Friday Fancies and Finishes

It is Friday and I have not only one, but two finishes!

A dress and a skirt! One for me and another baby finish.

I had a hard time with the sewing, luckily for me I had a good sensei teaching me, although I finished I am not yet confident enough to make one on my own so I am hoping A can come by and sew with me some more. But I do love my skirt, not as much as the original, and there are a lot of room for improvements, but still I love it and it fits too, even after several bites of cake.

My knitting adventure is still not quite finished, I still have 18 or so rows to go before doing the weird sewing together and coupling and what not before making the lining. But I wanted a finish first so I stuck with these two which payed off.

The Angel Wings pinafore with the Angel Pop over dress. I like both patterns but I think a merging of the two might be more useful.  The first is open all the way down with lots of buttons which I don't think is particularly useful and the latter might have too small an opening for a baby head.

I made my Angel wings pinafore closed by sc-ing up each side and then sc-ing them together up to the neck lining so that a big baby head can fit through. I need buttons still, but I didn't have anything that fitted, so that and the jacket is not quite finished yet, but that can wait a bit I think.

As you can see this dress is shorter than the other but wider.

I used 119 grams to finish this.

I prefer the dc's in this dress over the trebles in the pop over dress but I like the neck lining a lot better in the pop over dress. So I am thinking making a third dress with elements of both, and I want to make an opening on the side where the increases go if possible...

And I still have two and a half balls of pink yarn from Mister M going yarn shopping.

Other things I am making is another gacha stitches pattern. I am making two in fact, one in cotton and one in wool, one with each square separate and the other three in a row.

Can you guess what we are making?

Bunnies are chilling, we need more chilling in this world I think.

Mister M and I had sushi again whilst watching QI.

And I have been doing lots more board games this week, when we finally understood it, elevenses was rather fun, not as fun as Zombie Fluxx but still more fun than sewing on the sewing machine which does not want to do what I want it to do. And btw E2 didn't know why the underline thread thingy misbehaved so last time either, so there.

Oh, and Mister M had a lot of fun with his aunt and apparently I am approximately 67,19% Norwegian, 18,75% Sami, 13,28% Swedish and 0,78% Dutch and one of the Swedish prosents may be Belgian or something. Rather amusing if you ask me, Mister M seems to have almost as many nationalities in his family history as I do.

Vilje Gjør ting hun ikke kan

or

Vilje does things she does not know how to do

like knitting,

My knitting adventure is slowly progressing, I am not so sure I am getting better at it, I might just do too little to have any real progress to show regarding skill and confidence. But I am progressing in the sense that the jacket is nearing completion. I have under thirty rows left to do on the body before I am to something with the stitches on the threads and then sewing together under the arms before picking up stitches on the sides and arms and then somehow it will be finished. Sometime this year I hope....

I do like knitting I just don't feel like I have any clue about what I am doing and why,

sewing

Other things I am doing that I have no idea how to do is sewing, somehow I have got it into my head that I can sew a skirt, one of my favourite skirts are dying a little so I wanted to make another... Encouraged by sewing friends I somehow ended up with buying lots of fabric and with the help of my one my friends I have sewn all the panels, trouble is I have no idea how to continue, I am a total n00b. But I did get the hang of changing the under thread thing since I had to redo it about a  hundred times because somehow I did it wrong and I made a lot of knots and mess.... 

I love my fabric choices. Apparently I like flower prints, but they didn't have any geometric-like fabric designs, I wanted something swirly or wavy with the flowers but I had to settle for the bunnies.

And then I am still doing some on the things I can do, which I am good at. Another baby dress is started and the second baby cardigan is finished, just needs buttons and I am not sure if I want to sew on the pink ones I already bought, am thinking about something white... So a proper finish will come when the buttons are all on and done!

The baby cardigan weighed 100 grams so exactly two balls of yarn in hot pink from Drops Baby Merino, that pattern was Flower Power Cardigan by Nicki Trench.

socializing

Regarding life and other things I have done lately here is an update. 
Mister M is coming down with something, but we have been busy these past days, playing board games, FLUXX is a ton of fun, family dinner with sushi and prawns, out shopping with friends twice, eating pizza, making strawberry jam, and having a knit and natter session or two and listening to the rain inside with a cup of tea is always a treat.

So that is what I am focusing on, finishing my knitting jacket, baby dress and sewing something. Possibly also one of the ongoing baby blankets.... Also I do want to play more Zombie Fluxx.

What are you up to?

Still skirting

Still doing my skirt, I am now about halfway I think. It is warm and good on my lap while I work on it which is excellent because outside was minus 17 this morning and inside was only plus 17, so I spent quite a while drinking and holding my tea before my hands were warm enough to move, serves me right for waking up at four in the morning, right?

Bunnies were thrilled that I took out my grandparents old wooden thing to photograph the skirt, I thought it would look good for comparison.

Valmin chinned it....

....then Mimle chinned it....

And now I am not quite sure who owns it anymore.

Well at least I am making progress.

But honestly I would much rather be making a nice big WARM blanket in wool, but that is just how January is right? Maybe a new start is in order, I mean I have been meaning to make a baby blanket soon. Or I should dig out an old WISP blanket? 

In the mean time I think I will do a little more on this blanket  skirt.

Skirting the issue

I should be doing some projects on a deadline, but I am so engrossed in crocheting this skirt. I am having fun making it and hope it will be finished soon. I have started the decreasing already and used almost two skeins of yarn out of seven I think.

Bunnies and I slept most of the day today but I am awake now and watching Dexter which I am also quite engrossed in, have watched season one already it it is quite amusing.

Choo-choo

It is finish Friday! And I have a....

....start. 315 stitches per row. Sorry for the poor quality photo, but there isn't much light here in the evenings.

But it is on my 2016 wish list.

But I do have a semi-finish, not much bigger than it was about a year ago but I think it is big enough for our table, just need to weave in some ends.

Next stop: ending station, good night from the bunny train.