#started 2024

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Locally sourced Alpaca yarn from my hometown (ca. DK, 200 m per 100 g):

Hubris (thumb for scale):

(Finnish 2+2 F2 stitch)

I have a hat in mind...

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I finally spun your rolags!! All into one bobbin that I then chainplied ^_^

This is wonderful and squishy and Somft 💕💕💕

Also, changing a lot in thickness from start to finish because I had to pause for a while bc no time...

Not sure yet what I'll make from it, but until then I'll feast my eyes on it and squish it with much delight!

Thank you very much!!! 💕💕💕

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Even more Bunny Keychains

I made moar!! xD

A strawberry bunny, an ender bunny, a lemon bunny and a blue bunny!

Pattern: Bunny Amigurumi keychain by Mariska Vos-Bolman

Yarn: Schachenmayr Catania

Hook: 3 mm

The blue one (complete with the feet) was part of a birthday present for a friend of Kid 1:

I made a drawstring bag for a card game she wanted, and the bunny as a little extra ^_^

Pattern: winged it

Yarn: Drops Paris in black, and Schachenmayer Catania

Hook: 5.5 mm

The drawstring is the same colour as the bunny and i made it with my lucet.

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More Bunny Keychains

I made more xD

White for Kid 1, orange for niece, green for Kid 2, and a black Void Bunny for bf.

Pattern: Bunny Amigurumi keychain by Mariska Vos-Bolman

Yarn: Schachenmayr Catania

Hook: 3 mm

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Little Bunny Keychain

Kid 1 is invited to a birthday party and I crocheted a cute little keychain for the birthday kid ^_^

Pattern: Bunny Amigurumi keychain by Mariska Vos-Bolman

Yarn: Schachenmayr Catania Flammé (258)

Hook: 3 mm

Modifications: The embroidered nose has 2 stitches instead of one xD

That was quick and easy and I wanna make at least 2 more for my own kids ^_^

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My kids bought themselves these cute sleepy plushies and I knit them each a tiny lil blankie:

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Dice Bag of Holding

I started a new project!

With selfspun yarn, yay!

I've done all the increase rounds, working on the "walls" already.

It's gonna have sections!

I need a Dice Bag with sections xD

Hook: 5 mm

Yarn: selfspun, but I'm to lazy to look up with which fibers

Pattern: Medium Divided Dice Bag by Michelle Hall (paid pattern on Ravelry). She also has a Large version of the bag for the big Dice Goblins <3

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I'm nålbinding a hat for a friend, in Korgen stitch (FS 1+2 F1), tentatively hoping to get it done for his birthday next month, but... well, I'm dealing with time, body and energy restraints, so I won't push me and he'll get it whenever it's finished. He won't need it in summer anyway xD

Anyway, le hat has a bump at the top!

I didn't make the bump on purpose it just happened, and I think it did so for 2 reasons:

First, my counting was off bc of how I used the stitch marker. I was still figuring that out and it is still kinda complicated because i still don't know the structure well enough to say "if I bind into this loop from the last round, this corresponds to this loop in the new round i'm making".

I dohave figured out a way now that still goes mainly by vibes, but is a little more precise I think.

Second reason for the bump, is my tension. It's gotten more, well, tense, which you can actually see in this picture of the wrong side of the hat:

The bump has much looser stitches, and the rest of the fabric is denser!

And that's because i started pulling a little on the "off-thumb loop" of the Korgen stitch, so that it's like half way between "thumb thickness" and "thick end of the bone needle thickness".

So that's a thing I learned from this hat, and I'm very happy with it :D

I am pondering whether to remove the bump, like, cutting it out and putting in a flat center, or not. Leaning on leaving it in for the time being, because I don't know if i want to put the extra hassle on myself, also it doesn't look that weird on the head.

By the way, the round I'm doing now?

It's the *stitch 12, increase* repeat ** round x_X I have never had this many increase rounds with a hat before, and I am 100% sure that there's so many counting errors in there xD

Sometimes I start a stitch, counting, and when I finish the stitch I don't remember what I counted! Like, I do have the RAM of a goldfish sometimes o_O But! One day I will have figured out how to "read" the fabric, so that I can find that last increase and count again from there! xD

Counting stitches is my nemesis, and projects that involve a lot of counting, always take the longest time.

I'll be so glad once the increase counting is over omg xD

So, yeah, that's my current WIP ^_^