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3 easy and versatile knitting patterns for babies and children 

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These patterns can be knitted for boys and girls, from birth up to the age of around ten. Maybe I’m not a very adventurous knitter, but at this stage of life, I want to knit something that I know for sure that it’ll fit well and look good after many many washes. Perhaps I should say that I’m a practical knitter. These are the patterns that I tend to lean on when my children need sweaters. On a tangible level, Knitting gives me an opportunity to provide my children with warm clothes made with natural fibers, but it’s so much … Continue reading 3 easy and versatile knitting patterns for babies and children 

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a Purple sweater

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I have been quite here, but very busy at home and outside, finishing projects, both knitting and sewing, but mostly organizing and reducing the amount of things we own and think we need… My latest finished project is this sweater, which has been a long time coming. The yarn was a birthday present from many years ago, and I finely admitted that I wasn’t going to knit a lace sweater any time soon, which was what the yarn was intended to. Instead I knitted a square gauge, found a suitable sweater and knitted. But one ball of yarn had a big hole which … Continue reading a Purple sweater

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Purple vest

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I think it was late Spring, or maybe early summer, since the midges were in brutal force, trying to eat us alive, as they do, a friend took me to a friend’s house so that we could help to make an herbal garden. There was one other herbalist staying there, and she was wearing an hand knitted vest that I really, really liked, she said it was the Hiker’s waist coat. In the summer of 2014 we went to Skye, we were tight on space and weight as we traveled by train on bikes, however I still managed to find a … Continue reading Purple vest

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road trip Hat

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Two or three weeks ago, I went on a long driving trip (four hours for me is quite long…) and I didn’t feel like knitting socks, besides I was sure I would finish the second sock, and then what? Besides I needed a hat (having lost my only one), so I decided to knit the “Jul hat” pattern by Wiksten with the Portuguese yarn Beiroa. Both the yarn and the pattern are lovely, the pattern is very simple to knit with just enough interest. I also enjoyed working with this yarn, however I find it a bit “itchy” for me, I’m … Continue reading road trip Hat

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yarn along

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Yarn along hosted by Ginny at Small Things. We’ve been house bound for… Three? Four days? We’re all ill, nothing serious, fortunately, but annoying nonetheless, so today I made the effort to drag us all to the library, for some fresh air and a new stack of books. One that I brought for me was this one, I’ve only read the first page, so not much to report. I’m starting a new pair of socks. I’ve been working on my Indigo vest, but I’ve hit a point where I’m making up the sleeves as I go, and this weekend I’m going … Continue reading yarn along

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Yarn along

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Yarn along hosted by Ginny at Small Things. I started knitting a vest, for me, with my indigo dyed yarn, so far so good! I saw the “last child in the woods” book at the charity shop, and even though I don’t need more encouragement to spend time in nature with or without my children, I bought it because I was curious after reading and hearing about it so much. Comecei no outro dia a tricotar um colete , para mim, com a lã que tingi com indigo, e estou a gostar muito do efeito! Encontrei o livro last child … Continue reading Yarn along

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another milo vest

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Some people don’t ever knit the same thing twice and that like to feel challenged by each knitting they take on, I’m not one of them. I prefer the kind of knitting that let’s you knit without paying much attention to it, the kind that I can take anywhere without the pattern or my notes, mindless knitting some may say. So, when a friend gave the very good news that they had a baby, I couldn’t think of anything else that would be more practical and fast to knit, than another milo vest, this time to be sent to Portugal. … Continue reading another milo vest

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unfinished projects

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I have two baskets full of unfinished projects, that need some attention to get going… To be honest, some of these projects have been like that for years… So, in attempt to organize them, now that I’m enjoying knitting again after a few months off ,  I took pictures of all the projects to create a kind of visual list of things to finish. This one has been given top priority. I started it in 2013, when I was pregnant of him, and now, the size is just right… So I must finish it soon! Most of it I knitted it … Continue reading unfinished projects