Helsinki Market Photos

Fiber photos from one of the markets overseas last year. I love all the knitty, colourful goodness!

From France

From last year, along the Avenue de Paris in Versailles, France



Also last year, Paris, obviously...



Yarn!

Koigu Painter's Palette Premium Merino
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Angora Snow

Good morning!

Today is a warm but snowy day here. The snow has been falling slowly in big flakes reminding me of a snowglobe. It's very pretty.

Today's stash/yarn photo follows that theme. Fuzzy, fluffy, light and white.



That's a Fleece Artist 100% Angora yarn, appropriately named Peter Rabbit. It *is* as soft as it looks.

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Saroyan Scarf

I made my mom a scarf for her birthday.

I did it in record time (for me!) of 7 days.

I used the Saroyan pattern by Liz Abanante (Ravelry link).

I used super soft Misti Alpaca worsted weight yarn and the scarf turned out to be awesome and she loves it.

Great pattern, well written and easy to follow. If I make another though, I will choose a yarn that is less soft and drappy and that would hold the stitch defination a bit better to show off the leave edging.

Another thing -- the way the pattern is written was a little confusing to me. There is a row that says to P2tog, bind off three stitches. To me that means to P2tog then to bind off the next three stitches but in this pattern it means to P2tog then to bind off that stitch you just created plus 2 more. It was easy enough to figure out, though a beginner would have troubles with that.

Here's a few more photos:

600 yards of awesome

Rowan Kidsilk Haze
70% Mohair, 30% Silk

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Zombie Monsters

After my long and arduous quest for Lorna's Laces yarn in the Zombie BBQ colourway to make monsters out of .. I finally did manage to pick up 4 skeins of worsted weight and 6 in dk weight from Jimmy Beans Wool when the Green Organic line was on sale.

I made up a couple monsters using the Kat the Kitchen Monster from Rebecca Danger's new book.

Now, I’m not too sure if I like them much. They are very zombie-ish, as they were meant to be. Green and bloody and brainy and icky. I do much prefer the cute non-zombie kind of stuffies but I had the urge to make zombies this time.

 

I did have an idea to make a removeable brain on the little guy made from the DK weight.

Then I remembered a crocheted brain hat I'd seen in a magazine awhile ago.

 

(I really need to make myself a hat like this and wear it on a daily basis just for fun.)

I figured I could work up a mini version for this monster. I didn’t want the whole brain since only part of his brain was coming out as it was being eaten by the bigger zombie monster. duh.

The larger one, made of the worsted weight wool pooled really bad. I was pretty upset about it at first but it turned out well since it looks like his heart is bleeding a wound down his side. gross, eh.

Anyhow, I have a tons of Zombie BBQ yarn I’m not sure what to do with because I'm not too interested in making anything else out of it. Will probably send it away on swaps. I will, however, definately work with Lorna's Laces yarns again. It’s so super soft and nice to work with but I’m just not that grooving on the Zombie BBQ colour itself after all that. Give me reds and pinks and yellows, instead!

Ohh --- and the company whose yarn I made these out of ---- Lorna's Laces -- messaged me on Ravelry to ask if it was ok that they post my Zombie BBQ Monsters on their facebook tomorrow. I said yes, of course. Neat, eh!