Gifts given

Good Morning everybody,

this year I have made 2 birthday-christmas gifts myself. But of course I forgot to take a picture of the christmas gift before mailing that. My head was full with other things as you might imagine. I will ask the receipient to take a pic once she got her parcel :)

So, my Dad asked for some socks for his birthday. AAAND they had to be midcalf. So to make things a bit more interesting I used Cat Bordhis Coriolis pattern again with 2*2 ribbing for the leg-portion of the socks.
Both socks were knit a the same time after finishing the heel.
Yarn: Belday Sockyarn (from a swap)



Since I had some of the blue yarn left over after knitting for ever in the round and wanting to poke my eyes out (thus declaring the socks long enough) I made 2 preemie hats. One of my co-workers collects them for a clinic in Hamburg.
Out of the 25gr I had left I managed to get 2 hats! I need to weave in the ends before I can give them to my co-worker but I think she's on vacation now. Maybe I will dig into my stash to see if I have more leftovers. I don't want to use the black yarn though.... not really suitable for preemies I think.

Other than that I just knitted a few rounds on my FLS....

Thank you and merry christmas

Thank you all for your kind words. My Grandma was very dear to my heart. I'm so gratefull, that she lived most of the 94 yrs of her life in good health and close to the family.

Still I wish you all a merry merry christmas and that 2010 may be a healthy and happy year with full of pleasant surprises!

Ich stelle ein Licht für Dich auf

Annemarie Jöns
gestorben 22.12.2009

Du fehlst mir schon jetzt unendlich.
Danke, dass ich Dich kennenlernen und liebhaben durfte.
Du hast mein Leben geprägt.
Ich liebe Dich und werde Dich nie vergessen.

you spin my head right round :)

like a spinning wheel right round, round, round.

or something along that line :)

See, another post within 2 weeks! whoo hoo! Work is still pretty pretty exhausting with tons of working over time. Thus my major spare time activity is spinning at the moment (and knitting on the bus. I finished my dads socks IN TIME. another woo hoo)

So, this is the roving Annika gave me in Paris:



On the bobbin the the spun single, the fluffy stuff is the pre-drafted roving and the thick thing in the back is the undrafted roving :) What a difference drafting makes!

I'm really getting the hang of this spinning thing :) I started my first real project out my own handspun. This is part of the yarn I made for the cardigan:


The pattern will be a variation of the february lady sweater :) but without the lace, since there will be stripes, a lot of stripes :)