyed and handspun by me

needles: 5.0mm

photos by dani with her permission to use them on my blog 😉

that was the handspun yarn:

and that was the handdyed roving before spinning:

may i present you: greg. the green alien from a planet far, far away!

he’s here to take part in our new hobby geocaching and a will travel the world as a „travelbug“ from outer space… he’ll be on his way soon and hopefully a lot of nice people will take him to many exciting places!

pattern: mini alien by barbara prime

yarn: leftovers from my green traveling woman shawl. i only needed a tiny amount of yarn for this project!

needles: 2mm dpns

other stuff: two 8mm eyes. would have prefered smaller ones, but my local crafts shop had completely run out of eyes 😉

this is jasper modeling his new thorpe hat… i got this mobile photo sent from his mom… and i’m delighted how well the hat fits him 🙂 maybe it will even fit one more winter season?!

i love knitting for other people – almost more than for myself. i’m happy when they are happy about the special handknit item… 😀

socks next, right sabine? 😉

after hibernating for ages i finally managed to finish this gail shawl. i couldn’t get myself to knit on for some time because i found the pattern too hard to remember and had to concentrate very hard. after i finally picked it up again it was finnished in a jiffy – can’t have been so difficult then after all 😉

pattern: gail (aka nightsongs) by MaweLucky/Jane Araujo

yarn: handspun. 100% shetland fiber, laceweight with 610m and 88g. i called it „shetland sea“

needles: 4.5mm circular needle

loved the traveling woman pattern when i first knit it for my mum. so i just had to make one more for myself. and thinking about it, i realized i never posted the traveling woman for my mum because i didn’t want her to see it online before i gave it to her for her birthday.

so here they are. my both traveling women 😉

pattern: traveling woman by liz abinante

yarn: superwash merino sock by old maiden aunt /// superwash bluefaced leicester sock yarn by lollipop.yarns

needles: 4mm circular needle