colourful Kiel

Hi there,

after spending a kind of long weekend with my Grandma (who's totally cool but too much time spend with her, I want to poke my eyes out with my knitting needles) I'm absolutely tired, so I think it's time to show you, what I have done the last weeks.
(I'm also sewing but it's not finished and very very simple. But there will be an FO too soon, so to say tomorrow evening it should be done...)

I've done some dyeing in the last few weeks. (mel, this is for you ;) )

Here's walnut


It's a bamboo-wool blend in fingering weight. The yarn was dyed using green walnuts, ca. as much as I could fit in one of my hands and 1.5 liter of rain water. I chopped the walnuts into small pieces and put water on top. Next I tossed the yarn into the water. Stirring it every 12 hrs and after 48 hrs it was "done".

Then there's ravelry day.

A 50gr skein BFL, dyed with natural extract dyes on the ravelry day in coventry



For Molly, I dyed this bamboo-wool blend for our sock swap. I'm getting some bronze dpn and she will get firestarters from me.



The colour is not really true. Somehow it's not as "cool" as in the picture.

For me again is Fuchsia. I really wanted to try out this new baseyarn



But there has been knitting too :)

My rivendell socks are finished and they are the absolute greatest socks I have knit so far:

Pattern: Rivendell Socks by Janel Laidmann
yarn: Rittersporn by Wollmeise (100% Merino)

And finished this weekend at my Grandma's house



Spiraling Coriolis by Cat Bordhi
Yarn: Drachenwolle "Himmel & Erde"
The yarn looked so different on the skein.
This pair fits perfectly (or without the ly?), so DH, who never ever asks for something knitted, wants a pair too. And my dad will get one pair for his birthday too.

And my WIP, something totally easy. Dishcloths from yarn from the Sarah-Stash



Parting shot:

Was Elsbeth
is

Der Adler ist gelandet/the eagle has landed!

Hi everybody,
hallo allerseits,

it's Santa Socke!
Santa Socke here!

I'm with Liane now and I just want to show you a few pictures of Liane and me!

Ich bin jetzt bei Liane und will Euch nur ein paar Fotos von Liane und mir zeigen.

Liane and I met at tini's sisters house last weekend and what a surprise it was for Liane.

Liane und ich kamen endlich an letztem Wochenende im Haus von tinis Schwester zusammen und welche Überraschung es für Liane war.



Tini used a Santa Claus bag, since I am kind of a Christmas gift and we do share the first name :)

Tini nutzte eine Weihnachtsmanntasche, da ich ja doch irgendwie ein Weihnachtsgeschenk bin und ich ja doch den gleichen Vornamen wie der englische Weihnachtsmann habe.



First, Liane had a good look at the book tini has made out of all what I have written so far and with all the pictures of my trip.

Erstmal musste Liane sich das Buch genau anschauen, dass tini mit all den Texten, die ich geschrieben habe und mit all den Bildern meiner Reise.


and then she spotted the bag, in which I was hiding!

und dann sah sie die Tasche, in der ich mich versteckte!



Liane was so happy to see me and I was so happy to see her.

Liane war ziemlich glücklich mich zu sehen und ich war auch ziemlich froh, sie zu sehen.

I told her all of the project and she really did not know, that I really travelled that far. She thought, tini was knitting me and was sending the postcards, although she was kind of supicious since there were different handwritings and the poststamps were different. And the postman was curious too :)

Ich habe ihr dann alles über meine Reise erzählt and ihr war wirklich nicht klar, dass ich doch tatsächlich so weit gereist bin. Sie dachte, tini hätte mich gestrickt und würde die Karten schicken. Doch unsicher war sie schon, da ja die Handschriften und die Poststempel verschieden waren. Auch der Postbote hat sich schon gewundert.

Now I'm happy living with Liane. Thank you all for participating. Liane says Hi and Thank You!

Jetzt lebe ich glücklich bei Liane. Vielen Dank an alle fürs Mitmachen. Liane lässt schön grüssen und sagt ein großes DANKE!

The joys of summer

Hi there,

it's summer here or it's supposed to be summer. At the moment the weather is kind of blah though, so it's perfect knitting weather and my Rivendell socks are nearly done.

But the weather has been lovely and we spend a very pleasant afternoon at our friends house after the baptismal of their youngest daughter Johanna. My friend had asked me if I could make a cake and sure I could. So here I proudly present my Marzipan-Strawberry cake:



it was delicious, if I'm allowed to say so myself.
I have to admit, that this is one of the joys of summer for me. Fresh berries. I love them all: raspberrys, blackberries, black and red currant. And cherries :) and also plums. Isn't it great to walk over a farmers market, seeing all the fresh, local produce? I think it is awesome. Like the cake. There's over a kilo of strawberries in and on top of the cake.

The recipe can be found here. All the guests said 5 stars :) for this cake