everyday life

afternoon knit party

One of my knitting friends celebrated her birthday by throwing a knit party on Saturday afternoon. Needless to say, but we had a blast! 10 amazing knitters, good food, good drinks.

birthday girl to the left

 This is an excellent way to spend an afternoon! I have actually something like this planed later in September or October that involves knitting, afternoon tea and football.

During this afternoon, my knitting was the straps to the Booga bag. So now all the pieces are done, now I need to felt it. I will do that later this week. At the moment I'm about to finish the secret I have been knitting the past weeks. I may finish later tonight.

I also need to dive into my stash to find yarn to a new project.. Tomorrow's mission I guess.

vacation time

Sick leave is OVER and I have started my vacation! Woohoo! I'm happy! I had an appointment with my doctor on Monday and she was pleased with the outcome of the surgery - both inside and outside of my body. So she ended my sick leave and I called work to tell them I was available for work again, but I needed my vacation first... I need to take it easy and will not lift heavy suitcases - so I will stay home, a staycation :-) 

So far though, I haven't done much - I basically continue my "sick leave days" - you know eat, cook, bake, knit, watch dvd:s and relax. Yesterday evening I had a friend over, we did some food, talked and had a blast. This evening I'm going to Råsunda Stadium to watch some football. Sweden plays against Scotland in friendly. I will meet up with Katarina and her husband at the local pub, before the game to have a pint (or two) and a burger.

But before the game I need a cup of tea and I need to knit a couple of rows on the colourful booga bag.

The bag is hanging upside down on the chair. I do love the colourful stripes and I hope this will be a useful bag after felting. I have about 10cm to go on this bag. I don't know yet if I will keep this to myself or give it away, time will tell.
 

stashbusting

For I while now I have watch my stash growing and growing, buying yarn here and there and for some yarn with any project in mind. My bins has been overflooded with yarn, so it was time to start to do some stashbusting. So I have been looking around on Ravelry and in my knitting library to  match some pattern to some of my yarn. In my Ravelry queue I found a felted bag in Noro Kureyon and in my stash I found 5 skeins in Kureyon in the same colour - so the other day I cast on for Booga bag.

the beginning of booga bag

I also have started on a shawl but since this one is a gift, I will not show it yet. And I have also so other stashbusting projects in the pipeline - it's soon winter again so new hats and mittens are coming up.

knitted items in use

Stina is very happy about her new mini tote. During our lunch break we had a photo session on the court yard outside our office. In the heavy snowfall.

the mini skull tote

And Stina was also wearing the pink Calorimetry I knitted for her earlier this year.

pink calorimetry

mini skull tote - before felting

I am done with the knitting on the Mini Skull Tote and at the moment the bag is rolling around in my washer.. I'm a bit nervous to see the end result... But here is the bag before felting.

Stina's Mini Skull Tote
Yarn: Drops Eskimo Colours : In black and bright pink
Needles: 7 mm KnitPicks Harmony wood circ.
Pattern: Hallo Yarn
Design: Adrian Bizilia
Started: November 17, 2008 Finished: November 23, 2008
Yarnsource: Ljungkvists garn, Odenplan

snowy day

Yesterday evening I was out with the girls. You know, couple of pints, food and lots of laughter. A great time! Anyway, when we stepped out from the pub, it was snowing. And when I got up from my underground station my world was totally white, and it's still are. And it's snowing.

  the view from my bed room window, around 8.15

My plans today is to go Hampus birthday party - he turned 2 this week and later this party will turn in to a house warming party, since he and his parents just moved in in a new flat.

But till the parties begin,I will sit in my sofa and knit. I have been doing a couple of rows in the Mini Skull Tote for Stina, this morning.

the mini skull tote

And I have recruited another person to the cult of knitting..My co-worker Stina, who is paying for this skull tote, bought yarn on Thursday and started to knit her first scarf..  She may even be a guest writer on this blog next week, to show off her scarf... I hope so anyway.. ;-)