New hat pattern - Tuintje

This cute little hat - beanie or beret depending on your taste - is a quick knit in worsted weight yarn (or fingering yarn held double as with the pickles merino tweed). It features a ribbed brim, a flower wreath and if you wish, a contrast coloured crown. 

The price is 25 NOK, just over 3 USD.
Today, and till noon tomorrow (Norwegian time)
you can get 50% off using the coupon code valentine. 
You find the pattern here.

"Eventyrlua" - Fairy Tale Hat in English

   The hat "Eventyrlua" has been available in Norwegian for a little while, you can see the Ravelry projects here.

The pattern was inspired by the Fairy Tale Flower mittens, "Eventyrblomster" from the mitten e-book, "Mittens from the Fairy Forest".

It was fun to figure out how to make the brim. 

Using slip stitches, you only work with one colour at a time. 

(Don't look too closely, though, I see a mistake in the colourwork.)

Here's the hat test knitted by Wenche. She chose not to swap main and contrasting colour in the different panels. She even has matching mittens!

Like it? You find it on Ravelry, or you can click the buy now button. 

Holiday shawl knitting #2

I was able to finish a 2nd shawl during the holidays. This is the pattern 

Roma shawl by Kirsten Kapur - finished at Christmas, as you can see.

I have made it once before. I love the contrast between the lace and the garter stitch stripes. 

Details on Ravelry.

I wrote in the last post that I don't knit shawls. Obviously, that is not entirely true, when I look at my Ravelry page, I find that I've actually make four of Kirsten Kapur's shawls before. Her patterns are very well written, and many (the ones I have chosen among others) do not have very complicated lace. 

Holiday shawl knitting

As you might have noticed, I don't knit many shawls. 

And I don't knit socks. But still I tend to buy sock yarn....

So, this Christmas holiday, since we've been travelling, 

I brought sock yarn, long circulars and three shawl patterns. 

First out was Pebble Beach Shawlette by Curioushandmade. 

I have been listening to her podcast for a while, 

almost since the beginning last year, I believe,

 but hadn't knit any of her patterns yet. 

It was about time. (Do check out her podcast, if you haven't already!)

The pattern was easy to follow, easy to memorize 

(I don't like complicatede lace) 

and I loved the percentage system, 

that told med how far I had come at every point 

(every 5%, to be exact).

Still, my visual brain would have liked a little chart too. 

When on holiday, you can block your shawl between two closet doors.

And you can knit everywhere!

Details on Ravelry. 

And I did finish in time for Christmas.

More mittens from the fairy forest

I suppose you remember Soria Moria, the mystery mittens?

We, the knitters in the Mitten Guild, test knitted mittens all the mittens, and here are the mittens I knitted, designed by some of the others

Blueberry Land

Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Suitors of Mrs Fox

And here all the seven mittens from the e-book. 

A few days ago, we published the second e-book, "More mittens from the fairy forest", but as the first e-book, it is published first in Norwegian, and later in English. You can find all the patterns here.

Sleeping Beauty Mittens

These are my second pair in the Mitten Guild's e-book with mittens from the Fairy Forest.

Photo 1 and 2 by Ann Myhre

Again, you might have seen these before, but the pattern is now available in English, so I'm sharing the mitten fun on my English blog too. Ravelry page here.

Fairy Tale Flowers Mittens

You might have seen these on my Norwegian blog, or on Ravelry, but since we now have published the e-book in English, I thought I'd share my mittens in the book here too. You find the pattern page on Ravelry here.