Socks for my sister

I knitted these socks for my sister for her birthday. The yarn is Schoeller Stahl's Fortissima Socka and I used 2½ mm needles. They are just basic socks, but the colors are nice and my sister's favorite colors.

Pippi Socks

I got inspired by the colors of my Seven brothers and decided to do crazy stripey socks. The stripes are made at random, but I think the end result looks kind of cool. They actually remind me of Pippi Longstockings.

I think this is the sixth pair of socks I've made this year, so I'm not even halfway through this year's challenge.

Correction: this is my seventh pair, so I am over halfway through.

Train socks

I knitted two pairs of baby socks for a charity. The socks are given to newborn babies in the local hospital. The pattern is called Train Socks, the yarn is Sirmione sock yarn, and I used 2½ mm needles. One pair was actually knitted during a train ride from Vaasa to Rovaniemi and back.

Socks for charity

Our project this year is to knit thirteen pairs of socks in 2013, and here are my first pairs. These are for a charity cause in Vaasa. The socks are donated to children for example in an orphanage. These are all basic socks made with Novita 7 veljestä and Novita Nalle (second from the left), and the sizes range from 42 to 26.

32 squares

 Here are finally pictures of the squares I've made for two different afghans. The first 16 are blue, turquoise with touches of yellow, red and green.

And the next 16 are green, yellow and brown. Tessa inspected the squares and she approved.

More dusting...

Got a lot of bamboo yarn left from the sky scarf project and have been crocheting dusting rags out of it. Bamboo is supposed to be very good for dusting and cleaning. Hope so! The one above is a lighthouse dusting rag for a friend I visited in München this summer.

This one is for the same friend in München, she refused to use the lighthouse for dusting...

I have crocheted a couple of more, but forgot to take a photo before giving them away. So stupid of me!

Granny bag

Here's a granny square bag we made together as a farewell gift to our third knitknicker. We both made 16 squares with Novita Wool in two shades of brown and two of turquoise.  We used brown to put the pieces together and for the handles. The idea was that this would be good for carrying knitting projects, let's hope it will be in a a lot of use!