F.O. Friday - Getting ready

Are you participating in the Ravellenic Games 2012 ?
I am, and I'm so excited about it. 
I'm in such a cool team. Team AOK and yes we can only knit patterns from Army Of Knitters . 
I'm in the Event that's called Cast-On Trap Shoot which is all about casting on lots of projects, but not at the same time. Nope...
You have to cast on one project, knit at least 1/3 of it and then put it on hold , before you cast on another project. Great excuse to start a lot of AOK patterns :D
My plan is to see if I can get least 9 projects to 1/3.
My LYS had a sale and before I knew it *coughs* I bought a LOT of yarn.

Anyway.
Remember the CAL I was in, where I had to crochet a cow ? 
I didn't make it in time, the eyes I ordered didn't arrive until the day after the deadline, but they were worth waiting for. They look amazing.

 Say hello to the Muumuhs :

I also finished my deer from the Craftsy class, Woodland Animals I'm in.
I think she turned out fine :)

And last but not least.

Remebemr the dress I made for my daughter ? 

As promised some photos where you can see it on :) 

That's it from me this Friday. 

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W.I.P.Wednesday - So much to do and ..

so little time to do it in.
Anybody else than me, whom wishes for say 48 hours a day?
And I don't even work!
I can't really decide if I should be thankful or not, that the weather is too unstable to do gardening . My grass is growing like crazy and weeds are popping up everywhere, and I can't really do anything about it, but I also would love for the sun to shine more than what seems like only a few minutes everyday.

Anyway this week I have quite a few projects on needles and hooks. I'm trying to clean up my W.I.P.'s before The Ravellenic Games begin. You see, I'm in Team AOK and doing an event called Cast-on Trap Shoot, which basically means, that I'm suppose to start a project, knit 1/3, put it aside and then start over again....
Since I'm in Team AOK (Army Of Knitters), I will only be doing AOK designs..Yippee...And my brain is working on overtime, trying to decide which of Heathers awesome designs to make.
I'm not really that much of a sports junkie, but I'm pretty excited about this event and I can't wait to get started.
Are you participating in this years Ravellenic Games ?


Anyway back to my W.I.P.'s or at least a few of those I need to finish before the games begin.

First there's my Tigerlillies from AOK's KAL. I told you about it here remember ?

Not much progress, but working on it :)

It knits up pretty fast.



I'm also making an owl from Freshstitches book "Crocheted Softies". Hootie The Owl
I'm using a superwash wool "Smart" from Sandnes and crochet hook 4 mm since it's a DK weight yarn.

Last but not least, I'm working on a Cardigan for my mom in Tunisian Crochet. You can see my project page on Ravelry here
I hope I'll get it done before the weekend.Especially since I'm planning to knit something for my grandson (besides Hootie). His birthday is next week.

Anyway that's all for me this Wednesday.

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W.I.P. Wednesday - Cows and a KAL

I didn't really get around to showing any W.I.P.'s or F.O.'s last week.Sorry about that, but things got a bit crazy here and I had to act fast.
On top of that I had to celebrate my birthday twice so a busy week it was. I got some really great presents though. Among others I got a gift certificate for my local LYS and I immediately started thinking about what I would use it for.
I am down to two choices, both is from Army Of knitters (AOK). I really LOVE Heather Dixon's designs. They are to die for! And I want to make them all.

1. Sunflowers Cami and Sunflowers Skirt

or

2. Waterlillies

What do you think ?

I'm also waiting for the mail to deliver some books. I'm not entirely sure how many books I'll get, but I know that from my wishlist, one is bound to be Fearless Fair Isle Knitting if I get more than one it's going to be one of Staceys books (Freshstitches). Either Crocheted Softies or Cuddly Crochet .If I'm REALLY lucky and get all four books from my list, then the fourth one is going to be Knitting : Color, structure and design .

No matter how many I'll get, I am going to be SO happy when it arrives!

Anyway .Ready to see what I've been up to :

If you have been following my blog, you'll know about my eagerness to participate in Freshstitches Cow- CAL. You can read about it in a previous post here

I'm making a family of 3 cows. Mrs. and Mr. Muumuh and Little Cowey Muumuh. Unfortunately I am propably not going to make the deadline. I decided to order some handpainted eyes from suncatcher , but forgot that the delivery time from US to Denmark varies depending on where items ships from.
Ah well I wasn't in it for the win but for the fun.

My progress so far :

Mrs. Muumuh waiting to be stitched together :

Mr. Muumuh ready to be put together :

And Little Cowey : 

Oh wait he's  not done yet .Haven't even started him yet. 

Besides crocheting my cows, I've started participating in a KAL as in a Knit Along. I'm a member of the AOK (Army of Knitters) group over at Ravelry. 

We are knitting Tigerlillies . I'm using a different yarn than the one the pattern calls for , since it's not available here. I did find a nice substitute : Onion knit : Reiki.

1 skein = 40 to 50 g = 109 yds/100 m. Only handwash/Dry flat.Gauge : 15 sts 20 rows= 10 x 10 cm Knitting needles 5-6Contains 9 different yarns.Fibres : 30 % Polyamide 27% Mohair 20 % Acrylic 12 % Wool 10.5 % Viscose0.5 % CottonMy progress so far : 

Oh and last but not least. I've started on my Deer from Staceys class at Craftsy using Marks and kattens Victoria

that's it from me this W.I.P.

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