things by t.

happy bunny

I have finally finished the bunnies I started a few weeks back. They will go up for sale in my Etsy shop tomorrow!

hello!

My name is...erm...actually, I don't seem to have a name. But I am all done now! I've been waiting to get my hair and scarf done for ages and finally this lady here decided she had the time.

Then she hands me over to her little boy! She said: Good luck! I wonder what she meant by that...

Anyway, he loves me! He said so. Perhaps not in so many words. But us dolls we are a clever lot, so we just know.

See you around! I hope.

huzzah

What a wonderful weekend!

I had the privilege of spending my time with nine lovely and talented beginner knitters of varying age - and there was even a man attending the class!

I am still not quite well from last week's cold, so I will blog more tomorrow. I just wanted to check in and give a little cheer. Next week will also be full of handicraft and creating, but of a different kind.

Main focus will be on finishing five mixed media bunnies for my Etsy store, but I also need to swatch for the two Sticksalongen projects I think I mentioned before.

bugger

I seem to have caught a flu bug or something at the Craft fair last weekend. I'm half deaf on both ears and keep blowing my nose. Urgh.

But no rest for the wicked. I am making some more granny square samples for a class I'm holding in March. The above are from Edie Eckman's wonderful book Beyond the square.

Although, to be fair, I should really be preparing something for this weekend already. I am holding a class in beginner's crochet. I do have a rough outline of what we'll be looking at, but it would be nice with some written material to hand out as well.

Only, my brain is so full of snot right now, I can hardly focus on reading the newspaper in the morning!

granny cushion

For some reason this makes me think of that sketch with Monty Python called "The Spanish Inquisition". You know, where they poke the old lady with a comfy cushion...!

Yarn is the beautiful Zauberball Stärke 6.

grand old lady and a half

Here is a preview of one of the kits that will be available at Syfestivalen this weekend. "Half a granny clutch" and a coin purse.  I will publish these here on the blog next week sometime, I think. Or post a link to Ravelry download.

I'm also putting the finishing touches to a two-sided cushion cover. Photos soon.

somewhat

...of a let down today.

I was to be Ms Knitting Lady at an Open House event organised by the organisation that hosts my crochet courses.

It was all very nice and fairly well-organised, but not a lot of people showed up at my "knitting café" table. I think the main reason was that it was payday weekend here in Sweden and perhaps also that my whereabouts wasn't so well advertised. I was downstairs in the real café area, but there was no sign at the entrance, only the text in the programme. I think it was a little bit too easy to miss.

Also, I didn't even have a sign at my table, so I had to make my own. Plus my name tag.

Um...so maybe not so well-organised after all.

But I did enjoy myself anyway. I got a few hours uninterrupted knitting/crochet time. Tried out some ideas I've sketched out recently. Talked to a few people, but noone sat down to join me.

spiralling - in control

Since I can't really show you the Christmas gifts I'm working on, here is the beginnings of Spiral legwarmers for myself. Using one skein Morjärv 2ply and one Drops' alpaca I think these will be snuggly warm. I am just a little bit worried I don't have enough of the Morjärv yarn, so I'm constantly weighting that skein to see how much I've used.

I also just finished Ella's headband from Interweave Crochet's Accessories issue. It took only one day, a very easy project. All it needs now is elastic and I can send it off to one lucky recipient.  I used a size 3mm hook with Drops Muskat in a really pale pink shade.

in the round

This is a exercise for a future course at yarn store Litet nystan. I will publish the pattern after the course has finished, along with some other basic granny square shapes.

in preparation

No rest for the wicked. That is, me. I suppose.