Mystery Valentine Wristwarmer KAL - 2. Heat

Round 2 of the MVW KAL - and still standing........ Love the pattern - Can't wait to get the third and last part of the pattern.

But a dilemma has also presented it self in my life. I started reading the Twilight Saga - now, there are books that you simply can't put away - and here comes the problem: No matter how many methods I try, I am simply unable to read and knit at the same sime..... So what's a girl to do?? Decisions, decisions. Should I knit or should I spend my valuable free time reading??

If only I had 4 arms.......

Sideways had me upside down.....

The project is coming around nicely. I had a lot of problems understanding the instructions for the gussets, and the project almost got frogged. But then I found this service group on Ravelry for design by Geilsk and it really made the difference.

I uploaded a few pictures of Sideways - but it's really hard to see what is to become of it. A project that really can't do without blocking.... Tried to stretch out the project with my feet while taking the picture, without my socks being in the frame - challenging!

Mystery Valentine Wristwarmers KAL - 1st heat.

I started on the MVW KAL on Ravelry the other day - and 1st heat is completed.

In the beginning I was a bit confused about the picot lace edging - it didn't look quite right to me, and I wondered if I had gotten the pattern right, but it turned out really neat, so I guess I'm on the right course.
Now I am just waiting for the calender to sho January 10 where the next part of the pattern will be released :-)

The progress of the wrist warmers can also be followed here.

Casting on like a maniac.

Since I started using Ravelry more, I keep digging up projects that I just HAVE to make - right away..... Therefore I have been casting on like a maniac the past ccouple of days (I also finished a couple of projects along the way so I guess it's ok).

First a secret project - all I will give you here is photo....

Then I found Geilsk and fell instantly for "Sidelæns" (sideways) which is a seamless project, knitted sideways.

The kit comes with the most wonderful yarn in a cotton/woll blend that is supersoft and doesn't scratch at all!

Enough about the yarn - lets talk about the packing - faultless beauty....... everything carries the Geilsk trade mark - a gorgeous childrens drawing. Both on the paper bag the yarn came in, on the banderole and just to make everything perfect, the kit also came with a label for sewing in the finished project.

Not bad to start off 2010 with gorgeous yarn.......

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.