Pilates socks and Odessa

First of all a Happy New Year to all the readers. Hope you all had the greatest Holidays ever.
I spent my 2 week long vacation on Dan Brown and Knitting. I finished Odessa, but think i turned out a little too small for my big head, so it may have to find a new owner. Isabel agreed to let me take some pictures of her with it. I really love the way the beads fit the colorway of the yarn. Odessa is available both on Ravelry here.

A girlfriend's birthday came up and since I am a really poor planner, but always likes to give home knitted gifts, I had to cook something up really fast. She is a Pilates instructor and addicted to Chanel nail polish (on her toes) So I dug up a Pilates / Winter Nail Polisher sock on Ravelry (aka Yoga sock) and grabbed some orange/red Mille Colori left over yarn in my stash. An evening on the couch and voila - present ready.

..... I really think I might be addicted to Mille Colori from Lang.

Beads cast on and cookied......

Enjoying the first day of my first vacation with the, a good book (The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown), and a new project cast on.

Have been wanting for a long time to cast on "Odessa" by Grumperina but I had a hard time finding just the right beads and yarn. At Gail Knits in Las Vegas I found the most gorgeous beads and then I just had to go with one of my absolute favourites in yarns: Mille Colori from Lang.

The pattern is fairly easy and easy to remember - I think the hardest and most time consuming part was to get all the beads on to the yarn.




This afternoon Isabel and I decided to make another batch of cookies since teh ones we made last week and were meant for Christmas has somehow already vanished....... Just to stay in the beads "spirit" we choose to do some rally good lemon-cookies with lime frosting and silver sugar-beads. And here is the result - yummy!

Damson on needles while King Winter drops by

I have really spent a lot of time trying to get the hang of Ravelry. To start with I don't think I really got the idea, but think I'm getting there....

We had a really warm November here in Denmark, but then all of a sudden the weather changed and King Winter and Jack Frost came hand in hand and snow fell from the skies like we hadn't seen for years. 65 cm in one night - traffic chaos and schools closed. Usually when it snows here, it melts away in a couple of days or it turns in to a brown, disgusting "molassis" - well, now 4 days later, the landscape is stille white and very "Christmasy". Hope it stays that way next week. Would be cool to actually experience a white Christmas.



In between all the work, I also had time to knit a bit. I checked out Ravelry for cool patterns to some of the great yarns that I bought in Vegas. It's really cool to just browse between hundreds of really nice projects for patterns.
I found the Damson that would go really great with my Misti Alpaca yarn.



And this is how it turned out.

Socks Rock

Autumn just flies by. It's windy, it's rainy.... it's perfect weather to stay in and knit..... just don't have the time. Too much work, too many conferences, too many seminars, too many parent meetings at my daughter's school - AND too much flu.

In between all this i did however find time to keep my daughter's and better half's feet warm.

Winding Weekend

Borrowed my mother in law's yarn winder and skein holder for some of my wonderful Las Vegas yarns. Was really looking forward to wind up all my new skeins... and wupsi daisy it was all over in 5 minutes.... Hmpf!!! I love the winder... but... I wanted the experience to last longer...

No just kidding. But I couldn't believe how fast a skein of 100 grams winds up to a itsy bitsy ball. Great invention.

Buuut we also had time to do some Halloween pumpkins.



Oh - and by the way.... they also let me knit on the way home in the plane... 5 knitting needles and all.....

Gail Knits in Las Vegas and so do I..........

Ja, selv om vi er kommet hjem fra Vegas mangler jeg lige nogle opdateringer - internet forbindelsen i det lejede hus var SIMPELTHEN for langsom.

Nå, men i min jagt på lækkert garn fandt jeg Gail Knits. Super hyggelig butik, med an masse strikkeglade damer der sad og hyggede med kaffe og snacks. Derudover havde de også en super lækker garnsamling.

Her er et par billeder af høsten. Mmmmmm. Jeg er især begejstret for farvespillet i Fame trend fra Marks & Kattens



I know I already came home from Vegas, but I have a lot of updating to do. I gave up in the rented house 'cause the Internet connection was SO slow.... On my yarn hunt I found Gail Knits which is a really cosy store with a lot of knitting happy ladies having a super time knitting and drinking coffe. They also had a load of beautiful, gorgeous yarns. I'm really excited about the colorway of Fame trend from Marks and Kattens.



When I wasn't shopping, I found time to do some knitting by the pool (with a margarita by my side - yummy)

Wooly Wonders in Vegas

Kan man købe godt garn i Vegas? - Er der overhovedet nogen i denne ørken/forlystelsesby der strikker.

Jeg fandt ihvertfald Wooly wonders som er en super hyggelig lille garnbutik med god betjening. Der sad et par strikkere ved et langt bord i midten af butikken og hyggede sig med hver deres strikketøj. Butikken er ikke kun en butik, men også et mødested - og så har de de lækreste garner.

Is there anywhere in Las Vegas where you can buy great yarn? - Does anyone in this desert town knit at all???

I found this knitting store Wooly wonders that had all these beautiful, gorgeous yarns. The store was really cosy and the service excellent. It had a long table where people can sit and knit. It actually seemed like both a nice knitting meeting place as well as a great yarn store.






Indtil videre er det blå garn fra Misti Alpacca min favorit. Alpacca og silke i super flotte farver. blødt og lækkert.

So far the blue yarn from Misti Alpacca is my favourite. Alpacca and silk in the most beautiful colours. Amazingly soft....

Knitting in the air

Så er vi taget på ferie i Las Vegas og er kommet godt frem. Jeg læste op på SAS' politikker omkring håndbagage, og hos SAS står strikkepinde på listen over ting der er godkendt i håndbagagen - så var det bare lige om Sikkerhedskontrollen er af samme holdning.

Jeg slap ombord med strikketøj og strikkede det meste af turen - også uden henvendelser fra stewardesser....




We left for vacation in Las Vegas - and I was eager to find out if the airline would let me knit in the air. I checked out SAS' homepage and knitting needles is actually on the list of approved items in carry-on luggage - but I also had to go through security and maybe they didn't share the SAS policy.

But I was let on the plane and knitted almost the entire trip :-)