Day 29 - Last minutes gifts....

Progress on the last minute christmas gift for a friend. She don´t like the touch of real wool or any scratchy wool or yarn. I first wanted to knit her thrummed mittens, but after she told me I let her touch the filling and she sisn´t liked it at all. So I didn´t know what to do, because I already got her a cool shirt but also wanted to give her something crafted from me.

When I went to the supermarket on monday, they had that really soft yarn, called Pom Pom...it´s like little Pom Pom connected through strings. It´s not my yarn, because you can´t be really creative with it. But I had the idea that she will like it because it feels like a fleece jacket. So I bought four skeins in a nice rad color and will do a scarf/ cowl for her.

It will be the first and the last time I have knittted with this yarn, it´s definitively something for beginners but not for people who know how to knit like me.

Here are the pics:

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 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 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! ;-)

Day 13 - Sunday, sunday... lalalala....

Hello everybody,

I hope you all are enjoying your sunday. I did so far! Slept long, had a nice brunch and later this afternoon I will go to the movies to see the Vampiers Assistant. Yes, here in Germany we get the movies a little later to the movie theaters.

Today is a great day, because I opened up my own online shop on a german side for handmade items called dawanda. You can go check it out under this url: http://de.dawanda.com/shop/Lavenderstarfish

I also have screen shot for you guys:




I also almost finished with the second February Baby Sweater and will start as my next project a hat and a scraf with really worsted (BIG) yarn. in blue and green shades.

As usual I will keep you updated on this one as well.

Have a wonderful sunday, andd here is some music that always puts me in a summer mood:

Day 12, Winter Wonderland....

This is so tyoical for me! I went to the Supermarket yesterday and thought I got everything... well, turned out I didn´t. So I had to go again today. Imagine, it´s 9 a.m. and you´re ready to go outside and pull up your shades and see this:






Well, I had to go and it was really cold. Even with thick wintercloth I was freezing and so I was happy when I was back home in my nice and warm and cozy appartment. But I had to take a picture to proof how cold it was:



But I got myself cozy on my couch watched some TV and finished the Baby sweater and started a new one.

So far from my side for today. Nothing really exciting was happening.

Day 9 - Lazy, lazy, lazy day....

Today wasn´t much going on. I continued my work on the baby sweater and finished the body. Right now I´m working on the sleeves and finished the left sleeve.

It was so cold that I didn´t really wanted to go outside, but I had to get grocerys. So Iput on my winterjacket, hat, gloves and a really thick scarf and my best winterboots and went outside. And OH MY GOD!!!!!!! It was even colder than I thought. My face felt like freezing the second I went outside and it wasn´t getting better walking to the supermarket.

I felt a little bit like a mountaineer climbing up the Himalaya mountains, getting lost and not finding the way back! But after 10 minutes I reached the supermarket.

Well that was my day so far, not very interesting but I didn´t want to break my 365 days project.

But I have two pictures for you of the February Baby Sweater. One from yesterday and the other one is from today.



Yesterday,

an today.

Day 8 - I did so much today...

... and yet so less!

I didn´t really had to do something today but I thought I could some stuff done! Going downtown, to the library, getting some paperwork at the town hall done and so on....

WELL! Not happened! I got up, drank my cup of coffee and read my e-mails. Stil thinking about last night and how I had to rip apart that February Baby Sweater back to the start of the yoke... DAMM!!! That bothered me so much and I thought I could hear tiny laughs coming from the half knitted sweater... "Hihihihi... I´m to hard to knit! You´ll never finish me! Hahahaha... I will rule the world!" Well, that last part not really. A sweater ruling the world? An evil sweater? Hhmmm... maybe a nice Good Night story???? Anyways, it bothered me so much that I start knitting... and I have to tell you.Next to being a yarn junkie, I´m a hughe knitting junkie. It just feels good and relaxes me and I can alway think the best during knitting. I have my best ideas while knitting!

So, only knitting and no entertainment? Hhmmm, the radio wasn´t bringing much. So I searched the web for something good and new. On sunday I found a TV comedy from the states online. Called "Accidentally on purpose" and it is hilarious!!!!!! I liked it so much that I ordered the book by the author MaryF. Pols. And today I found the she Hawthorne which is about to start here in Germany. But I prefer to watch my shows in english. So I found the side and watched it online. Really cool too.... and during I got the problem with the february baby sweater solved and now started with the sleeves. I will finish it tonight!!!!! Well, at least I will try to finish it.

So far from my side for today...

Uuhh... wait I forgot the promised pics of the finished baby blanket and the progress on the lace scarf and the FBS... so here we go!

Day 6, Finished first of the posted projects

Hello everybody,

I hope you all had a wonderful sunday so far. I slept long and will enjoy a day inside because it snowed all night, and this is for me the best excuse to stay inside and continue on my projects.

I finished the baby blanket yesterday, while watching reruns of Grey´s Anatomy. Now I only have to cut the fabric so it has the right size to fit the back of the baby blanket. Can´t wait to sew the fabric on and see the finished blanket. I also decided to embroider the initials on the blanket. pictures will follow soon.

The next knitting project I will be able to finish today will be the lace scarf. This one knits up pretty fast and so I can post pictures of both tomorrow.

I also started a 365 picture diary on my flickr account with the side www.laphotocabine.com, this side is really cool. Here´s the pic I took today.

Have fun and talk to you tomorrow!