Day 25 and Day 26....

Today I went shopping with my friend Bianca. She was looking for a pair of nice and comfy winterboots. But apperantly, even though all the shops had sales going on, they didn´t have the kind of shoes she was looking for. It was in the sixth and last store where we finally find some shoes for her. YEAH!!!

Afterwards we went to her place and cooked an awesome dinner and I gave the belated birthday gifts to her daughter. A nice pink sweater and two "My little ponys" where you can exchange the feets and brush the hair. She went crazy about them. We had to exchange the different colored feets twice. The wrapping said Age 3+ but also for me it was hard to get the feets of and put the other one in. Sometimes I wonde if those toy designers are really thinking kid toys through??

Well, it was too late to write something yesterday when I came home, so I´m writing it today. And I made progress on the ear pattern for my amigurumi. Right now I´m still decideing what it will be. But here is a pic how it looks like with one ear.



So, I will work on the other ear today and also thinking about to embroider it a bit... let´s see!

More from my side tomorrow! ;-)

Day 23 and 24.... being busy!

One day you´re so bored. You don´t know what to do and the other day you´re so busy, you don´t know how to handle everything.

Yesterday was already on my way to an important appointment and came home with a friend, we cooked chinese together and baked muffins and had a fun time. But after she lfet I felt so tired I went to bed at 9 p.m. That doesn´t happen often but I just wanted to sleep. Maybe I´m fighting a cold or something? i don´t know.

But I was very productive today. I almost done with the mohair scarf and started a new amigurumi. This time I´m trying to write my own pattern. So far I´m done with the head, first it didn´t look good. Without the filling the head looked funny, and I was about to frogg it and start over. Well I continued and also sewed eyes on and eyelids as well. Check out the pics, I think for my first attempt on a pattern, it looks pretty cool.

Let me know what you think.

Day 22 - Today I didn´t do...

... anything on my projects! Aaarrghh!!!!

I slept bad but had to get up early. Did my laundry, got ready for the appointment and around noon was already on my way to the next bigger city. After my appointment I went for a walk around to see what neew shops opened up and then went home. Had some dinner, watched some TV and now I´m so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open.

I just wanna sleep in my cozy bed!!!!

Day 21 - Progress and the Golden Globes

I watched the Golden Blobes live yesterday on the German TV. Well, with the time difference it started around 2 a.m., but it was so worth it. On the one side a got a lot done on my mohair scarf cowl project and on the other side all the actors and movies I wanted to win really won. So it was a win win situation all the way. Both actors from Dexter won, my favourite TV show and Sandra Bullock for "The Blin Side", a really wonderful movie and she played excellent as always.

So what did you do?

Here are a few pics from the progress on the scarf.

Day 20 - Doing better!

Well, I had a wonderful weekend so far. I had like a 24-hou virus from friday to saturday, but was doing better around the time my friend arrived.

We went to the movies, to see a german production. It´s about two friends back in ´89 after the Berlin Wall came down who fly to the US to find the fater of one of them and they have a road trip from NYC all the way to San Fransisco. And how it had an impact on their live and friendship. A really good movie. Here´s a link to the trailer:



It was a really nice evening with Lasagne and Wine. So I slept in today and was knd of lazy, did knit on my mohair scarf and watched movies online but other than that, I didn´t really do something.

So more from my side tomorrow.

See ya!

Day 18 and Day 19 - SORRY! SORRY! SORRY!

I was so busy yesterday all day long and when I came home, a friend of mine called me, which I haven´t spoken to in a while, and we talked for almost 3 hours on the phone. During talking to her I didn´t fell really well. I don´t know why but I started freezing and then I was hot again, I was thinking, hopefully no cold!!!

So I took cold medicine, which wasn´t such a good idea because I spent half of the night in my bathroom. Eating my food backwords, as my friend told me, when I called her after because I had to hung up on her so quickly. I hate being or getting sick. So I went to bed early and didn´t think about the blog at all. SORRY!

And today will be busy too, because another friend of mine will visit me for the weekend and so I have to clean, go grocery shopping and do my laundry today. So there will be no time tonight to write for today. You will hear again from my side on sunday.

Sorry again and have a wonderful saturday!

Day 17- A lazy thursday...

Today I didn`t do a lot ... except drinking coffee, talking with friends and a lot of knitting.

So I don´t really have something to write today. But I found a funny clip on youtube today and wanna share it with you:


I wish you all a nighty night!

Day 16 - Walking miles and miles for yarn....

Today I had a long to do list I had to get done with and so was walking around a lot downtown today. Library, City Hall, the post office, sending out applications, several yarn stores and so on. But it felt really good today because today, unlike the weekend and the start of the week, the sun came out and it was still minus some celcius but it was warmer than usual. So being outside and breathing the fresh air felt sooooo good!

I met a really nice person through a request of mine on a flickr picture of hers. And we doing a yarn swap now, which I´m really excited about. So I found some really cool yarn for her (which I hope she will like) and also one skein for me. I know, I know... everybody who´s reading my blog since the beginning knows that I didn´t want to do that anymore. But I did! It was a weak moment and I didn´t do anything about it.

But look my happy face:


Doesn´t I look HAPPY??? It´s a hand dyed sockyarn, a bit thicker and right now I can´t decide between knitting socks out of it or maybe a really cool lace scarf I can also wear in spring?

Here is a better view on it:




And remember how I wrote yesterday, that I started with a mohair scarf / cowl project. It´s going pretty well but I´m not quite sure that the yarn I have will be enough. I thought first that I will knit it in the rounds, but that was quite difficult and so I´m knitting it on straight rosewood needles, which I bought while I visited a dear friend of mine in the states, and it´s going well. But like I said, I hope it will be long enough. The picture that follows shows how much I get out of one ball and I have three more to go. And it´s not like I can buy more, because it was sale out at a yarn store.... AAhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!




We will see how that works out. So much from my side. Have a good night!

Day 15 - Progress, progress, progress...

Hello there,

in the past I always started one knitting project and before I was done, I used to put it aside for a couple of weeks and started a new one. Because I saw a nice picture on flickr of something knitted and bought the yarn and started to knit it, saw something new, but it aside and started the new thing I saw. Well, I made progress here. I haven´t been buying any yarn lately, well, except for the greyish yarn with the black and white dots, for the baby jacket, but hey I finished this one, so I´m not counting it!

But I think I finally getting better at it. I was downtown yesterday and also visited the usual yarn stores I´m going to and I saw some really nice yarns but I didn´t buy any. Can you believe it? I didn´t buy any. I went home and continud with the projects I started and I finished the second february Baby Sweater today. I just got ne buttons for it because I don´t had those colors at home.




And just now I started the next project with yarn from my STOCK!!!! I already had this yarn and finally I´m knitting something with it. It´s Mohair, 25g and 100 m a skein, and a beautiful purple,pink, blue mix.




I saw a really nice picture of an Mohair cowl on flickr, here´s the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/norwayneedles/364438461/

But I don´t have any round needles that would work. It says 7 mm needles, which I have, but the round needles I have the string is to long and wouldn´t work in the beginning. You know to knit in the rounds.

So I´m trying a trick. I will start on straight needles for the first 2 rounds and then see if the length will fit with the round needles, so I can switch. Cross the fingers for me that it will work.

Other than that I talked a lot today with friends on the phone and making plans for the weekend.

Talk to you tomorrow, I wanna work a little bit more on my new scarf / cowl project.

Day 14 - Still snowing

Yes, yes, yes it´s still snowing here in Good old Germany...

But I had to go downtown today to a store and so I put on my wintercloth, hat, scarf and Gloves and walked there. Its not far away. You walk like 10 minutes. And it felt really good to be outside ans smell the fresh air.

When I walk downtown, I always take the shorter way over a cute bridge. Today I had my camera with me and took a picture.



Doesn´t that look pretty? Well, I back home now and will finish the baby sweater and the toddler sweater tonight. I hope they show something good on TV! ;-)