Death comes in small packages

Made this shirt as a Christmas gift. My first project with the new overlock sewing machine I bought in autumn. Quite fast and nice project but I definitely need more practise with the overlocker. But since it looks like our family is growing with one in May, maybe I get enough of that practise when I´ll start sewing baby clothes. With this project I was pretty much happy with. The only visible (read: disturbing) mistake I made was there in front at the neckline. Luckily I had one matching colour button that hid the mistake perfectly. :D

Made these socks for a friend as a Christmas gift. The yarn is from Novita, I think it´s Nalle. Once again, just normal socks, nothing really special about them.

      Some projects finished and sent to Sweden. Fabrics for the dress and bag are from Eurokangas. Cotton and denim. The patterns are from the book Mekkotehdas. The cat picture I bought about a year ago (I think) from Handicraft Expo. (I still have two or three cats in storage for later use.) And the bunnies are (once again) from Kui design, sewn together by me. Kui design sells ready-made bunnies as well but I bought these as fabrics. They clean up their storage of left-overs and misprints every now and then and these bunnies had some minor "flaws" on them and were therefore cheaper.

A hooded dress for myself. Fabric again from Kui design . The striped fabric inside the hood is a leftover. I used as a pattern a combination of my old hoodie and Vilma from the book Mekkotehdas Aikuisille. Took a while to finish because I had to do the sleeves twice, the original ones were too long. But anyway, autumn is now welcome, although I don't mind warmer weather.

A coin purse I made for a friend. Big enough for mobile phone (so not necessary just for coins). Fabric from Kui design . I added a short chain so that the purse can be attached to for example bag handle and that way is easier to find from the bag.

Something that I finished a while ago. A dress made with Blend Bamboo. Colors in the picture aren't quite correct. (And I was too lazy to iron it.) Light blue and silvery grey. Inspiration I got once more from Moda 6/2012.

Found this viscose (?) from Eurokangas. It was in their leftover bins and there was approximately 3 meters of it. I liked the color (sort of dark violet-blue) and the picture so I bought it. First idea was a dress and dress it became. The picture on the fabric was a bit challenging but after all I think I nailed it. The dress is a bit longer than knee-length and it has a zipper on the back. I think I'll wear this in the naming party for my nephew.. IF ONLY I'll come up with shoes that compliment the dress properly.

When I sent the package of baby clothes to my sister I absolutely had to attach something to my niece as well. So I knitted a beanie for her of Blend Bamboo (which I used in her Panda pullover of which I don't unfortunately have any picture). It needed something more so I sewed a button taken from my old cardigan. I also made her a necklace of plastic pearls which continue the pink and light blue set of clothes I made her last year.

These diaper pants I knitted before my sister gave birth. Also made matching socks and mittens. Yarn is from Viking Garn and it is named Baby ull (colour 329) that I bought from Lankamaailma. Pattern for the diaper pants is from Moda 6/2012. Here is a picture of the whole baby package I sent to my sister. Hopefully they fit and will be used.

 I absolutely fell in love with this fabric. It's named Pupuset (=bunnies) and I bought it from Kui Design 's Local shop. They sell similar clothes made of this fabric but I wanted to do these myself. It came cheaper and is more personal. The fabric is organic cotton so even that should work with the baby skin.  I made these clothes in size 62 (cm) and all the patterns are from Ottobre 6/2009. These were in the package I sent to my sister's son. There was some black star fleece left from the fleece hoodie/shirt I made to my nephew Weeti. I made pants of the leftovers. The only sad thing about these clothes is the fact that these are so cute I wish I had a kid of my own who could wear these..

Made a blanket for a new family member. My sister gave a birth to a son in April so I made a whole package: blanket and baby clothes. The baby blue star fleece I bought from Jättirätti and the panda is ordered from Spoonflower. Didn't think about at all and I just fell in love with a couple of fabrics and ordered quite a lot of them. Paid my dues when I got info from the customs.. I had to pay a bit extra for the fabrics because of that. Next time I order every fabric separately and in smaller pieces.. One thing that I didn't get in to the pictures is a "secret" message on the blanket. To attach the fabrics to each others I sewed all sort of hearts to the blanket as well as the word "Love". The word is upside down on the left hand side when panda side up.

Something to go with the batik beanie.

Summer beanie I crocheted for myself. A bit of a hippie feel, no?!

Earrings for myself by myself.

Something little to put in front of the balcony door, a crocheted carpet.

Necklace key chains for Valentine. Felted hearts made of Hahtuvainen. Pearly white fake leather is old left-over from leather pants I made years ago. Black cotton ribbon and heart lock from helmikauppa Blingi.

Some reinforcements to my handicraft book collection. Crocheting with the help of omA KOPPA , both book and blog. And seamless knitting from Saumatonta neulontaa. Already got so inspired by omA KOPPA that I started to crochet a carpet. Pictures of that later.

I was watching Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Collateral Damage last night and while watching it I made this. Just an ordinary cotton ribbon, black-silver pearls (bigger ones), black-clear pearls with infraction-look (smaller ones), metal heart and a lock. As easy as one-two-three, although my original idea was to make a rosary. I didn't have enough pearls for that so it became a necklace. Pearls and ribbon are bought from helmikauppa Blingi , metal heart I found from a street few years ago and the lock was given to me as a part of a birthday or Christmas present.

So far the best knitting work I've done this year. Mittens from Novita Puro, color named Rusko. I got the yarn from Reija , my sister-in-law. I used knitting needles size 5,5mm. After knitting I threw these in to the washing machine. And the end result is really warm felted mittens. First time I felted anything and the end result is pretty much what I hoped for, although they could have been a bit bigger so I could fit gloves inside them. Oh well, maybe next time.