Death comes in small packages

It's been a while since I've updated the blogs. There's been quite a good reason because I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl who was named Julia Melinda. Even though my blogs have been quiet, I haven't had practically any rest. First two months our daughter woke up several times a night. third and fourth month she slept through the nights pretty well, from 6-7 hours a night but now she wakes again once or twice a night in the age of 5 months. Days have been busy taking care of her and the new appartment and when I've finally gotten some me-time I've spent most of it sewing. These beanies were ready before our daughter was born and I've used mine very much. Her beanie has been also well used but it's getting too small for her already. I ordered the fabric from Käpynen .

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.

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

Made a beanie to myself using Svarta Fårets Ullgarn 2-thread wool yarn. The yarn was a leftover from another project that I'll share with you later. Instructions for the beanie can be found  here . (Underneath the picture is a dropdown menu where you can change the language.)

    Original idea for the mittens: Jorik Linvik - Let's Rock.

 Celtic Beanie for my dad. Pattern from the book Son of Stitch'n bitch .

Plain and simple.  Stars  Skulls Skull Isle Hat (from Son of Stitch'N Bitch)

1.  2.  3. 4.  5. Have finished several projects but been just too tired to write about them and load up the pictures. But here comes finally some I've worked with lately. 1. Perfect Ten - the name comes from the fact that each sock have ten skulls on them. 2. Greenz2 - for obvious reasons 3. Woollen pants for my nephew, made from the sleeves of my old pullover. 4. Beanies for my brother and his wife from Puro. Made even one for myself. 5. Space Invaders & Teddybear gone fishing - shirts I made as a birthday present to my nephew about a month ago. I actually fell in love with the fabric on Space Invaders and would've wanted a shirt of it to myself as well but unfortunately there isn't any more of it so far I know..

A beanie for a friend of mine. Riku is a musician with tattoos and such and he started studying nature, fishing and hunting.. Made this design for him.. and him only. Named it Hirvivaara (Warning: elks.. or Moose danger..?!?) because the skull has moose antlers and a warning sign behind it. This should keep his head warm but the man himself pretty cool. ;)

Here is the package I sent to my Secret Valentine 2010, Kirsikka . The beanie has 14 hearts because the Valentine's day is on February 14th. Her blog has that certain type of old country romance vibe to it, so I got my colours from there. She also had some beautiful pictures of pillows with lace on them, so at the last minute I added those three laces to the package when walked by Eurokangas. Can you imagine, I made something without skulls.. ;) HAPPY VALENTINE!! Tällasen paketin lähetin Salaiselle Sydänystävälleni Kirsikalle. Pipossa on 14 sydäntä, koskapa ystävänpäivä on 14. helmikuuta. Kirsikan blogissa on tietynlainen vanhahtava, maalaisromantiikkaa huokuva tunnelma, joten valitsin paketin värit sen mukaan. Blogista löytyy myös kauniita kuvia hänen tekemistään tyynyistä, joissa on koristeena pitsiä ja niinpä lisäsin viime hetkellä pakettiin nuo pitsit, kun kävelin Eurokankaan ohi. Voitteko kuvitella, tein jotain ilman pääkalloja.. ;) HYVÄÄ YSTÄVÄNPÄIVÄÄ!!

Reija won my in my Christmas lottery and she asked for a hat or a beanie and this is the end result, this is what she won. The big flowers are removable, attached to the beanie with safety-pin.. Reija already had a picture in her blog where she had those two flowers moved to her jacket.