everyday life

socks trekking xxl

Started this pair when I was listening on the radio during the USelection. Just simple socks with no frills. And a basic pattern - no written pattern, I just winged it.

Sock Trekking XXL
Yarn: Trekking XXL
Colour: Redish
Needles: 4,0 mm
Pattern: -
Design: -
Started: November 7, 2012 Finished: November 17, 2012
Yarnsource: I think I won it, somewhere on the Internet.

 

baby hat

I'm home sick today. Nothing serious, some sort of a stomach bug. I went home from work yesterday before lunch with fever and hit the bed, slept for 3 hours and later a couple of more hours. Around 9 in the evening I felt much better.

Still have some cramps in my stomach, but otherwise I feel better. I have been watching the end of the second series of The West Wing and I have been knitting. Started AND finished a baby hat just over 2 hours.

Baby hat
Yarn:  Drops Nepal
Colours: Balck & Gray
Needles: 3,5 mm
Pattern: Mönster
Design: Fröken C
Started: November 22, 2012 Finished: November 22, 2012
Yarnsource: Litet nystan

And no, I'm not going to have a baby. But I have friends who recently got a baby and several friends have a due date in April. I will be knitting some baby items during the winter. :-)

new project

I have actually finished 2 projects this past weekend, I will blog about these later on. This blog entry will be about my new project. Another pair of socks.

This time in blueish/greenish Zauberball. Looking good so far. No pattern, just simple straight forward socks.

spank me with a cactus and call me sandy or zlat-trick, take zlat, zlat attack or o captain! my captain!*

The rave from the English media today to Zlatan Ibrahimovic amazing. The Swedish team, for which he is captain, was victorious against England football team yesterday. Swe - Eng 4-2. And Zlatan scored 4 times. Yesterday was the opening gala match of the new national football stadium. And I was there, of course. And it was a glorious night.

And the 4th goal is absolutly f*cking amazing: 

 

I can see this over and over again and it gives me chills.

The last 10 minutes was totaly crazy. 50.000 people gives Zlatan a standing ovation. The last minute filmed by me here.

Zlatan is no stranger to make crazy goal. Look at this one 2004 against Italy. Or this aganist Hungary 2005 or this one in June against France.

Enough said! Next post will resume to normal knitting activity.

*spank me with a cactus and call me sandy - is from the Suns live report of the match and zlat-trick, take zlat and zlat attack are headlines from some English newspapers. "O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman - but it's also a line in the end of the movie Dead Poets Society

blue bell shawl

 So here it it, my latest shawl made of leftover yarn from other projects through the years.

Blue Bell Shawl
Yarn:  Drops Alpaca & Indiecita Alpaca - leftovers from other projects
Colour: Blue & Blue
Needles: 5,5 mm
Pattern: -
Design: -
Started: October 20, 2012 Finished: November 1, 2012
Yarnsource: Ljungkvists Odenplan & Marias Garn.

A shawl with ruffles. I'm really happy with this one. The blue colours goes very well together and it's soft and with be really nice around the neck. Sadly though, not mine since I'm giving this away. 

123 grams of blue alpaca wool

 

sox

Started a new sock project while listening to US Election up-date on Swedish radio on November 7. An easy and carefree project to knit on. And it's no stripe in sight!

At the moment I'm in a knit frenzy and spending most evenings and early mornings with needles in my hands. Basically it's my way to clear my head and to not think about work.

And next time I have a finished project to show you.

obsession

Obsession with stripes? I think so. Yet again, a stripey shawl on the needles.  Am I totally lost? Is there a Stripes Anonymous group out there?!?

:-)

5,5 mm bamboo circ

I have a favorite pair of needles and I have knitted most of my shawls with this pair. 5,5 mm bamboo circ. I absolutly love to knit with these needles. Nice to hold, the yarn works really well on the needles.

I have - of course - other needles, I haved knitted shawls with 4,0 mm Knit Pro but I have not really falling for those completly. Don't get me wrong, Knit Pro are nice to knit with but can't beat my bamboo needles. :-)

And by the way, Sleeping Beauty was amazing!!! First act was unbelievable!! I could not take photos but you can find a photo from the Opera here.