knit another binary cable hat. this time for me and in just 2 days. i love the pattern. because it’s so nerdy and because it’s so quick! 🙂

knit another binary cable hat. this time for me and in just 2 days. i love the pattern. because it’s so nerdy and because it’s so quick! 🙂

london is not only good for sightseeing, party, music and all that, but also for crafts shopping. have a look at my treasures.
2 4oz skeins of cherry tree hill sock yarn (100% merino), simply knitting magazine, son of stitch ’n bitch:

i got those at „i knit“ near waterloo:

„i’d rather be knitting“ cup, england and mini star buttons:

i got those at „all the fun of the fair“ at kingsley court, carnaby street:

winding some lovely wollmeise „indisch rot“ to start a lace ribbon scarf while i’m in london. i don’t go anywhere without my knitting 😉
i love my swift and yarn winder. so comfortable. and fast. and fun. 🙂

pattern: binary cable hat
yarn: belday monaco, grey, acrylic
idea: i love the idea of this pattern! the cables represent the numbers 0 to 15 in binary. how? a cable twist = 1, no cable twist = 0. so what you can see on the photo are numbers 1 to 7 (+ half of 8). how cool is that! perfect present from nerd to nerd!

here it is, the first snowbird mitten is finished! 🙂 i love it. it’s such a lovely pattern!

hope a good soak will smoothen out the stitches a little…
i love them already! 🙂
pattern: showbird mittens, vogue knitting fall 2008
yarn: lana grossa cool wool 2000
needles: dpns 2.5mm
it’s great to knit! never boring but very easy… i hope the front smoothens a little when i block it…
front:

back:

i was thinking of a special scarf for some time… had a look at many shops but i didn’t find what i had in mind. but hey, i’m knitter, right?! so i just knit my dream scarf myself. 🙂
the idea: a long, wide, ribbed purple scarf with fringe!
so i got some yarn at ebay, 600g of austermann mombasa (100% cotton, 100m/50g)…

…and started with a very easy pattern. co 89 st, then k3, p3 aaaaaall the way until the scarf is about 2m long… which will take forever… but anyway 😉


the last 30 days…

felt it was time for a new ipod cozy… i got bored with my old, ugly rubber one and don’t like just tossing my beauty in my bags… so i came up with this rocking little cozy 😉
unfortunately i found out that felt isn’t great to stencil on. due to the texture of the fabric the paint soaks under the stencil a little.
but anyway: it’s pink, it’s stencil, it’s rock’n’roll!

i thought about making a whole bunch of these and sell them on etsy/dawanda shop. in all kinds of colours and with all kinds of messages… iRock, iPop, myPod, iDance,….
what do you think?! 🙂
today i invested a few dollars for the wordpress css extension. now i can modify the css of my blog *yippeee*
you can either build the site’s css from scratch or – as i did – use a design as basis and modify what you like.
i quite like the „misty“ design, so i used that and basically changed the width of the content block, the link colours and the headline image…so far so good.
let’s see what i come up with next. possibilites are (well, almost) endless! 🙂