LunaKnit

This was my second time taking part of the Me Made May challenge - and the first time officially participating. I wear something me-made almost daily by default - I don't own store-bought knitted hats or woolen socks for example - but usually I just grab something on my way out or from the sock drawer and seldom really think about what I'm wearing. This year I've been trying to concentrate more on a functional wardrobe and knit more things that I need and love to wear, rather than just random stuff on a whim - things that aren't necessarily essentially my style even though I would adore the color of the yarn or have fun time knitting the pattern . So this challenge has been a good opportunity to see which pieces of clothing I keep wearing over and over again, and which ones are left on the shelves. During this challenge (and the pregnancy) I've noticed the shortcomings of my wardrobe even more evidently than before. There is a clear shortage of the so call

Today is the first day of June and officially summer (although you wouldn't believe it if you looked outside: it's storming and cold as h*ll) and May - as well as Me Made May - is once again over. May 24th: Visiting friends and family. This cardigan is probably the oldest me-made knitted piece of clothing that I have and still use. There is no pattern for it, it's something I made up as I knitted (this was my pre-Ravelry time, when I was only starting out and found it hard to find patterns that I wanted to knit, you know, something other than granny-like). I still hold it dear and use it from time to time even though it's knitted with some cheap yarn that is itchy and probably has a high synthetic fiber content because I always feel like I sweat a lot when I use it. May 25th: At work, again. It was a cold day so I was wearing a chunky cardigan. I don't really fit into my coat anymore (and I refuse to buy a new one for these last two months of the preg

May 19th: Office outfit. I love both of my Exeter cardigans, this is the first one I knitted. There's no hiding the baby bump anymore, so I'm not even trying to :) May 20th: Rainy day, so I wanted to wear something bright. The cute little Petites Boulles hat is just perfect to brighten up a gray day and I love my Van Gogh umbrella that I bought on my trip to Amsterdam: it almost makes me look forward to rainy weather! May 21st: These are my second pair of Astrid socks . I will show you more of them soon! May 22nd: Another new project straight off my needles. This is my lovely little Hyperballad cowl ! May 23rd: And today we went shopping for baby stuff and also stopped to for coffee and macarons, because my feet started to ache from all the walking, like I need an excuse ;) Here's my Bough cowl !

May 12th: Wearing my Maeve shrug to lunch with my colleagues.  May 13th: I've been using both of my Drachenfels shawls a lot lately! I still can't decide which one I like the most, although I do love the Baby Alpaca Silk yarn I used for this second shawl more than the regular plain alpaca I knitted the first one with. I'm still amazed how the baby bump seems to get bigger by the day! May 14th: We enjoyed the sunny (but chilly) weather and took a long walk outside. Or actually it wasn't that long lengthwise: my feet have been a bit achy lately, thanks to the growing belly, but the walk took quite a long time anyway :) I was wearing my Aurora cowl . May 15th: Friday and I had a day off from work. I love wearing woollen socks around the house and these socks are lightweight enough to wear this time of the year. The cats, especially Milla, want to spend the whole day on the balcony like every summer, so the open balcony door causes chilly floors

May 6th: Frost in the morning, sunshine by noon, raining when I left work. The weather keeps changing and I'm trying to wear layers. My Dragonfields scarf is wonderful for days like these!  May 7th: I finished my second Harper so of course I had to wear it right away. The baby and the bump keep on growing, by now it's already week 27! May 8th: Luna wants to match my socks! I knitted these quite a while back using the Linesx3 pattern. May 9th: I spent a few hour seaming in the morning and my Aidez is finally ready! May 10th: The weather took a turn for the colder again. I was helping my mother with her garden and keeping warm with my Hutchin hat. May 11th: Monday and back to work! Hellebore is one of the few pullovers that still fit me...

I can't believe it's already May again: it feels like I only just did this challenge the last time and now it's time for it again! So here we go, the first five days of the Me Made May challenge.  May 1st: going out to buy ice cream on the first day of May has been our tradition as long as I can remember. Here I am, eating salted liquorice ice cream and wearing my Quadrillion sweater and Harper hat . May 2nd: Here's my new Drachenfels scarf . I loved my first one so much that I decided to make another one.  May 3rd: Sunday sofa time. Watching TV and wearing my Ornette socks. May 4th: Back to work after a long weekend. In desperate need of caffeine, cue the large cup. The baby seems to be immune to coffee, thank God, otherwise I would surely have been a human punching bag for the day. And I'm so glad to be wearing my newest cardigan, the second Exeter , I'm already thoroughly smitten with it! May 5th: Today was a bit chilly so I

It's almost that time of the year again! Last year I only heard about Me Made May challenge in the first few days of May and missed the official sign-up. I had a guerilla-me-made-May instead trying to wear at least one me-made garment each day of the month even though I wasn't officially participating in the challenge. It was actually a lot harder than it seems like: usually I automatically have something self-made on me - a hat, a sweater, pair of woolen socks - but now I really had to think and plan what I was wearing instead of just spontaneously grabbing something on my way out. To add to the challenge May last year was exceptionally warm here in Finland so wearing something woolen wasn't the first thing I had in my mind every day. Not that I was complaining: I would always choose sunny days over sweater-weather. This year I made sure I signed up for the Me Made May challenge in time. I will also post my pledge here for all of you to see:  I, Sari from

The Me Made May is now over. Took me a while to get the last photos up, because my sister came for a surprise visit over the weekend.  After the super-warm weather the previous week, summer took a little detour and it got chillier and rainier again. So on Monday I had my Tuscan Sky lace scarf wrapped around me, and on Tuesday I needed to wear this traditional fair isle sweater (knitted a few years ago). Wednesday I was happy about knitting my own clothes so I can always have matching accessories, and Thursday was a bank holiday so spent the day lounging around the house. Last Friday was horribly cold and rainy and I had to wear mittens! Luckily I had just finished my Marrakech mittens so at least some kind of ray of sunshine for the otherwise gloomy day! And lastly, Saturday I was happy to wear my new scarf. Right now I'm knitting a new sweater; I'm calling it Evergreen at the moment but the name can still change. I'm trying not to cast on many more pr

Me Made May got a bit harder last week as the temperature soared to almost 30 degrees C. At least the mornings were a still a bit chilly so that I could wear a woollen jumper on my way to work. But no more hats or mittens for a while. Friday I wore my Stone cutter sweater. I had to work on Saturday so I took my Haruni scarf with me. On Sunday I wore an alpaca cardigan I knit a couple of years ago. I wore my Buttercream cowl on Monday. This was my Tuesday morning outfit, but by the time I got home from work, it was way too hot to wear it. Keiko sweater and Lin-lin shawl. Wednesday morning outfit, I made the cardigan couple of years ago, it's one of my favourites. By noon I had ditched it and wore only a t-shirt: another hot day.  Again, morning outfits, Thursday and Pine Bough Cowl. Friday nights going to the exhibition opening party at the museum. My Roman Holiday bolero. Saturday night chilling and cheering the Finnish ice-hockey

Monday: Keiko sweater. (My herbs have started to grow, yay!) Tuesday: Crowning Glory Beret (and my favourite Star Wars t-shirt!) Wednesday: Cadence Socks (and the book I'm reading at the moment, Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale in Finnish) Thursday (today): Fuse cardigan and the lovely miss Luna. Also a sneak-peek of what I'm knitting right now: these are something I call Marrakech mittens at the moment although it's still just a working title... ... and the Dessine-moi Un Mouton sweater. I have finished the yoke and am about 10 cm done with the body.