Friday 26 April 2013

Almost like knitting in miniature

Besides the knitted jumpsuit you saw on the earlier post I have not knitted much. I have lots of ideas on what to knit, but I have been bit restricting my knits, because I would not like to buy more yarn and most of the yarn I have is quite itchy wool and I don't think that would be too good on baby's skin. I do have some cotton and just some baby wool.
 

From the baby wool I've made a pair of thumbless mittens and two pairs of quite standard socks. The green ones with the weird cuff are in Finnish called "train socks", maybe because the vertical stripes remind of tracks. Mine don't have exactly the right amount of tracks, but I will call them train socks anyway. These small things I must admit are really fun to knit because those finish so quick.

I also knitted a hat for the kid. It's the Aviatrix hat from Ravelry, it first looked quite complicated but it was really fast to knit and I learned a new knitting technique which is always fun. I used the Drops Alpaca yarn on this one, it was left over from the Icelandic gardigan, it is quite silky yarn. I hope it's not too itchy.

6 comments:

  1. Too cute! I love that cap, especially. And mitts are a great idea--babies scratch themselves so easily and it can be tricky to cut their tiny fingernails.

    Are you familiar with Alicia from Posie gets cozy? She has knit diaper covers out of wool, I believe. (I may be confusing her with someone else, though.) Apparently wool over cloth diapers eliminates odor and helps keeps things nice and dry. Maybe th oil in the wool does it...so you'd have to be careful of the wool you chose.

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    1. I've been reading about cloth diapers and I noticed that wool is often used as a cover. I think it's the oil, because the covers need to be treated from time to time with some oily stuff.

      I don't know about Posie gets cozy, I'll look it up. Thanks.

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  2. Leena, are you discussing baby names, yet?

    You and A will want to see this.

    http://www.funnyist.com/11-geekiest-baby-names/11/


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    1. Haha, luckily those would never pass the "name board" of Finland.
      But we have been listing some names on paper that we like.

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  3. That hat is so cute. And I love Ravelry too, that's an amazing site.

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    1. Thanks, it's really small, quite hard to tell from the picture, but it really is for a newborn.

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