I love me some swaps

After I joined Ravelry and all those lovely groups I've gotten into swapping, or trading. I've gotten rid of some yarns I thought were pretty when buying, but noticed that I hated after I knitted them. In the past I was lousy at selling things and didn't get anywhere with trading, so I just gave things away to charities. With yarns I didn't know if there was anyone who would like them, so I just kept my growing pile of uglies.

I'm posting about this today, because I just received a package from mebersillver from Minnesota. She didn't have to send it, but she did anyway:

Lovely wool/alpaca mix from her local farm! <3


I've also traded a book with maigret from Canada to these babies:

Localish Peter Rabbit yarn (angora) and quiviut (!), which I was carrying around in my bag for a week just to hug it time to time.


Second swap occured with curiouskate from Germany, when she spotted my these uglies:

 I traded them for some sockyarn, which I currently need most for mittens and socks.

 Yes, I'm very happy with my new swapped yarns.

Spring Cleaning

I sorted out my stash today, threw out some leftovers and removed yarns I'm going to give to my crafts group, put some of the yarns to more "permanent" box, yarns I'm not likely to use soon. Here's pics from before, middle and after:

Other than that, I've knitted about 35% of the shawl, despite it being boring, mittens are coming slower. First mitten is halfway of the thumb.

Lazy April

Now that the HP Cup is on spring break, I've been rather lazy in many ways. I started to knit this Revontuli shawl but then I realized, that as much as it is simple, it is boring to knit. I need something to watch while doing it. Lots of something. :D

When I realized that, I started to knit colourwork mittens from a Finnish book, which has 100 traditional patterns, it was published in 1947. (Sata Kansanomaista Kuviokudinmallia) It is very popular book even outside Finland and they are going to reprint it this year again, my fingers are itching... 30€ is quite salty price for my budget. Here's where I am so far with the mittens:

They are from Hamina, southern city on the shore.