My family is small and close. Four of us got together for Christmas this year at our summer residence: my mom, my aunt, my cousin and myself. We are one of those families where each year we say ‘No presents!’, but then end up giving some presents anyway. This Christmas, I gave presents of the knitted kind.
In the run-up to Christmas, I finished my mom’s Skärgård sweater:
And because she’s seen it and tried it on several times, she also got a book.
After I cast off mom’s sweater, I cast on another one, this time for my cousin: the In Between Dreams sweater by Meiju K-P. She really liked my Southampton soft because of the lace detail on the sleeves and originally wanted the same one, but liked the newly published In Between Dreams, which has a lace yoke even better. I am using the same yarn that I did for mom’s sweater, namely Drops Baby Merino.
However, I haven’t managed to finish her sweater, since I only started it last week, so I gave her this one and told her that her sweater shrank in the wash:
As for my aunt, well, she seemed to like the lace socks I made as part of Niina Laitinen’s Christmas KAL, so I decided to give her another pair of socks :P
These are the Kvartsi socks by Anna Johanna, one of three ankle sock designs in her Picot Love series. This was my first time using the provisional cast-on and making a picot edge and I was pretty pleased with how they turned out. The yarn I used was Regia Premium Merino Yak and I will definitely be using it again, because it feels warm, soft and luxe as all get-out.
