Swapetines: buenas noticias!

Hoy he tenido una buena noticia. Mi sorprendida, Georgina, de California, ha recibido su paquete con los swapetines! He tenido un buen alivio...no hacía demasiados días que los había enviado, pero siempre te asalta la duda de "...y si no llegan...?"

Las fotos que tengo no son demasiado buenas. Las hice justo antes de mandar el paquete y, por si fuera poco, un día me encontré borrando fotos de la cámara y aún no las había descargado, así que...esto es lo que he podido rescatar...

Patrón: River rapid socks de Socksbug.
Lana: Fortissima colori socka color.
Agujas: 2'5mm.

Rainbow set

I should have written this post some weeks ago but I haven't found time enough to write all what I wanted to tell...

I don't know if you had already noticed that I have more than one friend who has just had a baby...:-). This is the reason because latest weeks I have only been knitting baby clothes. It has been a new experience for me that I have really enjoyed. I've never imagined that knitting this small clothes could be so fun...

Here you are the "rainbow set" composed by a pair of "better than booties" socks and a baby cardigan. This time I took a skein of Fortissima colori socka color to knit a pair of "better than booties" but when I finished them I realised that I have only used a 10% of the skein. So, after getting some information from my mother to know how I could measure a baby, I started to knit this top-down cardigan with the same yarn.

Needles: 2,5mm and 3mm.
Yarn: Fortissima color socka color. Approximately 60 g.

The Rainbow cardigan is thought to match with "better than booties". I added similar ruffles to those used for the socks at the sleeves and the body edge.


Needles: 2mm.
Yarn: Fortissima color socka color. Approximately 10-15g.

One skein

Have you ever thought what you can do with only one skein of sock yarn? I hadn't till last month when I started to knit a pair of gloves for my mother with a skein of Fotissima colori socka color. It took almost a month to finish them but It's well worth the time I have spent in them. My mother has been really happy with her present...she shows them to everybody!

Pattern is mine. I used moreless the same pattern rules than with cool gloves but adapted to the yarn gauge. There are some cables in the upper side that difficult to see in this picture. I've been thinking about posting the pattern but I'm not good in maths...I don't know why, but I've got some troubles with the number of stitches in fingers part. I should think about it for a while...

My mother (and neither do I) don't have our hands too big. I only needed less than half skein to complete these gloves. So I decided to knit with the other half skein a pair of socks for my brother. I have already done a pair of ankle socks for my other brother and I knew that for that project I only needed aproximately 50 g of yarn.

But when I finished his socks I still had some metters of that lovely yarn. So, as I've got a new mobile as a Christmas present I decided to use it to crochet a cozy.