Space invaders headband

Time flies when you're having fun. This is actually the 10th pattern I've published (on Ravelry) since I started knitting a couple on months ago. Didn't really expect on keeping this pace, but I really enjoy the relaxation in knitting combined with watching TV-series, movies or (E-)sports.

Creating my own patterns instead of knitting existing ones is also a nice outlet for some of my creativity.

I also passed 100 downloads for one of my patterns (the curly bracket mittens) which also is amazing.

I'll keep posting new patterns for a while longer while I'm still inspired. If you have suggestions or requests for patterns, just contact me and I'll see what I can do.

Pacman and Blinky scarf

Been kind of ill the previous week and actually did not knit anything at all. Fortunately I've been stacking up on patterns to publish for a while so this week I give you the scarf to match the previously published headband with Pacman and Blinky.



This was a really long project for me and it took me almost a month to finish and I'm really happy with the result. It's really warm as it is double layered and with the winter we're having here in Sweden I have not used is as much as I thought, but there'll be more winters...

Find the pattern on Ravelry.

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.