A little DIY six

Mum had this yarn, it's so soft, and she didn't know what to do with it, so I made her a couple of bracelets. They looked so kawaii that I called them "marshmallow bracelets".
Cast on 11 stitches.
1. Knit all
2. Purl all.
3. K1, C6f, K4.
(C6f = slip 3 sts on cable needle and leave in Front, knit 3, knit the 3 on cable needle).
4. Purl all.
5. Knit all.
6. Purl all.
7. K4, C6b, K1.
(C6b = slip 3 sts on cable needle and leave in the Back, knit 3, knit the 3 on cable needle).
8. Purl all.
Repeat rows 1-8 until desired length, sew ends together, weave in tails.

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A little DIY five

I knitted a beanie hat for bro. Consider this your birthday present, so happy waaaaaay early birthday, dear brother!!!
4 mm straight needles with #3 light yarn. The yarn label said it should be worked with 2 1/2 mm needles but I didn't think so, hehe.
Cast on 120 +1 stitches
I did a 3x3 rib for 4 cm and then I decreased 2 knit stiches and 2 purl stitches (K2tog, K1 and P2tog, P1)all the way through which left me with 81 stitches.
I knitted all for 16 cm and then I decreased on every knit row like this:
K2, K2tog. And the wrong side Purl all.
K2, K2tog. Purl.
K1, K2tog. Purl.
K1, K2tog. Purl.
K2tog. Purl
K2tog. Purl. This left me with 4 stitches, I finished by threading them with the tail with a tapestry needle and sewing the sides together. Weave in the ends.

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A little DIY four

A Welcome to Night Vale beanie!

So I found out about the podcast (Welcome to Night Vale) and decided to give it a try, first episode over and I'm a fan, yeap, I got converted like all the rest, it must have been the power of the almighty glow cloud that reached through the interwebz ang grabbed me, or maybe the subliminal influence of the whispering forest, who knows (maybe the faceless old woman that secretly lives in my house knows), anyway, I decided to try my hand at making some kind of fangirl DIY project and this is the result.

I used 2.5 mm straight needles and the appropiate yarn for them in three main colors (light purple, dark purple and some black).
The gauge would be: 1 cm width = 2 sts, 1 cm height = 4 rows.
Long tail method to cast on 120 stitches, plus one knit stitch as border.
I worked a 3x3 ribbing for 15 cm changing the colors as I liked to make the stripes and leaving enough yarn in the different-color tails to sew the sides together at the end.
Here began the decreases:
The parenthesis stitches are supposed to be repeated all the way through the row.
(K3, P2tog, P1)... end with K1. And wrong side: P1, (K2, P3). This is 100 sts.
(K3, P2)... end with K1. And wrong side: P1, (K2, P3). Repeat these two rows.
(K2tog, K1, P2)... end with K1. And wrong side: P1, (K2, P2). This is 80 sts.
(K2, P2)... end with K1. And wrong side: P1, (K2, P2). Repeat these two rows.
(K2, P2tog)... end with K1. And wrong side: P1, (K1, P2). This is 60 sts.
(K2, P1)... end with K1. And wrong side: P1, (K1, P2). Repeat these two rows.
(K2tog, P1)... end with K1. And wrong side: P1, (K1, P1). This is 40 sts.
(K1, P1)... end with K1. And wrong side: P1, (K1, P1). Repeat these two rows.
(K2tog). And wrong side: Purl. This is 20 sts.
(K2tog). And wrong side: Purl. This will leave 10 sts.

Leave a long tail, pass through the remaining stitches, pull to make a tight circle. Sew sides together (with the corresponding color) and weave in the ends.

Now, to make the half moon/eye in the sky, I had some left over yarn in a slightly different hue of light and dark purple, and white yarn. I just picked a place and started weaving them around. The yarns were thicker so that's why it pops up, but I like the effect.

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