Naughty dog 🐶

Someone have been very naughty during the weekend....
Her highness 👑 🐶 didn't seem to appreciate the collar I fixed for her.
The first thing she did was to roll herself in some smelly 💩💩💩🙊🤬
That involved a shower and a serious cleaning of the collar...
I can tell you she was not a happy puppy 🐶

Then someone had left their slippers in a place that her highness could reach...
She is a dog after wool and will steal anything she can get her paws 🐾 on...
I can never leave any knitting or crochet with wool out or she will take it. Not to mention skeins of yarn...
I don't know how many she actually have ruined but it is a few over the years...
Not to mention crochet hooks and knitting needles and even glasses 👓...

Strangely enough she will mostly leave cotton yarn alone and crochet hooks and knitting needles aren't that interesting any more.

This time she managed to eat of the needle felted dog, so lucky as it was a easy fix.

It was so lovely and spring weather before the weekend. I even found snowdrops.
But now we got quite a bit of snow

Have a lovely day
Katrine 🌼 💚

Pjona [shepherd's knitting] mittens

Happy Friday friends 🌻♥️🌻
Wednesday we were having a road trip and I had my pjoning with me. So I finished the first pair and started a new one 😂😂
You might say I got hooked 😉

I thought you might wanted to learn how to pjone as well.
It's really easy, all you need to know is Slipstitch and chain stitch
So I made a tutorial how to pjone a pair of mittens.

Pjone mittens

Wool yarn
50g 50m
I used Drops Eskimo on my first pair
But you can choose what ever yarn you prefer.
Use a higher number crochet hook than suggested as the work should be loosely.






Chain 30

Slipstitch in first chain to make a circle.

Slipstitch in the back loop of the chain. Stitch loosely all the way around.

Just keep on stitching in the back loop for about 8 rows or as long as you want the cuff to be.

Slipstitch in the front loop from here.

Keep on stitching around until you reach the point where you want your thumb to be.
Ca 12 cm chain 5, skip 5 Slipstitches. Slipstitch around.

In the next row Slipstitch over the 5 chain stitches and keep working in the front loop.

If you rather would like to make fingerless mittens you can stop about here and add a few rows of back loop crochet

 When the mittens reaches the top of your fingers. Ca 13 cm.

Decrease by crocheting 2 and 2 together until there are 4 left.

Thumb
Slipstitch in the front loop in the 5 stitches you skipped for the thumb hole pick up a stitch in each side and Slipstitch in the 5 chain stitches. Work around until you reach the top of your thumb decrease by crochet 2 and 2 together until there are 4 stitches left

Make another one the same way. As it's tube shaped you don't have to think about what side to placing the thumb 👍😊

Sew the hole on the top of the mittens and thumb.
Weave in loose ends

It's important that the work should be loose.
You can of course play around with the back and front loop stitch to create a different pattern. And use a lot of different colours making them really happy mittens.
😊

Mittens

I found another project after finishing my hubby's socks 🧦
Typically I forgot to take a picture, but it's just ordinary boring socks anyway 🤣
I don't really like to knit socks.
So I started a much more fun project 👍
Pjoning a pair of mittens.
My father made me a pjone hook a few years back ❤️

I totally love it and I find it much easier to work with than using a regular crochet hook.
Using some yarn from my stash. This was left over from a sweater I knitted several years ago. I bought what was left because it was going out of production and I wanted to be sure I had enough.
Now I finally found good use for it.
I'm looking forward to new warm mittens.
And reducing my stash of yarn 😉My goal is to buy nothing new this year unless it's for a special project.

Pjoning is not very difficult it's just slipstitch and you can use your regular crochet hook.
Wishing you a lovely day 💚 🧶
Katrine 🌼 💚

Felted slippers

Finally I got back on track with this slippers I knitted and felted before Christmas. Now it was time to decorate them with some needle felt. I thought some dogs would be cool 😎 for my son.
I still need to sew some soles on, so they will not be worn out so fast.
I'm using leather form our old sofa for the sole.

I got just one decorated for my hubby
But I probably will try to do the second today. You can probably guess my hubby is a truck driver 😉

I was out of ideas for a new project, yes I know very strange. But I thought my hubby probably needs a pair of new socks 🧦 using some yarn from my stash. I am trying to not buy any thing new until I have reduced what I already have.

I will have to think about another project while knitting this socks. Hopefully I will get a brilliant idea or two.

It was such a lovely weather yesterday. I love taking landscape pictures. We have the most amazing nature here ❤️

Have a lovely Saturday 

Katrine 🌼 

The golden rule of mending

I found a tiny hole in the neckline of my favourite woolshirt.

I have mended it over and over as it is my favourite. It's so old I can't remember when I got it, but at least 15 years. And I am definitely not going to give up on it now.
After a closer look it was a lot more 🙉
It's the golden rule of mending. You will most likely find more.
There was quite much to do. But I didn't mind. It gets more special for every new mend.

I made a few roses in the back of the neck. Then darning the rest of the holes.
Actually I'm not done. I have a few holes left to darn.
Joining Evelyn for some Mondaymending

I will take a picture of the whole shirt when I'm done.
Have a lovely Monday ❤️
Katrine 🌼