F.O. Friday - Cuddly, snuggly

Been on a picnic with my youngest daughter to a local park. We had a great time and the sun was shining all day.

Of course. No picninc without some crafting and a book to read , while she was playing.

Anyway it's F.O.Friday.
Being busy with The Ravallenics and an event that requires you NOT to finish what you start, I still got to fasten off a few projects.
As I wrote  here , my grandsons birthday was up and I was making presents for him.

First there's one of Freshstitches patterns from her book Crocheted Softies. I love making her patterns.

Meet Hootie The Owl made in Smart from Sandnes.

Then the Sunnyside Cardigan got done. It's hard to see with the yarn I used, but there's cables in the pattern.

That's it from me this friday.
So did you get anything finished this week ?

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Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

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

Yesterday my oldest daughter , son-in-law and my grandson came for a visit. They brought souvenirs from their vacation in Bulgaria. I got a lovely new wallet. My daughter remembered that my old one was pretty worn out.

We had a great day together and it was pretty late before they drove home :)


Anyway it's W.I.P. Wednesday.

I've been working on a lot of things.

First there's progress on an owl for my grandson, it's part of his birthday presents. Of course it's another one of Stacey aka Freshstitches patterns.

And a cardigan knitted in one piece. Oh how I love when there's almost no weaving ind ends and sewing together at the end.
And it knits up fast even on small needles :)

It's the Sunnyside Cardigan, a free pattern which you can find here . There's a "girl" version and a more "boyish" version. I used Drops Fabel in a colorway they call Chocolate.

Next I made progress on my Tigerlillies.

I love this one. It's fast, knitted in one piece and you can watch a lot of tele while knitting. 

Then there's the Ravallenic games 2012. Remember from my last post here

Well. First I started on the Sunflowers Skirt. It's done by around 35 % . Yarn used is Drops Muskat.

So now it's resting until after the Olympics.

Next I continued with The Sunflowers Cami also in Drops Muskat.

I am having so much fun with this event.

My third Cast On is Pumpkin Pie in Drops Paris.

I'm actually a lot  further than the photo and hope to get to 34 % tonight. 

Anyway that's all for this Wednesday. How about you ? 

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Thanks for stopping by :) 

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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Happy Friday !

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.

Thanks for stopping by and reading/commenting :)

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Happy crafting!

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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W.I.P. Wednesday - Still muuhing

Progress has been very slow on my CAL , 'cause my secret project had a deadline.
Well deadline was yesterday and if you want to know what my secret project was, you can see it here

Back to todays W.I.P' s

I'm going to show 2 of them.

First is my progress on my cow.
I'm planning on doing a family of 3 and Mrs.Muhmuuh is the first . Not finished yet but getting there :

So far I've made the spots, body , legs and arms.

I recently bought Kitty Knits by Donna Druchunas and in my stash I have 4 skeins of Aimee, which can be used for The Peruvian Cat Lace Scarf , so this evening I did the CO and a little bit of the pattern.

I really love Aimee, to bad it's being discontinued. It has 90 % Cotton and 10 % Cashmere and it is soooo soft.


I know I propably shouldn't have started another project, since I'm joining a KAL that starts 1.-7. , but it was too tempting.

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Have a wonderful Wednesday :) 

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W.I.P.Wednesday : My CAL project and more.

So today is Wednesday and I have a lot of projects on my needles and hooks as always.
I'm only going to share pictures of two of them.

I'm still working on my Teddy Bear Huggy Blanket which you can read about here .No newer photos though since I have a big and important project going on.

So Stacey from Freshstitches has started a CAL, which involves crocheting Jackie the Cow ,one of her adorable must-make- patterns. Yeah I'm a sucker for her patterns and I'm not ashamed to admit it! haha.
Of course I had to participate.

I'm not quite done choosing my colors, but I've started out with a dark pink for the body :

I'm using a 100 % acrylic for this cow. It's Jette from Hjertegarn.

Besides that. I'm doing a secret knitting project.
And it has a deadline!
Oh yeah. A VERY short deadline I might add.
I REALLY hope I can make it. Haven't been knitting since before Christmas. And I already had to rip out 15 rounds of lace pattern.
Reminder to myself : Remember a safety line!

I'm using 2 types of yarn :
Muskat which is a 100 % mercerised Egyptian Cotton, it has a fairly firm structure when knitted which is needed for some parts of this pattern.

The other  yarn is :
Cotton Viscose , a 54 % Cotton , 46 % Rayon. It has a nice shine ,but is a bit slippery to knit with when not used to it.


A sneak Peek : 

I hope everyone has a great and productive Wednesday.
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The cutest

grandson anyone could ever have, came to visit his grandmother.
 I don't get to see my grandson very often ,so I was very happy when my daughter and son in law asked if I would babysit for 2 days...
Those 2 days got extended to 4 days since everything went smoothly (they had stuff to take care of) , I'm a bit surprised at how smooth everything went. 10 month old and not once did he act up or seem to miss his parents.

I haven't really crochet that much in those days, but I did finally finish a dog for my youngest daughter. More about the dog here

Better late than never and I think he turned out just fine.
I made him in 100 % cotton worsted weight and a size 4 mm crochet hook.

I also made a beanie. A friend of my daughter asked if I could make one for her son when she saw  my grandson wearing his. I used  a 100 % cotton, Victoria  from Marks and Kattens. Double stranded and a size 10 mm crochet hook.

I bought the pattern at Craftsy here and it's designed by Busy Mom Designs

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