Guess what!

I finished it!

I only had one round to go, so I finished it yesterday. Finally! I also ironed it, this time without spilling boiling water on my foot. I still hate picots though. One thing that sort of amazes me, is that I have a dog that is mostly black. So I thought that making a black doily would be a good thing, so that the hairs would not be as visible. But no. Some how, my Zelda thinks that shedding the black hairs is unnecessary, the white hairs however... I have no idea how I'm gonna get them off and out of this doily. I swear, I really tried to keep her and the hairs away, but still. Argh, all the hair. The doily measures 57 cm in diameter.(For comparison, the white one from earlier is 29 cm in diameter.) Still pretty happy about the final results, though!

Also, this is the other finished project I told you about earlier:

It is my first filet project. I know nothing about fileting, just the "idea" of it. And I did not follow any pattern. Well, I sort of did, but I drew the chart myself. I had to iron it, for the letters to be visible enough to read. Also, as you can see, the edges is sort of uneven. I guess I'll have to try some more filet, before I can tell you why it turned out this way. Anyways, for those of you not Norwegian, it says "Worlds greatest dad <3" My dad seemed happy, even though the uneven edges. Actually, he sort of lit up. I was going through my blog earlier, and I discovered, that I hadn't shown you my favorite doily. My first ever doily made in thread. I only had pictures of it together with the large version.

My first doily!

I'm sorry about the delay. I was going to make the next post about my pillows, but I decided to wait because of Christmas. But anyway. This post will be about my first doily. Me and my flatmate Tea realized we needed something to have on our sofa corner "table." And off course I went to Ravelry to find something easy and quick. And here is the result:


It is in fact very easy. As usual I used the Østlandgarn yarn. And I think it worked great. It would seem finer if I had used thin cotton thread, but it is expensive, and the doily would not be as big.

Fathers day is celebrated the second weekend of November in Norway, and I made a fruit basket for my father as a fathers day gift.



This time I made a different basket and it turned out a bit bigger than the one I made last time. But the fruit did not turn out any bigger so I think I need to make some more fruit to fill it up.