Space invaders wristband

To create new patterns it is also good to learn some new techniques. Last week I started to play around with double knitting and to keep it simple I started out with a small wristband with a space invader on it. I made two different versions and this is the one I'm most satisfied with and now I have a good idea on how I like to do my double knitting.

I really like the possibility to turn it inside out, keeping the same pattern but with reversed colouring. The finished project is also very warm as the yarn is duplicated and it is likely that I will be using this for future projects when working with only two colours.

The pattern is available for free at Ravelry.

Paradroid mittens

A friend of mine asked me to make short-fingered mittens for him and started pitching ideas on what the pattern should be. He's a big C64-fan so most ideas were based on that. He finally settled on the robots from Paradroid. As I'm mostly a Nintendo-guy I had little knowledge about this game, but after some googling and discussions we came up with a good pattern. After the yarn arrived I completed these in record-time and I'm really satisfied with the outcome of this. My technique is really improving with every new thing I knit.

Link to the pattern at Ravelry.

Pacman and Blinky headband

Who's our favourite circular 8-bit hero?
Pacman of course.
This pattern was one of the first I got the idea for and it was very satisfying to finally make it.
It feels like I'm starting to get the hang of the whole knitting thing and I'm extremely happy with the outcome of this.
As mentioned in last weeks post, I'm working on the matching scarf for this set and it seems like I'll be able to finish that in the upcoming weeks.

As always, I have also posted this pattern on Ravelry.

Curly bracket mittens

Time for the weekly update. Been working on a Pacman scarf all of January and it seems to never get finished. However, I have some already finished projects to display here meanwhile =)

So, up this week is a pair of mittens that has no relation to 8-bit things at all. I made these as a gift for a colleague that was nice enough to be support backup during the christmas holidays. The curly brackets, { and }, are used in the syntax for C# (and some other programming languages) which is what we use at work. Perfect mittens for coding at our ice cold office.

The pattern is as always available on Ravelry.

8-bit mushroom mittens

Happy new year! It's time for the first post of 2016 and I start off with a pair of mittens I completed mid-december last year. They are the fourth component of the matching mushroom set and now I only have the socks left according to my original plan and so far I haven't come up with any new ideas for additional mushroom accessories. The socks must however wait a bit as I'm still trying to figure out where to put the mushroom =)

So, back to the mittens. They are made to wear inside when it's cold and I'll probably mostly use them at work as it's really chilly. Also perfect for playing your favourite game this cold season.

Pattern is of course as always available on Ravelry.

Christmas presents

Back in business after a short christmas break. This year we had a secret santa version for the gift giving and my wife got me. She got me my own set of wooden double pointed needles, so I can stop using hers all the time, and some mushroom stitch markers. Very suitable presents indeed =)

I have also finished some projects during the holiday and the patterns will be coming up in the beginning of 2016 when I have written the descriptions properly. Until then I wish you a happy new year!

8-bit mushroom scarf (with secret pockets)

Finally the description and chart is finished and uploaded to Ravelry. This was a big project for me and took some time to finish. Starting to get better at switching between colors, but in retrospect it would have been better to start of with some simpler projects before taking on these ones with lots of different colors. However, I'm really satisfied with the scarf and have the next pattern in the collection lined up for photos and description writing. Hopefully it will be up before christmas.