Abalone pattern

I've finished pattern for Abalone, you can get it on Ravelry as a free download!

lace and other

Spinning this took forever, buy it's way worth it. I have around 700 - 800m lace from one braid of Hedgehog fibres silk/merino fibre and it's dreamy. So shiny and soft and lovely, I also love the colour, subtle, just to my liking.
I think it deserves a special project

These two are handspun yarns from my stash, I didn't particulary like the colour of either, so in black dyebath they went. I started with this:


and got this. I love the depth of colour

And from this

to this.I'm knitting a hat from this one for miki, he likes the colour a lot


This is my current spinning. I found this in my stash, I'm pretty sure it's Hedgehog fibres merino top.

Can't wait to see how it'll turn out. I'm doing fairly chunky 2ply, so I hope it will be a fast project.

still knitting

I finished the jumper as you could see from my previous post. I just added button, which I absolutely adore, such a great find. It's a wooden stick made from metal!



Also I now have these. They are Regia sock yarn, Kaffe Fasset collection in Celebration, Landscape line. And they match! I'm verry happy with them. I had lots of leftover yarn too, like half a ball.
I used 'afterthought heel' technique, I basically made a sock without a heel and I added the heel after the sock was finished. I really like this technique, it's fool-proof no holes heel and it also looks pretty. It also makes self striping yarns look like a V on the heel as you can see in the last picture, lovely little detail.

These are my most colourful project so far.

Happy New Year!

This Sunday we had real snow here in Cork! Buster and Lola had so much fun and we also took few pics of the jumper I finished a while ago.


We had Buster with us from Christmas until yesterday, here's him with his tree. Lola tried to steal it from him, but she couldn't lift it...