Jahr: 2009

pattern: simple plain sock. no pattern

yarn: about 70g drachenwolle „regenbogen tiger“

needles: 5mm circular needle

size: 40/41 – perfect fit for my feet 🙂

 

these socks helped to cheer me up immensely over the last few days. and i think i never knitted socks that fast! started the night of april 16th and finished the night of the 20th. yay for socks. i always knew that knitting was the new yoga *lol* but knitting is also therapy. anyway, the bright colours and great feel of the drachenwolle yarn did the trick. not feeling that miserable anymore 🙂

 

if you don’t like explicit language, don’t read on. i’m in a fuckin‘ mood to swear my heart out!

i just renamed the „boyfriend socks“ for „i hate men socks“.

why? because my damn, fuckin‘, lying, pretending, spineless boyfriend ditched me yesterday. yeah, a distance relationship is difficult but:

i:

• was prepared to do anything it takes to make this work
• would have flewn back and forth as often as i could
• was waiting for him online like an idiot every day
• was making plans for the future
• wanted to take part in his life
• was knitting socks, sending him baked cookies, even letting my damn hair grow (said he liked long hair), which makes me feel even more stupid
• am sitting here  now crying and feeling miserable 
• to say it with bridget jones: i will die as a lonely old spinster and be eaten by alsatians. and no, no mr. darcy in sight to save me.

he:

• wasn’t prepared to do the tiniest bit for this
• didn’t show up online and hung out with his friends instead
• everything was more important than me
• said that he couldn’t commit to a computer. wow, i always thought i was a real person. apparently not. what am i  then? a SLIGHTLY less attractive lara croft or something?!
• didn’t want to let me take part in his life and apparently wasn’t interested in mine either
• still sais he „likes me more than i could imagine“ and still wasn’t up to fight or put the tiniest effort into making this work, the lying prick
• sure is releaved to have gotten rid of the „burden“ that there is a „virtual“ girlfriend waiting for him and wanting to spend time with him

what to do with those socks now? i don’t feel like continuing anymore. more like burning them! and poking the guy with the pointy knitting needles at places where it really hurts!

wow, mind you, last year it was freezing cold over easter. it was snowing!

this year i’m sitting outside in a tshirt knitting at 10am on april 10th! how crazy is that… 🙂 can you hear the birds and the churchbells in the background?

i wish you all happy easter and some relaxing knitting days 🙂

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with this pullover!

as soon as i saw it in the new filati handstrick magazine (36, spring 2009) in the supermarket i knew i had to knit this!

at wolle rödel i found the perfect substitute yarn for it: siena, 100% merino extrafine superwash, 135m/50g. it cost me a fortune, but still a lot less than the original lana grossa yarn (linarte) the pattern had called for.

it had to be this warm yellow of course:

the pattern just has the sizes 36/38 and 40/42 so i recalculated it to 44/46.

i almost finished the front part – i’ll keep you posted! 🙂

last thursday my colleague reingard and me made a little yarn trip to bad soden, a small town outside frankfurt. we heard there was a very nice little yarn shop and we had to check that out of course!

while we were having a look around and a chat with the owner, she suddenly stared at my noro scarf and said „i know this scarf! is it possible that i’ve seen it at ravelry?!“ 🙂 well, of course she had. ravelry is my second home *lol* when i told her my ravelry nick she recognized me „wow, you are very active there, aren’t you? you are admin of the frankfurt group and you set up the frankfurt wool map!“

haha. brilliant. the warwick stole and me are famous:

pattern: babysöckchen from the book „Zwei Socken gleichzeitig stricken: Ganz einfach mit einer Rundstricknadel“

yarn: some scrap yarn

needles: 2.5mm circular needle (1.20m long)

i wanted to give magic loop and knitting socks on 1 circular needle a try. to understand the the technique i knit these cute baby socks with some wolle rödel scrap sock yarn. i like how they turned out. and i like magic loop knitting. it’s not as difficult as i thought and i love the fact that both socks are finished the same time. no single socks anymore 😉 and no chance to forget what you did on the first sock…

i will give them to whomever of my friends has the next baby. so, make an effort folks 😉

pattern: one skein – a stole! by katja jordan

yarn: 100g noro kureyon sock

needles: 5mm circular needle

size: 2.22m long, 43cm wide

i called this project „one skein warwick stole“ because i bought the noro yarn in warwick, england. really liked knitting this scarf because it grew sooo fast with the drop stitches. i also love the colours of the noro yarn, but i’m not a big fan of the touch. it’s quite itchy and the yarn has very thin parts and big lumps…

i’m blocking the scarf at the moment and can’t wait to wear it…