Knitter's as avatar

Now it's offical: knitting is in, Yahoo has an avatar for it:


When you see it on yahoo, she actually knits a short straight piece and then it flies of her needles. Fun.

Color

I love how that looks:

http://arbroath.blogspot.com/2007/06/children-dish-up-street-art.html

Could do with some of it here.

Ishbel grows

I finally have gotten my groove with Ishbel. I am now on my third repeat of the A pattern and nary a mistake in all the lace so far and each caught in the next right side row. Wonder why this is so much easier then the plain knitting was? Probably because it keeps my interest. Of course coughing like crazy at work and getting send home for two sick days helped. I am now looking forward to wearing it!

Chez Leon

Outside our normal meetings we had a little one in the Café Chez Leon in Singen on Saturday. It was lovely, even though it was very loud. Thinking about that I believe home meetings are more us. It was nice meeting Babblesock and finally seeing Socke again. I am looking forward to the next meeting on the 28th.

My red sock is close to the heel so should get finished this week and then a pair for Bettina's kids will hopefully be done by the next meeting.

Sunday we lazed around and I cross stitched on my Indian lady.

More on the weddding

Geta's October Give Away

I have come across Geta's blog lately and she does wonderful work. Now she has a give away. Look here: Geta's October Give Away

Hockenheim

My brother took first place in his class in Hockenheim. We went to finally see what he was doing and MyGuy got a chance to ride with my brother for the instruction rounds and was very impressed and pleased with having had a chance to see the course for himself. Next year he wants to ride for one of the trainings which should be even more challenging. I was mostly cold, but pleased that they enjoyed themselves.

Mittens almost done

Just a few more threads to sew in and my mittens are done too. These have been a WIP since before I moved two years ago, so it feels good to get them done finally. Of course it is now so warm here (for fall) that even a jacket feels like too much, to say nothing of mittens. Nonetheless, more mittens are bound to appear here as I bought mitten yarn in Backnang.

Fall Socks done

I finished my fall rib socks, too, but still no picture. Though the internet is back to working.

Cory Socks done

My Cory Socks are done! No picture as internet and photographs are not working at home. But I am pleased and won't overdye them now.

Got Married

The ship we had our afternoon coffee on:


Cake Toppers on our carrot cake wedding cake:

The bus we traveled in: (1964)

Us:

Fall Socks

Having ripped the Ishbel and finished the coupon scarf I cast on for another pair of mindless socks. The fall colors of my other gift ball were just right. So the fall socks live near my TV chair and the Cory socks in my commuter bag. Nicely mindless all of it. Ishbel will be reborn after the wedding.

Ishbel

Ishbel will likely not survive this weekend. I had problems counting (argh!) in the stockinette area and I have now information from Betty on where she started the lace bit and which rapports, so I am going back and redoing mine. At least the coupon scarf is growing without problems.

I have also cast on the Cory socks from the yarn I got from Cory. In her honor they will be plain socks, I just turned the heel on the first one this morning. At first I seemed to be getting columns of the pink, then I didn't really like the pink. So little that I thought about overdyeing the socks. But now they have grown on me. Perfect train knitting.

Rubberducks

I have seen this on Fillyjonk and could not resist: Rubberducks in Huge and as art. What fun!

The Monday after

This is how far I have gotten with my Ishbel, just started the first pattern. Aparently I am unable to count and to add the same amount of stitches on both sides of the center. Strangly enough I ended up with everything working.

My "bonus" ball of yarn from my coupon, knit on 7mm needles for a nice loose scarf.

The lovely gifts I received for my birthday: thanks ladies! Dankeschön! Now which one to cast on....

Bodensee meets Backnang

The knitting group Bodenseetreff from Ravelry went to Backnang on Saturday to participate in the first German Ravelry meeting. As you can see breakfast and knitting were combined. After that the "feeding frenzy" for yarn bloomed and every single one of us has made some nice stash additions. Lovely day, great work by the organizers.

As a matter of fact I did not want to come home, not only does Backnang have a lovely yarn shop with lots of different brands, there is a quilt shop and I found 3 book shops just in the inner city. Heaven!

Julia/Julie Project

Been to the Movies again and watched the Julia/Julie project. I thought it was a nice movie, but the guy we had with us did not much care for it and MyGuy stayed home to begin with. The movie certainly made me want to cook more, even though I am normally not keen on it at all.

Morning Fog

This is a bit of morning views that MyGuy took pictures today. Nice!

Quilt of the Month

The international quilt study center has a quilt of the month. This month it is a quilt called Sock Monkey Jamboree, go have a look: Sock Monkey Jamboree.

Bird Brain Designs - Freebie Folk-Art Christmas tree

Bird Brain Designs - Freebie Folk-Art Christmas tree

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