WIP Wednesday: Just the two (rows) of us...

In December I startet to knit this wonderful "Sea Pearls Hat" I found on Ravelry (if you aren't a Ravelry user you can see the hat here). I got two balls of mohair wool for Christmas and tried to finish this project until New Year because I wanted to wear it in my holidays.
Maybe I was too hectic or just stupid but just five rows before finishing the hat I realized that I forgot to knit the main part of my work. How stupid is this?! I knitted the cuff and than started the decreasing rows.
Because mohair is so hard to frog it took some days and I restarted my project this week.
I hope I have enough time between all my university stuff to knit on this evening. Because there are only two knitted rows until today I didn't want to show you my project but this wonderful row counter bracelet my dear friend Weird made for me.

Rough Sea Cowl

My mother is an enthusiastic knitter - especially her knitted dresses are great! Sadly they don't suit me.
My Mum is a little shy and unsure with internet things. It made a lot of work to persuade her for a Ravelry registration - but here she is!

I gave her one of my favourite art yarns for Christmas: Rough Sea. She knitted a wonderful cowl / scarf / whatever out of it and you can admire it on Ravelry now.
Maybe you like to give her some hears and comments :-)

(Did you discover her wooden earrings? They are selfmade, too!)

Happy New Year!

(c) by bupowski
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas / Yule / Hanukkah or whatever you celebrate! Maybe there were some nice wooly presents? I hope so. :-)
Tomorrow, on December 30th, I'm on my way to meet friends in Southern Germany to have some great New Year's days. We will be outside for walks, have a sauna, play boardgames and - as always - eat wonderful food. I'm so glad! Hopefully this will be a great end for this so bad year 2011 and make the following year much more lucky, happy and healthy.
I'll be home on January 2nd and restart shipping yarns on January 3rd. If you like to order some yarns you have to be a little patient.

I wish you a happy new year - have a wonderful party :-)
See you in 2012, which starts with my first shop anniversary.

Colours of December

Lst weekend I restarted spinning art yarns. I didn't spin for a long time because there was so much chaos in my life. I'm in my new flat since October but here is still a lot to do. I didn't unpack all my boxes, I have less furniture and had to wait for my money. So I was in a bad mood and uncreative.
In November everything became a little more positive and so I'm back! :-) As you can see I'm in love with colourful yarns and prefer flowers and glitter.

The red yarn is my favourite, it's simple but so beautiful. It was really hard to decide if I want to sell this yarn. I'll spin a similar art yarn for me, I think. You'll find all yarns in my shop soon (the firs ones are already there).

If I had a wish...

If I had a wish or two I would love to get this items for Christmas. This are some of my all-time-favourites from my favourite Etsy shops and some new things I discovered.
What would you like to get?

New fibres from LadyRamone

On Friday I got a consolatory parcel from some good friends. There were a lot of wonderful things in it, among other things I got new fibres dyed by LadyRamone. And I love love love them :-)

It's a merino / tencel blend and I'm really curious to spin tencel the first time. (I had to look it up at Wikipedia because I didn't know the fibre.)
The very suitable name of the blend is "Summer Party".

Thanks a lot, Weird & Twisted (I think Twisted is the giver?), for this present!

German Raveler Meeting

Last weekend the 2nd German Raveler Meeting took place in Frechen near Cologne. I was there on Saturday and a little surprised: The hall was not so big as I thought. The attendants sat at long tables like in Hogwarts or in a henhouse :-)
It was loud and crowded and I was so happy to recognize some familiar people. I met Aud and Dagmar in Essen last year and was so agog to meet LadyRamone in reality.
I had some nice conversation and knitting / spinning time with these so kind women. I met some other people but I'm always so shy in these situations...

I just took one photo of LadyRamone and an other Raveler (I don't know her name). At Maschengold's blog are a lot of photos, among others there are two where you can see me :-) I hope it is okay, that I stole them (the firs ones in this post).

Of course I had to spend some money and bought such a wonderful little wooden spindle made from plum. And I bought some blue fibres.

WIP Wednesday: Lady Marmelade armwarmers

I'm "a little" late this week, I know. I'm still renovating my new flat and my first semester as a master student started last week - so there was and still is a lot to do for me.

Last weekend I traveld around because I was at the German Raveler Meeting in Frechen/Cologne and at the Frankfurt Book Fair - but I'll blog about this later.
As always I went there by train and had some time for starting new fingerless gloves. I used yarn which I spun from LadyRamones fibres. This is really cool, because I met her the first time at the Raveler Meeting and she is so pleasant :-)

Shelly Coat Scarf

Last week my friend Antonia bought one of my favourite art yarns: Shelly Coat. She started knitting a super soft scarf and yesterday send me some photos of her wonderful work.
Sadly you can't see the shells in this photo but it's nice for a general impression.

My sister's armwarmers

 

My sister can’t wear animal fibres because her skin is very sensitive. So I knitted some armwarmers from cotton / synthetic fibre for her birthday in August. I always forgot to take some pictures of the armwarmers - but yesterday my sister e-mailed me some.

Take a look on Ravelry :-)