Twins

Posted on 04/06/2013 by atelieroursonne

twin set details

I have shown those two cardigans already in my last post but as their new owners have finally made their appearance into the world I thought it is a good reason for a proper post – congratulations again to the happy parents.

When it comes to this blog, I have been a bit lazy lately… I have written many posts…. but only in my head and I really should get them online rather than wasting my time with knitting 🙂

But back to the cardigans. I’ve used again the Little Rascals pattern by Julia Stanfield.

As I made them for newborns I used this super soft gorgeous Rowan purelife organic cotton. I find it really special and as it is discontinued, I will really save my stock for very special new born outfits.

I made these for a set of twins, a boy and a girl, and initially planned to make them completely matching, just in different colours but changed my mind half way through. After all, the whole point of a hand knitted item is to be unique and very special. They have still similar enough features to be recognized as a set that belongs together but each one is individual – like those twins are. They belong together but they are also an individual each.

I decorated them both, the blue one with a simple whale, the pink one with a more eye-catching flower.

flower detail

To enhance the floral cuteness of the pink one, I added little flower buttons, to keep the blue one simple, I chose grey buttons and made only one big bold stripe in the middle rather than thin ones like on the pink one.

Unfortunately, I was unable to take good pictures…. the longer I am going to my photography class the more difficult it seems :)I had to give up eventually as the cardigans had to get to the babies before they will grow out of them.

blue newborn cardigan

pink newborn cardigan

Colours everywhere

Posted on 13/05/2013 by atelieroursonne

I don’t know about you but I really like strong and bright colours. Especially as it is all grey when I look out of the window. It is may though, isn’t it?

Maybe I suffer from some kind of parrot syndrome or lets call it rainbow syndrome, that sounds slightly better…. Anyway, I really love these few tops that I have knitted using the “Versa” pattern by Shannon Passmore. She has a great blog too: crafty-desires.blogspot.com

There is also more info on this pattern with even more pictures on my projects – page.

This blue-purple-red one, I made for my niece last year and I have been told that she has been wearing it a lot. And as it is a tunic, it fitted her for ages. In fact I think it still does:

bold colours with contrasting pockets

For the next two, I have used rather sunny colours, they remind me a bit of a sunset:

sunset colours, pockets and bow

I also really like the details. The bow is fully stitched on, I guess it would look nicer if it wasn’t so securely stitched on but I made it in a under 2 size so I wanted to be on the safe side. The pockets are really small as it is a small garment but my daughter always managed to get at least a tissue in hers and she just loved them.

I have used Lana Grossa Elastico Big for these. It really comes in great shades. It is a cotton yarn with 4% Polyester. I guess I can live with such a tiny amount, it still has all the good sides of cotton and is just more stretchy, which is very good for this type of garment that should sit closely to the body.

On the other end of the intensity scale there is this set of cardigans for newborns for hopefully soon to be born twins (and they better are the announced girl and boy 🙂 ) And even if I am normally a fan of bright and bold colours, I do like this yarn a lot. It is just right for tiny new babies. It is a discontinued yarn (Rowan purelife organic cotton DK) so I will only be able to make a few very precious little things out of my last stock anyway.

softness for newborn twins

I guess this project deserves its own post, hopefully with better pictures…. I just need time to catch up with everything I have done….

The Little Rascals

Posted on 07/05/2013 by atelieroursonne

The Little Rascals by Julia Stanfield is one of my favourite patterns. Actually it is a whole set of patterns, it is really clever and versatile and I wish I could come up with something as well thought-out as this pattern (and no I am not getting paid for praising her 🙂 ).

It is a seamless knit so you do not get those sometimes fairly bulky seams when you are using a thicker yarn and there are no troubles with armholes not quite meeting the width of the sleeves. Especially for children cloths I find those two criteria very appealing.

The other thing I really like about this pattern is the fact that it is knitted from top to bottom which means you can adjust the length much more easily and just stop knitting at the required length (even trying it on before cutting off the yarn) rather than doing complicated measurements and calculations in order to suit your particular needs.

Now, both techniques have existed before and have been invented by another very clever person (who should be praised for, too) but I just happened to stumble upon this pattern and it has been the base for a few sweaters so far. My own children and two nephews were lucky enough to get woolen ones for this winter, the next one to knit will be a summery cardigan for my niece.

Who would think that those two come from the same original pattern:

This is one that I have just made for a young boy, I quite like the slightly crazy eyes of the caterpillar, it must be really hungry:

And the best thing is that actually the pattern offers me lots of variations, sweater, cardigan or short sleeved vestee, different types of pockets, collar or no collar, hood or no hood,…

So those options plus my own ideas basically allow me endless and very individual designs which is just great.

Atelier Oursonne

handmade for you

Tag Archives: Knitting

Twins

Colours everywhere

The Little Rascals