Sort-of-quick knit: the K-shawlette

I've wanted to knit something green for a while, but all the greens I came across where not the right kind of green... and then while walking through a farmers market in Gammlia last September I found it! I would have liked the wool to be softer but I like that it was procured from a local source and my friend K looks lovely in it.

There is nothing that I like more than knitting for the people I love. Corny, but true. Here is a picture of the shawl, that is a free pattern by the lovely Wendy D Johnson. K is holding up the shawl on the day I gave it to her. I would have liked it to be a little wider, but I am happy that it was such a quick, happy knit!

WiP: blanket for my niece

Two of my brothers are fathers now (well, one is almost a father, with a baby due in January) and I decided I could make baby blankets for them. The idea that something I made in the north of Sweden will keep those little cuties warm all the way in Guatemala city makes me happy and feel like I am not so far away.

These are some pictures of Erika Knight's first blanket. I already finished the body of the blanket and I'm making the edging now. I chose a lovely deep blue thinking of how pretty it will look with my niece's black hair.

This is a picture of the blanket, knitted in garter sticth

And this is a picture of the edging, which is what I'm working on now. I wish my iPhone had taken a better picture, but I take what I can get!

Stupid gauge

I was very excitedly making a pair of poor poet's mitts and then, as I was finishing the thumb gussed I had this strange feeling: are these too small for my hands?

Yes, yes they were. I had to rip them out. I will give it another go with larger needles. I am such a loose knitter that I usually have to worry about my knitting being too big.

Must learn to measure gauge, must learn to measure gauge.