everyday life

Dublin bay socks

This pair of socks took me 2 month to finish. Mostly due to my apartment move. The second sock took about a week to finish. This pair was one of my Project Spectrum August project.

pattern and design: Mossy Cottage Sock Pattern, Ryan Morrissey.
yarn: Opal, dreamcatcher, I've lost the bagde, so I can't give you the colour number.
needles: 2,25 mm, bamboo needles
started: August 1st, 2006
finished: October 1 st, 2006

But I not happy with these, they are too big. I will wash them to see if they get smaller. I would problebly used 2,00 mm needles instead. Maybe next time.

/ C

knitting and movies

knitting and movies
Originally uploaded by catsfalk.

After a slow Saturady comes a slow Sunday. Since my living room is "out of order" due to a make over I have spent most of my time sitting in bed watching dvd:s on the computer and knitting on my Dublin Bay socks. (I have been outside too, shopping groceries!). I hope I get some wallpapers up tomorrow, I really want to get everything in order now.

Today I had a mini Redford/Newman dvd festival. First up I had The Sting, from 1973 and after that I saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, from the glorious year of 1969 and tonight I thinking to follow up with Redford/Streisand In The Way We Were, 1973. I'm thinking of joining FiberFlix - knitting and watching a good movie. It's perfect!

My Dublin Bay are almost finished, I'm about to start on toes, so I will problebly finish those tonight if everything goes my way!

/ C

new things

So this will be my home from now. I hope I like it here and that you, my friends, will find it a bit intresting to read about me and my knittings.

It has been a really slow Saturday, I was originally to meet up with Stina, but she had to cancel the last minute, so I had the day to myself. I loaded the dvd with a couple of movies and did some knitting and ordered in chinese food. A perfect day. I have been knitting on my second Dublin Bay sock, I will soon begin the heel flap.

I have new knitting books to share. One skein by Leigh Radford and The secret Life of a Knitter: Yarn Harlot by Stephanie Pearl- McPhee. Most of you have already gotten these book , and now has I. I have started to read Yarn Harlot, and it´s a joy to read her. I had her other books, so I knew that I was going to like it. And in One skein you can find patterns for your single skein of your choise. And there was a couple of things that I really liked in this book: Kid's Colour BlockCardigan -I'm sure that someone of my babies will like that one, Cable footies, Silk Sleeves - are added to my wishlist.

Yesterday I was at a dinner party with my co-workers and some old co-workers. We celebrated Gitte, who is turning 70 tomorrow. She was my mentor when I started out in this archive business, 1994. And she is a great lady and it was a real joy to celebrate her with gifts and flowers. We had a great evening!

This week I got me a belated birthday gift from ACE and it was a brosch, a beautiful one, in shape of a heart! I just loove it! Thank you, Sweetheart! Love You!

/ C

welcome!

Welcome to my new home, my new blog! It was time to make the move from Blogdrive to something better. I'll hope I like it here and that you will like it to.  It's mostly about knitting and yarn but also about other aspects of my life - books, movies, football (soccer), food, travels, my work as an archivist - my everyday life.

Due to a hectic schedule I haven't got the time to knit. Last time I knitted was on way way from Uppsala more than 2 weeks ago. My Dublin Bay socks. Here you can see some photo's on my socks from that trip. The upper picture is showing the status on my way to Uppsala and the one below after one day of conference. I like this pattern. It's an easy pattern and I'm gonna like this pair of sock when they are finished.

This week has been hectic, my first week back to work after 5 weeks of vacation and a move to a bigger and a better apartment. And I still have chaos in my apartment. I'm (still) waiting on the handymen to set up my new wallpapers. This week I got a new floor in the kitchen and the hall and next step is new wallpaper in every room. So I haven't got the chance to unpack all the boxes. Today I have organized my walk-in closet, so my clothes are in order.

/ C