Ulla: A Perfect Ten

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

The tenth issue of Finnish online knitting magazine Ulla (think Knitty or MagKnits) has just come out and it's amazing! There's tons of patterns from really talented Finnish knit-bloggers and I have a hard time even picking out the one I'd like to cast on first. (Huh? What Christmas projects?) Unfortunately, Ulla doesn't do official translations of the patterns so they're available only in Finnish. But the designers themselves might post translations on their blogs so keep on eye on them.

Here's just a small selection of the stuff that jumps on my to-knit queue (sorry! Ravelry link).

First row:

• Aino socks by Eeva Saviranta from /dev/yarnstash
• En Pointe felted ballerina slippers by Ilu. There's also an English translation of this pattern and don't forget to check out Ilu's En Pointe gallery. I'm having a thing with felted slippers lately (more on those later).
• Freddie bolero / cropped cardi by Villilanka (dude! you live in the same town!)

Second row:

• Pohjan neito cardigan...
• and it's big sister, Louhi, long cabled coat, both designed by Tuulia Salmela. Gorgeous work, very Elsbeth Lavold inspired! I wouldn't make that long a coat cause a) it'd be too heavy and b) I couldn't pull it off (the wearing part), but I'm really drawn to the large, pointy, almost Elvish hood. :)
• Revontuli shawl by AnneM. The colors are too flashy for me but I think the shawl would look great in a subtle, tone-on-tone yarn.

And third row:

• Bombadil socks by Eeva Saviranta. Anything Lord of the Rings related and I'm so there!
• Lemminkäinen sweater vest by Eeva Saviranta (again!). Sure, it's a men's pattern but I don't think it'd matter.
• Brego socks and mitts by Tuulia Salmela. Again, Lord of the Rings themed! Check out Tuulia's blog for pics of all of her designs in this issue. I'm guessing there'll be a lot of translation requests. ;)

First off, huge applauds to everyone who pulled the issue together. Someone on the inside (and now of course I can't remember who it was) posted a few days ago that it'd be the best one yet, and OMG, they weren't kidding.

Two, I obviously have an obsession with passion for cables. And socks. And cabled socks.

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