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Hi there,

last week was week from hell workwise! I'm "on loan" in a new group of our department and they are really short on people. The work I'm doing there is related to my usual job in a lot of ways but still different (more like the job I had before changing employers 4 yrs ago). So it's tons of extra hours at the moment. From tuesday till friday my timecount went up by 5 hrs.

So once at home I mostly feel like spinning at the moment, which calms me down a lot. I need to take pictures though. So far I like, what I'm producing! Soft merino yarn, that will be a cardigan at some point, but I think I need more than the 350gr I produced so far.

Surfing the interwebs I came across this video! It's H.I.L.A.R.I.O.U.S!
Have fun!




P.S: will take pictures soon but need to decorate the house first! Today it's the first advent, so the christmas deco has to be put up!

Knitting up a storm

Ha, two posts in two days!

This one is going to be about knitting :) since I still do a lot of commuting by bus I have a lot of knitting time (and is easier to do that in front of the tv but then I'm also spinning in front of the tv...)

So, three of my friends gave birth the last few weeks. Anja and Asa had baby girls and Annika had a baby boy.

For Theis (the baby boy )I knitted a baby surprise jacket out of some gray yarn that I had found at a flea market (of course I washed it before knitting with it) and that now features some metal buttons, that I had in my stash:


Pattern: Baby surprise jacket (ravelry link) by Elizabeth Zimmermann
Yarn: Karstadt "Reine Wolle" loong discontinued

For Karina (Anjas Baby) I made another Elizabeth Zimmermann pattern. The Tomten jacket out of some of the Sarah-Stash. I have nearly used up all of the Cottontots, that Sarah has send me! I knitted the jacket out of different colours I had and dyed them up.
Pattern: Modular Tomten Jacket (ravelry link) by Elizabeth Zimmermann
Yarn: Bernards Cottontots 626 Meter according to ravelry

For a charity called "christmas in a shoebox" I packed a package for a 10-14 yr old girl. The packages are distributed to kids in poorer countries and are often the only christmas gift they'll receive, since the parents have in most cases just enough money to feed the family. I wanted to add something knitted, so I made some fingerless mittens out of some yarn, that I got from my secret pal 12 pal. The contents of the yarn are unknown, but I hope, it is superwash...


Pattern: Fetching from Knitty
yarn: half of the skein, that I got from my secret pal pal.

Finally I finished the socks for the trade I have with Molly

Mods made: Since I made these sock waaay longer than the pattern suggests I added 2 stitches every patternrepeat to allow for a more shapely calf.
Pattern: Firestarter (ravelry link)by Yarnissima together with the math from the "new pathways for socknitters" to figure out the numbers for a custom fit!
yarn used: A merino-bamboo blend, that I handdyed myself. The purple was dyed using Ashford dyes, the brown is dyed with green walnuts. 460 meter

I also made 2 hats using Ysolda Teagues "Icing swirl hat" but I don't have pictures of them yet. Also used stash yarn for that.

All in all, goood stashbusting projects! At the moment I have just one project on my needles, Socks for my Dads birthday on December 10th, so keep your fingers crossed, that they will be finished by then!

Hope to see you soon! Have a great weekend!

Some kind of sewing post

See, another break that was not intended.
Since I had promised you a sewing post and my jacket is still not finished, I did not post at all. Maybe I should not promise to post about a certain topic... I'll try to post on a more regular basis though, maybe at least once every fortnight...

So what have I been up to?

First I went to the European Patternreview weekend in Paris.



I had a rough start with Paris, so to say. My trip to Paris went pretty smooth, except that the lady from Air France did tell me, that ANnika needed to take the trip TO Paris to get back with me too. Since Annika was in Paris already, that wasn't an option, so we had to book another more expensive flight for her while beeing in Paris.

Than I had pre-booked a shuttle from The yellow van. I did follow their instructions to call them before getting my luggage. After the 10th attempt with nobody answering the phone (and I was on time!) I got my luggage and went to the information booth. They tried to call: no answer either. I did look around to find them but no luck, so I took the metro, where a guy talked to me the whole time and I just got rid of him one train stop before getting to Montmatre.

Our hotel was very nice and cozy. It was the Regyn's and I can recommend it.

The first day we went to see the Vionett exhibtion at the Louvre. An amazing exhibit and I met the most charming people. Here's our group at dinner time


One Parisienne is missing, so Lara, this is for you

btw. the shawl is sooo awesome

Saturday I went sightseeing with Val and Annika, but I didn't buy fabric or so. In the evening we did our ugly fabric swap and I scored big time. Val was so nice to swap the fabric I had won with me and I got this lovely fabric


and I got some nice fabric I will use for a lining, but that I haven't a picture of that.

Next day, the remaining ladies and I took a tour on the Seine, which was cold but nice.
Here we are in our thick coats standing in front of the Eiffel Tower


Annika, Val and I went to see the Monet pictures at L'Orangerie afterwards and bade all the remaining ladies farewell.

On Monday morning Annika and I made the last visit of the trip to the Montmatre cemetary, where I nearly catnapped a cute little gray stray but I guess Greebo and Cookie would have been happy with that...


Luckily the shuttle service picked us up this time (they were also very rude to Annika) and we came to Kiel after that. Annika spend the week here and we had tons of fun including Annika learning how to spin, but I will show you these pics another time.

Have a great weekend!