Monday, November 21, 2005

Opal socks for my son!

I have not been bloging, but I have been knitting a little bit. Some days I have not been feeling very well, and have had to lay down. But I have knitted socks in Opal-yarn for my son. It is cold outside and he really need them, so I stayed up late last night to finish them for today.

Now I have so many things I would like to knit, but I just don't knit fast enough.
It would have been nice to have some Superman knitting-speed!

I have now started to knit the Advent calendar from Simply knitting. But I should have started this earlier. It need to be finished by December 1!!!

Friday, November 11, 2005

It's my birthday and I have a new shrug finished!

Today is my birthday and I am 32 years old. Even if it is my birthday I don't think it is okay that my 16 moths old son is starting to party at 3 pm. And I am not feeling so good, so I don't know if I am up to any eating-out-and-movie-night.

I have not been bloging the last few days, but I have done some knitting.
The shrug I finished for I while ago have been ripped almost to the start and I have made a new one. I like this a lot better. The color on the first picture is not right, but the second one is showing the right color.

The really fun thing about this project was that I did not estimate how much yarn I would need. When it was finished I had a little less than 5,5 meters left.

Saturday, November 05, 2005

My new ball winder!

I have bought myself a ball winder and an umbrella swift!
It is great! My daughter was very willing to help.


It is very well known Royal ball winder, and I think it makes very nice balls of yarn. But since this is my first experience with a ball winder, I have nothing to compare it with. Anyhow - this makes it a lot easier!

Friday, November 04, 2005

Showing off my kool-aid yarn!

I was planning on updating my blog yesterday, but I was not feeling very well.
Mostly I was staying in bed or sofa. When trying to do my mother-duty I got easy tired-out, and that is very frustrating.

Okay, "being seek talk"!

Here are some more pictures of my yarn.
I have now made a center-pull-ball out of my first colored skein.
After 165 meter of yarn I was not eager to do the other two, so now I have googled and found a retailer where I can buy a ball winder and an umbrella swift!


My Kyoto-scarf has been ripped, because I just thought it turned out being too tight and heavy. So now I am trying a new pattern - the Short row rib from MagKnits. I did some blogger-search and found that Yarn Junkie had used the same yarn for this scarf. But, I am not convinced!


Wednesday, November 02, 2005

My first Kool-aid yarn!

I just couldn't wait no longer, so I started winding yarn and mixing kool-aid.
Being my first attempt, I am very happy with the result. To bad I only made this one in the color-mix. It was a test, to see how it would turn out coloring pale grey alpaca. It was a nice way to not getting very bright colors.

When I did the mixing and painted the yarn I was quite worried, 'cause it looked rather awful!
It was not before it started to dry that I saw that it turned out very nice! I was so happy with the colors that I started making some more.


But I wasn't paying enough attention the first time, so the next too skeins where not colored the same way. But I used the same colors. The difference is that I have more grape and longer color-sections. But it still might look nice when knitted!
Here I am painting the second skein of grey alpaca. You can see some of the grey color that is not yet painted. Goodbye to the very boring color!

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Stitch-markers


I have made myself some stitch-markers for the first time.
Maybe I shouldn't write 'made', because the only thing I have done is attaching the two peaces together! On the web I have seen a lot of other crafty people making fancy stitch-markers, and my attempt is very poor compared to these.