shopping, at last

I've been shopping for yarn, the first time in Stockholm (the local poor textile shop does not count, it is not in Stockholm)! It seems that I've found a nice store with a good selection of the Garnstudio yarns. Pity that it's rather far from my ~usual shopping route. Anyway, here's what I bought:
Yarn for a shrug (Muscat, 100% cotton) in beautifuuuuuul rich dark red.

Needles (3.5mm) to knit the shrug (what a banality).

Sock yarn (Regia Bamboo). In a ~very rainbowy colourway. Knew it would look strange, bought anyway. Am I crazy or what? (no, just couldn't stop myself)

But then, all in all, that's lovely yarn, isn't it?

halfway through

This weekend, I managed to get halfway through the newest Potter book (so far, only Hedwig the Owl and Mad Eye had died; I'm not giving anything else away) and the hedera sock.




As I was going along, I modified the heel, so that also the bottom part of it is "reinforced" with the slipped stitches:


It does not look very neat, to my disappointment. The reason is that yarn, at least in part, I think. Very nasty thing to knit with, indeed.

just like with knitting...

the horoscope presented to me this morning by MyYahoo (hope they don't mind pasting it here):

Quickie: Your ideas get projects started, but they are projects someone else must finish.
Overview: Feeling guilty because you skipped out on an important meeting? It's no big deal if you missed a moment. You're busy. Just like with knitting, you can go back and pick up a stitch and no one's the wiser.

no, i did not miss any meeting today. neither yesterday, and that's good because we were on a group-integrating trip to the ZOO. we're biologists, no?

hedera (i)

a bit rustic, but nice.

grump

I wanted to shop for yarn past weekend. It turned out that finding the yarn shop that's open on Saturdays is a challenge during the summer months. Activities of various sorts cease during the Swedish summer, including yarn shops opening. Some of the shops are closed for the whole month (!), I mean totally closed, not only on Saturday. All I'm left with is this strange yarn I managed to find in a local fabric shop with the less-than-limited selection of yarns.



It's a sock yarn, yes, but I wanted to knit a shrug! Anyway, it is not superwash wool, so it'll felt after a while. I started hedera socks but I am really not sure…


The Buddha figures are from Mongolian restaurant. Theoretically, one is given to each customer, but after a chat with the guy behind the bar I got two. The green one should bring wisdom and the burgundy one beauty. I picked these blindly. Might be useful ;-).

not just socks, BFF socks! (iii)

Couple of days ago I had a day when I could not bring myself to accomplish anything. Complete de-motivation was the motto of that day. I simply went home earlier and indulged in mindless knitting. The result is a finished object!
Logically, they'll be gifted to a friend. Here, modeled on my hair spray containers (her feet are much smaller than mine, so I didn't want to stretch the socks).





Pattern: BFF by Cookie A.
Yarn: Lana Grossa Meilwenweit Cotton Festa (42% cotton, 42% wool, 13% polyamide) 380m / 100g in color #4030
Needles: 2.5mm dpns
Comments: I like the socks! VERY much :-) The way the pattern is written is clear and understandable. The end result, socks that are interesting yet simple. The yarn I used, Lana Grossa Cotton, is pleasant to knit and to wear (tested on my previous socks). The only modification was the three-needle bind off instead of the toe grafting via Kitchener stitch.

saturday shot #13 (sunday edition)

wool-bearing animals, a photo recap of a trip to the ZOO in my hometown. about a month ago.

how true

THIS is very true sometimes. today.