And that’s exactly
what my dear spouse and Janne did. Pat transformed it from some grayish kind of
beige into shiny black with white details while Janne “the sewing machine
whisperer” made it run smoothly once again. Much appreciated guys.
Now I’m
gonna dig into this pile of stash fabric and after some sewing and a touch of embroidery
I will show you my latest project.
Sweden vs.
Denmark tomorrow, will we be in or out of the next world championship in soccer…that’s
the question.
To compensate for my temporary despise against the Danish people I’ve cast on for a pair of baby socks in red and white.
I’m such a wimp,
why can’t I just go all the way and loathe them for a day or two?
One for
Annelie’s 60th birthday
Pat’s
parents came to celebrate his birthday bringing us all these goodies from their
summer house garden; the eggplants are so cute that I almost won’t eat them.
And the grapes taste like something made out of heaven.
It is October,
it’s chilly and I love it. I couldn’t care less about winter lurking around the
corner, bring it on I’m ready cause I’ve got mitts and shawls all over the
house just waiting to fight the cold off.
Yes, the different background color indicates that I’m alive AND actually thinking about posting again… OMG. Thanks to dear Katja I’ve got a bunch of photos to choose from but in order to avoid chock amongst my readers I will start with an old project but a new photo. Late September evenings calls for fingerless mittens. I hereby proudly present: Last year’s biker mitts a la akb (If I would ever get the idea to make myself another pair I could simply name them biker mitts a la akc…the advantages with being married just never ends!
The hat is
a simple garter stitch square sewn together and a gift for Katja for being such
a patient model
Intarsia socks on the needles, Garden gate from
knitty.com, a project that bores me to death but it looks good so I’m hanging
in there.
Baby cardigan out of stash yarn, the stripes sure looks good but I dread all the weaving in ends that comes with it.
Besides knitting I’m preparing for my presentation at
Örebro University next Wednesday, I’ve got no inspiration what so ever, I’ve
been working so much with this bloody thesis project for several months and
after my examination in march I never ever wanted to see it again. One last
time…ugh.
Good things ahead as well…next Saturday my darling
friend Kristin is getting married. Party party.
My green fuzzy feet are indeed very comfy but also very Grinch green. Approximately 50% of all my socks are striped ones and mostly red and white stripes. Red and white striped socks and Grinch green fuzzy feet give a very "Grinchy" feeling!
Since I’m not a fan of the ever so popular Grinch story, it really doesn’t appeal to me, I’m not very fond of my fuzzy feet. I’ve tried to overcome this very serious and huge problem by adding different ornaments to them but without result.
Therefore I’ve decided that the time has come to make myself a new pair of fuzzy’s and taaa daaa here they are in progress
It’s huge and with the knitting needles it reminds me of a catfish
And...
...I’m married and happy as hell!
…want to get married to a guy that put plants on my head while I’m sleeping/totally passed out due to over consumption of alcoholic beverage…
…and so I will on the 7th of mars.
I might have been silent in cyber space but in IRL I’ve been knitting like the wind. The problem is that I just can’t bring myself to buy a proper camera for some reason. I hate blurry cell phone pictures but they’ll just have to do for now…it’s been three months since last post so I think it’s about time. So here it goes blurry pictures of Cherry .
I love this cardigan and the fit is perfect, maybe just maybe if I was to do this one again I would add some length to the part below the ribbon. I’m also wearing my Swedish squirrelly mittens on these pictures, a beautiful pattern and I just adore them. The problem is that I knit them while sitting in the dark and therefore I managed to knit with two different colors or maybe two different shades of a color. Pat came up with a clever solution for people not to notice; keep my hands as far apart as possible
This is as far away I can manage.
Problematic when shopping though, how to get that leek into the basket? Also very muscle demanding when you have bought both milk and flour.
Another garter stitch elephant done, hopefully we can keep this one away from the liquor.
The previous one had to move to Jenny’s after repeatedly getting drunk and throwing up gooey elephant puke in my favorite shoes… and worst of all he was honking that horrible wind of change song all night long.
I still knit like crazy, half a cherry completed…but obviously I knit so fast that I don’t take time to read the pattern instructions!!!!!
When I’m half up on the second front of cherry I notice a mistake right in the middle of the first front. After a two days long cherry break I’ve made the decision to finish the second front and the last sleeve BEFORE I redo the first part…then it won’t feel so repugnant to frog…at least that’s my theory. I hate to frog but I hate walking around with a cardigan that is semi perfect even more. I’ve got night shifts this weekend so it will keep me busy.
I’ve just started on a pair of spring forward socks and I think this pattern is just lovely, simple and yet so beautiful.
The best news of all though is Anna my dear Anna. When I got home from the lab today I had a parcel with my name waiting for me. What a treat. A suède ribbon bracelet made just for me by Anna herself, I love the leaf (I löv it).
A notebook, dark chocolate, candy, earrings, the cutest picture of little Saga with jam all over her face and a letter with the words I’m proud of you written in silver.
I love you Anna, you’re spoiling me.
