everyday life

waving lace socks

waving lace locks - lorna's laces, originally uploaded by catsfalk.

I'm here! I has been busy at work and my free time after work had been filled with various activites with friends around the city. Dinners, pub hoping, bbq's, football. Basically a good time! And I have been knitting too. I have finished one item. My Waving Lace Socks. Socks are always small enough to bring in your bag everywhere.

Waving Lace Socks
Yarn: Lorna's Laces Colour: Don't know the colour name. But its a lovely blueish colour.
Needles: KnitPicks streel dpn 2,50 mm
Pattern: From the book Favorite Socks
Design: Evelyn A. Clark
Started: June 9 , 2008 Finished: June 28, 2008
Yarnsorce: a swap with this lady Portland, Oregon

I loved to knit this pair. The pattern was easy to remember, and it was my first time with Lorna's Laces. I will knit this yarn again, and I have more of in in my stash.

in state

In state with Kathleen Edwards. A great song, on heavy rotation on my CD player!

knitting & football

Another night with some knitting and football. Tonight we have France vs Italy. My hopes goes out to Italy! Both teams are in big trouble, they need to win AND Romania needs to loose against Holland, to qualify to the quarter finals.. Tomorrow night my boys need to win or get a draw to get to the next round. Sweden plays against Russia tomorrow 8.45 pm CET. And at the same time I'm hoping to find a TV, because we have our annual summer party at work tomorrow...

The waving lace socks - my knitting tonight

To avoid the rain when I walked home I visited the big fancy department store NK. And there on display, you can get a close up on the Vivianne Westwood wedding dress, from the movie Sex and the City, the Carrie Bradshaw wedding dress. And of course I snaped some photos of it.

The Carrie Bradshaw wedding dress

dolly parton

dolly parton, originally uploaded by catsfalk.

Dolly Parton kicked off her European tour in Stockholm, Friday evening. I was there along with 18.500 other Dolly fans, among them: Katarina & Stefan and Erika. I had a great night. It was my first Dolly concert and I enjoyed it very much. She has a great songbook, and she sang some oldies but also some new ones from her latest CD.

And the weather was with us. Earlier that day we had rain, but late afternoon it cleared up and we had a fab, but cold evening at Stockholm Stadion.

I had bought cheap tickets, so I sat way in the back, so Dolly was a tiny dot on stage, so thank god for big tv screens.

knit in public day

So did you knit in public yesterday? Well I did. The weather in Stockholm was not the best so we ended up at our favorite yarn store, at Marias garn. But it was nice anyway. Lots of happy knitters, big ones and little ones.

When knitting in a yarn store is not very easy NOT to buy new yarn, neeedles, pattern books or something else for your knitting. I came home with two lovely buttons for my two Calorimetry, nothing else. But I cuddle some lovely yarn and I will problebly go back and buy it later on. Maria has also a bunch of lovely shawls (and pattern) and I want to make several of them.

friday, finally...

Some weeks are longer than others, and this week has been looong. Even though I have been doing lots of fun things this week. But I have tons of things at work (and here I sit and writes a blog post during work hours... Shame on me... Shhhh - don't tell...) and meetings everyday. At the moment, being at the office is not fun at all. We have a work load that is unbelievable, and we are loosing staff members in every month now, and we have no money to replace them, so we who are left behind, is slowly drowning. I am thankful to have a work to go to every morning, but at the moment it's "sink or swim".

Thank god for fun things to do after work, and that is football on TV every night. I have been watching a lot of football this week (and upcoming weeks). Alone at home, with friends in a pub, home at friends houses. But no football tonight -GASP! I ditch Italy, Romania, Holland & France for some good country/bluegrass music tonight. Tonight you will find me along with this gal (and her bf) and this gal at Stockholm's stadium, watching Dolly Parton for a couple of hours.

And during most of all these football matches on TV, I have been knitting - exept for the Sweden game. I have been knitting a lot on the Waving Lace Socks, and I'm about to turn the heel now.

Ok, I guess I need to do some work now.. Have a great Friday! And I guess I will see some of you tomorrow at Mariatorget / or at Marias garn?

june 14 - wwkipday, stockholm

Wide World Knit In Public Day, June 14

Location: Mariatorget
Time: from 12:00
Date: June 14, 2008

How to get there:
We will meet on the small green at Mariatorget on Södermalm. The nearest tube station is Mariatorget.

Please bring:
Bring your knitting, a blanket and perhaps something to eat.

The backup plan is:
In case of rain, we will gather at the local yarn store Marias garn, S:t Paulsgatan 20, only a few minutes walk from Mariatorget.

happiness

waving lace socks, started the lace pattern, originally uploaded by catsfalk.

This is how my Waving Lace Socks looks at the moment. I think it looks really nice.

Sweden is a happy nation today! Thanks to Zlatan and Petter!

ok, here we go!

ok, here we go!, originally uploaded by catsfalk.

Sweden enters Euro2008 in a couple of minutes. We play against Greece, and now I can only hope for the best! Are you ready?

why i don't love nature or our trip to ängsö national park

Most of those who know me, knows I'm not a very fond of hiking, nature and animals. In fact, my idea of nature is well groomed city garden / palace garden. I'm a city girl through and through. Don't get me wrong, I love to spend a weekend or a week in the country side, relaxing, reading a good book. But a walk in the forrest is not for walk. I get swollen eyes and runny nose of most animals, and I don't understand the need to walk in the nature. What's up with that?!? I can almost guarantee, you will never see a post on this blog, me nature hiking! City walks are my thing! ;-) My holiday often goes to a big cities around Europe (so far!).

glasgow

Today we had our annoual spring trip at work. Last year we visited Uppsala, this year Ängsö National Park, and now you get my beginning of this post... Yepp, 3 hours on a remote island in the Stockholm archipelago, with mosqito's (who can't get enough of my blood, apparentally, my blood is the yummiest around.. I have lots of bites on my ankles.. Another reason to not love nature!), flies and other unnamed beasts.

Most of my co-workers are these nature loving people, and when this Ängsö suggestion came up, everybody said YES - a great idea. So this morning we meet up at Strömkajen to board M/S Sjöbris. The boat trip to Ängsö took 2 hours, two hours spending knitting and talking.

At Ängsö, a forrest ranger met us, and he took us on walk around the island. The Ängsö National Park is one of the oldest in Europe, founded 1909. It's a small island, situated between Norrtälje and Vaxholm. Two people lives on this island - the two forrest rangers. As soon we began to walk in the bush, I got attacked by the beasts.. One positve thing though - my allergy season is over, but some of my co-workers had a hell due to grass pollen.

The tour took an hour anda half and after, we had our lunch. We brough our own, and I had a greek salad. I enjoyd the day - really I did, but it was nice to get back to the city again. So now I need to tend my very sore ankles..