It's time for few new updates! I have been very busy as always, or a bit more that usual... Feel tired in the eves and don't feel like using the last bits of my energy behind the computer screen- I rather use it doing some knitting :D
A friend of mine found the Fabel yarn I have used in several occations, very attractive and asked if I'd knit socks for her two boys. So this is one of the projects I have been working on:
Using Fabel yarn from Garnstudio, color nr 162, Blue Sea




At the same time I am knitting a jacket for myself, so lets see how well I will manage that :D



There are naturally several more projects on the list waiting for their turn, and the x'mas time is getting closer and closer- plus we are moving next week- please- if you have some time to sell, come to me with it!!!

Meeldetuletus iseendale!

Kirjutan üles enne kui ära unustan: ma tahan, ma vajan, ma nöuan- Haapsalu sallide raamatut ja Vörumaa kindakirjamustrite raamatut.
Uh, kergem hakkas.
Ma lähen nüüd magama.

Socks and bunnies

Socks and socks and socks! I mean, why do we always find one of each pair, every time we are in a hurry? To ease the problem, I knitted ANOTHER pair of socks to AN- this time of alpaca wool, from Lithuanian Alvita. I am working on matching mittens. I did finish one, but it is too large. So I'll knit two more, smaller.




Few days ago I surprised AN with two new friends- Bunny-Bob and Bunny-Berta! AN keeps pulling them off from my fingers and putting back again... Well, if that's how she thinks we should treat our little friends, ok then!

Tuhvlid said valmis! I finished the slippers!

Vöi tuleks neid sussideks kutsuda? Vöi milleks tegelikult? No vahet pole, sooja annavad nad korralikult. Meil on jahedad pörandad, kuigi mul on olemas jala otsa pistetavad sussid, pidasin vajalikuks nende tegemist siin, kuna nood teised jäävad pidevalt kuskile ripakile ja siis ma ei leia ühte üles :( Aga mis jala küljes kinni, see on kinni :) Kasutasin Garnstudio Alaska lönga ja nende oma mustrit, mille lingi eelmises postitusest vist ära töin. Nüu¨d ütled, et aga need ei näe ju üldse selles mustris antute moodi välja! No muidugi ei näe, kui tihti mu tööd seda näevad? :) Peaks möned sellised ka jöulukingitusteks tegema- vaene rotike nagu ma hetkel olen- ei ole minul raha fäänside kingituste jaoks. Oma tehtud, hästi tehtud!

It took some time, but now they are here :) Keeping my feet warm as our floors are pretty chilly. I could actually use them at work as well- my feet are often freezing there...
I may knit a few more couples to give away as X'mas gifts- I am officially poor these months, and have no money for fancy presents. Selfdone-well done!
I had a bad surprise today- the bolero I was working on, for AN, I was knitting it wrong :( Silly, silly me- I didn't read the pattern well enough. Even chicken have more brain than me :( 2 weeks of knitting while putting AN to bed- it's all waisted! But the funny part is that when I picked that work up today to knit it, I was thinking that "oh how boring one pattern can be- no excitement knitting this piece at all... I should have chosen another one... does she actually need it at all? She's got several cardis she can wear...." etc etc. Until I found out I had to rip the whole thing up again! I will not knit another one! Not this year. She'll get her second pair of socks instead, of alpaca wool- I feel sorry for her when the temperature is so low and she has to sit still in her buggy.

Old debts

Beautiful socks to a little baby-girl! A good friend of mine had a little daughter recently, and as I had some of this beautiful ping yarn in my Panduro's Box of Yarn, I decided to get something sweet out of it! The pattern is the simplest, the socks are tiny- it didn't take long to finish them.I must admit that pink is not my fave color on little girls... but this yarn is not ONLY pink, as you see- it has tens of gorgeous tones- it is such a pleasure to knit with it, and enjoy the new and new surprising colors showing up.  Surprise-surprise, it is a Garnstudio Fabel yarn :) Yeah I have almost emptied our local yarn shop :P 

The pic shows one of the socks unfinished- I wanted to get the pic before it got dark outside, don't have a Photoshop in my MacBook and can't fix the yellowish pics taken in the evenings... 

Oh, and before I forget again, I owe Jen a pic of the poncho I knitted using sari silk yarn, emmm, as I have noone else to take the photo, you will have to be satisfied with this one: 

:P

Eesti keeles ka!/ Also in estonian language!

Ma olen lubanud hakata kirjutama ka oma emakeeles, st eesti keeles. Annan nüüdsest endast parima! Eks elu näitab, kummas keeles ma põhiliselt kirjutan, ning kummas lühida kokkuvõtte teen- aga eks see ole vist juba ette teada...

Hetkel olen hõivatud ühe suuremat sorti projekti väljatöötamisega, et siis kõikidele Eestis elavatele käsitöösõpradele suurt rõõmu valmistada ;) Ma hetkel hoian end veel tagasi, kuid seda lootusega, et varsti saan "asja" avalikuks teha :)

Hey, I have a PLAN. I often do. But this time... it is a PLAN. More about it later ;P

I've spent the last two days at home with AN as she has not felt so good. There are lots of viruses around these days. Now you could think that I had a chance to do lots of knitting and maybe even some house work? Wrong! Well, I actually finished one pair socks, which are not even close to perfect.... And I am just about finishing another pair of socks, a gift to one of the newest members of Mother Earth, and these ones look beautiful. Pics tomorrow. And lastly I started knitting THESE - my feet are often cold, and enough is enough! 

Otherwise not much is happening, I will have another month of poorness- probably also the last- I got paid today and I have paid most of it away already... That's the way. Having a job interview on Monday, so there's hope out there! No, actually it is not so bad, as you remember- I have a PLAN :) 

Besides I am working on my X'mas project- I'd like to make a little market stand and try to sell few sweet things to people who find them as pretty as I do. Telling about it here kind of commits me to do it even if I find that I am too tired on those long and dark November eves. But then I can just lit few candles, make a cup of hot chocolate, and enjoy the work.

I am sitting here trying to make my blog a bit more eye-friendly... It doesn't look any pretty yet but I am working on it, I really am!;)

Yarn here and yarn there....

This morning our tiny dining table looked like this

Someone spent half the night organizing Liisu Käsitöölöng yarn into balls- absolutely boring and quite irritating job, especially with this particular yarn. But the colors are just beauuuuutiful!

Do you think my daughter will soon through out all the yarn I have? 

Did I mention that I have a mountain of it, after our short trip to Estonia in the beginning of this month? Well, at least I have some! The yarn prices in Estonia are about half of what they are here in Norway, so I really enjoyed that shopping. The only problem is, that it is hard to find a proper yarn shop there :( The same with all the Internet shops they have dedicated for yarn- the range of colors is very limited, and that is sad. So I still often end up in my fave yarn shop here in Kongsberg, rolling the paper money between my fingers and saying: "Eh what the hell, I'll buy it!"

Alpaca winter set-babyhat and scarf

I am a bit confused. What do I like more- vintage knitting or high street funky kids' clothing? I like both! I have have found several beautiful patterns of both styles, and I am going to dress up my baby- oh AND myself! :) I need just a little more practicing, and then I can start making larger items than baby clothes. 

My latest success is here:

As AN spends now lots of time outdoors (in the kindergarten), and the weather is getting colder and colder-  she needed a warm hat. I used 100% baby alpaca for the hat- Katia MISKI yarn, and a mix of Alpaca, merino's wool and silk yarn- Katia SULKA for the scarf. As the Garnstudio pattern for the hat was a little boring, I tuned it up myself :) (and I even learned to crochet for this projects' sake :D)