Everything knitting related - finished objects, works in progress...
My camera's been taken... by Nick, to Germany, where he is on holiday. So I have no means to post any new photos. SoI'll just link to Flicr, where I have a few photos of my Sauna-socks.
I'm back from my little holiday in Finland! I left last week's Friday, and returned on Wednesday afternoon. It was really lovely there, I had luck with the weather and was meeting so many friends after a while - one after 8 years! Here's some bits of the trip.
Palasin lomaltani Suomesta! Lähdin viime viikon perjantaina, ja tulin keskiviikkona. Oli ihanaa, sää oli mahtava ja tapasin laumoittain ystäviä pitkästä aikaa - yhden jopa kahdeksan vuoden tauon jälkeen! Tässä kuvia.
This week has been crap. Really stressful sometimes, sometimes very boring. Haven't really been keen on knitting - well I haven't actually been interested in anything this week. I hope for better times with more motivation and strength. I did buy a Spanish self-learn course today, so I'm sure that'll get me out of this slump. And! I'm going on a short holiday in 2 weeks. Can hardly wait.
Some sock joy to share anyway: I finished the second child's sock for my cousin's son. I just need to block them now.
Here they are! My ready Rainbow socks. They came out pretty nice, the cuff is quite a lot tighter in the other sock... but I've decided not to mind.
I also heard that my cousin has just got a new baby, and that of course means I just absolutely must-need-have to knit her bootees, and socks for her 2-year-old big brother.
These bootees are just for practice, as I really didn't master them the first time...
I got it! I found it! I've been trying to hunt this book down for a good while, and now I found it in Hodges Figgis bookstore!
Of course, It's bound to nearly disappear in my knitting chaos.
I finished my ankle socks (again...) and this time they're both knitted in similar gauge. I think they came out quite nice:
There's a photo of the very pretty heel in Summer of Socks Flicr site - I know I started these before the SOS started, but since I'm not counting them in to the most socks knitted (well, I'm not taking part!) I thinks it's ok.
Nic and me went for a long weekend to rural South Germany, and boy was that relaxing! The weather was very nice for the first two days, so I just sat on the porch, sunbathing and knitting. Here's what I accomplished.
Sunday was a Hot Day. Brilliant, beautiful sunny day. That calls out for relaxing in the Pheonix Park, knitting the second Ankle Sock, hiding in the tall grass and cuddling the lovely Nic *not published by the wish of the photoshoot object*
Of course I burned myself in the process. Anyhow, that didn't matter too much, because once we got home we started preparing a barbeque; a a few friends were coming over and we tried out best to make the table respectable. I think we succeeded
Finally a clowdy evening to blog, it's been too beautiful to sit next to the computer.
