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.

Amigurumis I made....

Today I´m posting a few pictures of two Amigurumis I finished. One is a turtle and the other one is a bunny, well here I still have to finish the ears. But they´re really cute. The turtles name is Emma and the rabbits name is Max.

I´m excited to do more amigurumis in the future. But for now I will make a stola for a friend of mien I will visit soon.

Yarn Stash and Audiobooks

It´s tuesday today, my last free day before I have to go back to work and the weather is still aweful. It´s raining Cats and dogs right now! So I had to put my outdoor activity today to the afternoon. I wanted to go to our puplic libary today and see if there are any good books about knitting patterns! And Audiobooks, I knit the best when I can listen to something interesting. Like a thriller or a comedy.

So I thought, hhm, what can I do until then and I thought I could bring my yarn stash and knitting equipment in order. So I´m taking pictures right now, writing down how many I have of each and then list it in my ravelry account. So I´m always up to date and it can also help me getting better ideas for my next projects.

So I will be a busy bee now and sort my yarn stash and upload a picture later to let you all know how it looked like.

Greetings from a rainy Germany,
B.

How I got my name!

It´s always interesting to see how some people come up with their names for their blog, their flickr account or their little business for crafts. I´m always interested in it, so I think it´s just fair to let you know how I came up with my name.

It´s pretty simple.

I love the ocean and beng on the beach. I was quite a few times in New England and I just love being at the ocean there. It is my dream to have a house at the ocean one day and live there. Well, when I was there i collected seashells, funny looking stones and I bought some starfishs. They look cool to me and it is really interesting that they once lived.

I started out to love the color blue when I was younger, but now, a few years later I changed completley and like more colors in the driection pink and grenn but I love the color lavender and I like the plant lavender as well.

So I thought why not combine these two things I like the most and create my name for blogs, flickr and so on out of it?

That´s the story how I got my name. How did you get yours?

New pictures uploaded

It´s saturday morning in Germany and I´m sitting in front of my computer with a hot cup of coffee and just uploaded new pictures to my flickr Account. (You can find me there with my Name "LavenderStarfish".)

They contain information of a finished project, where I knitted and felted a bag for my longer knitting needles. But it got to short after the felting and would now fit my normal knitting needles. I will finish it anyways with fabric in the inside and embroidery on the outside and I found a ute little wooden button.

It also contains information about the Hatscarf I´m knitting right now. I hope I can write it like that? It´s a cute little pattern with different cable stitches but you have to focus when you´re knitting it. If you´re familiar with German, it´s an easy pattern, I posted the link for it in my flickr Account. If you need help with the translation just contact me and I will help you!

Also I posted some pics of new yarn I found @ a local department store for less than the normal price and got one of each color. This yarn will be only for my amigurumi ideas. Let´s see how they will turn out in the future.

Have fun with my posts and my pictures,
B.

Waiting for my Ravelry Invite

On Monday, February 9th 2009 I signed up for an invite to the ravelry site. I do have a Flickr Account where I also searched for fresh ideas regarding knitting and crocheting. Most of the adorable patterns have been from this site, so I got the impression that there is no way around Ravelry. Being from Germany, I had no idea what Ravelry is. So I googled it and did the Beta tour on the page. It looks easy to maintain your projects, pictures and everything. Also I got the impression that all the people I got to know through Flickr, swap-bot.com and google, who are also into knitting and crocheting, are there and share their passion with mindlike friendly people. Unfortunately in Germany we do have some boards about crafts but nothing like Ravelry. So I´m excited to get my invite ans start my profile!!!

Hello everybody...

I´m a total crafts junkie and started with knitting and crocheting when I was 10 years old. But haven´t done anything after that. Since 3 years now, from time to time I made something for friends and family as a gift for a birthday or christmas. Everybody loved my creations and always said, I should take it a step further.As far as the knittng, I can do hats, scarfs, Mittens and socks and I love the cable stitch. Lately I tried moreand mre Lace patterns. Since a few month now I got more into crocheting because of an amigurumi book I got for my birthday. I´m working on a monkey right now. Let´s see how it will lokk like in the end.I hope I will find more creative people on blogger, with who I can share my passion for crafts with and also experiences with their work.