tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339760992011-11-22T21:27:08.979ZQuesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.comBlogger1311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-41267394315271321482011-11-22T21:00:00.001Z2011-11-22T21:27:08.986Z

In Germany, Nikolaus is on the 6th of December. On the evening before you put out a (clean!) shoe in front of you door and come the morning, Saint Nikolaus has come and gone. And if you've been good during the year he will have left you a little present. (And if you've been bad, he'll have left you a rod to be punished with, yeah, very old tradition.) Nikolaus is knitted with Cascade 220

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Well over a year ago the Craflit and Knitty holiday tour stopped off in Wales. And we met up and had a lovely evening chatting and meeting each other. For that meet-up we had arranged a scarf-exchange and Patti and I partnered up. Here's us with our new scarves (that would be Patti on the left and me with the gorgeous scarf she knitted for me on the right): And I have finally gotten around

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Just a little teaser - I'm currently working on this: My little gang. Never knew Santas could look that much like mafiosi. Pattern will be available in a little while, am currently sorting through photos and waiting to hear back from the lovely JenAC who is doing the tech editing. :) Oh, and did I mention that the pattern will be my Christmas present to you this year? For this year it'll be

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First things first: last saturdays Knit Surgery raised nearly 33 pounds (and I made a new knitter)! Not quite sure which one makes me prouder. ;) Though there was a certain irony that a German was teaching a Portugese to knit in Wales whilst fundraising for p/hop and Doctors without Borders. It amuses me no end. But then I am easily pleased. Yarn and knitting needles usually do the trick nicely.

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Just a quick post to say that the next Knit Surgery will be this Saturday (the 15th October 2011) at Big Knitters (Wellfield Rd, Cardiff) from 11 am onwards. I'll definitely be there until about 2pm and after that you have to try your luck. ;) So - if you have any knitterly questions, come by and I shall do my best to help you. And as before anybody who would like to donate to Doctors without

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There's not much presentable knitting going on here. I've been busy swatching for design submissions and a few other things and ideas. A couple of which I'll hopefully be able to share with you soon. But in the meantime I thought I show you which game I spend a lot of my time playing. It is my favourite game (NOT!).                                 One very messy work desk... I actually took

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... is now up on the p-hop blog. This link will take you straight to the entry for the Cardiff Knit Surgery and this one here takes you to the p-hop home page. I had a lovely day and there will most definitely be a repeat and for more you will have to hop on over to the p-hop page. ;)

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What is a Knit Surgery, you ask? Well. To be totally honest? I don't quite know yet. But I'm more than willing to find out. Let me tell you what I already do know about the Knit Surgery: The first Knit Surgery will take place on Saturday, the 10th of September 2011 in Big Knitters (on Wellfield Road just where it meets Albany Rd, Cardiff) from 11am to around 2pm. It will be a fundraiser for

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These last two weeks I've had a very great urge for some simple knitting without much fuss or without needing to constantly needing to read a pattern. And the handspun I had recently finished was calling to me anyway. So I went trawling through Ravelry for a nice and simple scarf pattern for my rather limited amount of yarn. I had 140g of yarn at roughly DK weight, about 250m by my rather

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... it's summer here. Somehow it started out well this year with some lovely weather in early May but since then it's been pretty horrid. Don't get me wrong - I like the temperatures we're having - totally my comfort zone. I could just do with a little less rain... And it just feels wrong to get out the woolen blankets in August. So. Summer knitting. Only one thing to do. Get yourself some

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I started out calling this piece of knitting a "hug" but during the last week I've started to call it "Rärmel" which is a non-sense word made out of the German "Rücken mit Ärmeln" ("Back with sleeves"). Which is exactly what this is: This is the red WIP (Work In Progress) that kept showing up in the last few blog posts. If there ever was any mystery, it shall now be wiped away - it's a shrug

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I've made myself a little present and bought an online home for my blog. Please update your bookmarks and links to: http:://www.quesselchen.com Apologies to anybody who has tried to come here the last couple of days while I was trying to set up the redirect. While that is really not hard to do once you understand what needs doing, I had to go ask for help (thanks Machelle!) and then play

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Not planned: washing my mobile in the washing machine. SIM survived. Display kind of did (it's a bit funky now). Keypad didn't. Most keys don't work, other do random things. Need a new phone and am begrudging the money it will cost. Stupidity is expensive. Also not planned: because of said phone - missing out on meeting up with the lovely spinners - by the time I got there (Machelle's address

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-17043383638222601352011-07-20T21:10:00.000+01:002011-07-20T21:10:32.896+01:00

I completely forgot to blog on the weekend. But I have a couple of good reasons: Exhibit a: Somebody tell this yarn that it won't get knitted immediately, it has to queue as all good yarns! ;) Finished the yarn I started the week before. And am absolutely loving the result. There's something amazingly satisfactory in spinning your own yarn. I think this hank wants to become a simple scarf,

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On wednesday evening this happend: The tragic death of (yet another) needle. This is the second needle within about 6 weeks that I break. Nothing wrong with the needles, I'm just putting them in silly positions in bags or sit on them. Luckily my local LYS does stock the KnitPicks Harmony tips, so I can replace them relatively easy. But. I can only make opening times on saturdays easily (trust

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I just spotted that a lovely person on Ravelry (fencingknitter, big thanks go out to you!) has spotted a typo in the written out instructions for the Lozenge Socks published in "The Knitter", Issue 26. Apologies to anyone who stumbled on that. The chart is correct, so if you are/were following that, you're set to go. If you are following the written instructions please amend the 7th round of the

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As it has now reached its recipient, I can show you. I actually just had a look on Ravelry. Because I think this has got to be one of the most popular recent patterns out there. Right now, Ravelry lists 17959 projects for the Clapotis pattern. And that is not counting all the patterns that are not on Rav and all the derivative patterns. Two of those projects are mine. Or as is more correct:

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I feel sore just looking at the lot. *sigh* At least there's no furniture involved. And it's not far, not even really across town. And I hope to have a knitterly post for you early next week.

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Yours truly is feeling very much like an idiot. See this: I was so proud. Finally finished knitting my Autumn Arbor Stole. And spend the last evening carefully grafting it together. Or so I thought. Look at the bottom edge of the picture, you can already tell. See this? Fail. Complete and utter grafting fail. Sigh. So. Not. Impressed. With. Myself. From how it looks I must have made a

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-21593948660562287282011-06-12T15:47:00.002+01:002011-06-12T15:47:05.663+01:00

I haven't done a lot of knitting the last week or so - I managed to fall down the stairs (yet again, this is becoming a yearly habit of mine) and sitting (or standing for that matter) was not a comfortable position for a few days. I'm just rather disappointed that I had only one little bruise to show for a whole flight of stairs. I also think that I might have missed my calling as a contortionist

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After a day of playing around with blogger (it's was quite rainy and the knitting mojo is missing a little), I think I have settled on this look. Hope you like it, I do. ;)

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No, no typo. Though I’m not guaranteeing anything for the rest of the post. Apparently my lovely family has decided that a lie-in on a sunday (which also happens to be my birthday) is completely out of the question. ;) So, I finally have some time to blog. And for those that have come here for a while – yes, I’m playing around with the look of things at the moment, I’m sure I’ll settle on

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I've survived! The crochet edge is done. The shawl is blocked and dry. And I'm currently sitting here with it over my shoulders... And this is why the yarn will never be in Jen's shop - I had over 20 ends in about 250g of knitting.... Jen would never knowingly sell such yarn. I tried to take some decent pictures of it but didn't quite succeed. The shawl is a liiiiiittle bit big and my

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Nothing much to report here. I shall spare you an in-depth description of my crochet skills. Let's just say "it ain't pretty". But I'm liking the result: Finished the first "row" of loops and am now on my way back. Nearly at the half-way mark for that one. It's a very good thing though that I never wanted more than two rows of loops. ;) I might actually survive this... See you at the other end

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A while ago Jeni gave me yarn (yes, I'm a very lucky girl). It was a test dye, to see if an idea we had would work. Sadly it wasn't very practical (at least the way we did it - but if you want some, nag her, there might be another way of getting more of this), involving way to many hours of work to make it into the shop at a price that would be acceptable. So, I had a lot (300g+) of very unique

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No, don't worry, I'm not talking insects here. Absolutely staying in the two-legged world. Promise. I even decided against putting up a daddy-long-legs picture. This is about the last of 2010s Christmas presents. :) For the longest time, my father always said "Don't bother knitting socks for me, I won't wear them.". And I kept trying to tell him, that yes, I knew he was a little bit particular

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This is going right back to nearly a year ago. Remember this post? And this one and the next one? Yeah. This is the "cape" (for lack of a better word) that I knitted for my cousin. For some reason it took me until August to finish knitting it (I might have gotten slightly distracted by pretty socks in between). But finish it I did. Only then it spent at least another month lingering around my

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Ahem. I feel slightly sheepish about this. But. In December, in "The Knitter" magazine (issue 26) there is a pattern of mine. And at the time I was too busy to blog. In my defence I was expecting the mag to publish the pattern in issue 27, but that must have been a misunderstanding somewhere along the way. Anyway. Here's one of the two pictures I have. The socks are called "Lozenge Socks" and

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I promised a post for my mums Christmas present yesterday - and here it is. Sadly as of yet gender and name-less. It wasn't forthcoming in that regard while I made it and it now looks as if it will stay "the giraffe" for the rest of its life. Only got itself to blame. ;) I used Fyberspates Nef Sock in saffron. The body (including neck and head) is knit in one piece, with the horns and ears

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Now that everything has reached the intended recipient, I can share. This will be slightly picture heavy and a few knitted presents are missing - one will get its own post tomorrow and a few I forgot to take pictures of. First off - the beast or blanket. For my best friend when she feels rubbish to roll up in. The blanket is/was a combined birthday/Christmas present - otherwise I couldn't

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I had/have a lovely time with my family. This is my view from the sofa - often with some sparrows, Kohl tits and a rather rude and possessive black bird arguing and manoeuvring about the food. Merry (white!!!) Christmas to all who celebrate. And all you others - hope you can enjoy the weather. I shall spend the rest of the holidays finishing my mum's present and laughing at the antics of

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Hi everyone, I've had to set the comment settings to moderated and google-account users only - I've been getting spammed. Eventhough Blogger caught them all, I'm getting tired of deleting the comments, so I'll keep things like this for a while. If you don't have a google-account and would like to comment, please feel free to email me. On other notes, I'm getting ready for another epic travel

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Still alive, still kicking, but haven't been much in a blogging mood the last couple of month. Have been doing a little bit of Christmas knitting and am nearly done with all my Christmas gifts - just need to buy some tea for my best friend (wednesday evening after I have spent a ridiculous amount of money on my car, just saying "brakes") and finish one piece of knitting that involves lots of

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-7226908118985297582010-10-23T11:42:00.000+01:002010-10-23T11:42:34.584+01:00

... I spent the saturday at Fyberspates Open Weekend. It was great. Despite a rather early start. I picked up Marie and Doug at 8am and thouroghly enjoyed their company for the rest of the day. Driving for two hours is so much more fun if there's nice and funny people in the car. We got to Jens a little after 10 (and for once I didn't get lost on the way, though Dougs annoying phone womans help

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Hi guys, I'm insanely busy right now because a couple of things that I thought I still had a couple of weeks (sense the procrastinating theme?) are actually happening this weekend (fun things but still); will tell you after. On top of that the little buggers that are this autumns cold viruses have found me and knocked me out for the last 4 days. Which means that now I'm not only behind on the (

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-48449126091762591372010-10-07T20:48:00.000+01:002010-10-07T20:48:25.197+01:00

... we (we being the knitters in and around Cardiff) finally got to meet those lucky enough to be able to go on the CraftLit/Knitty London, Bath and Wales Tour 2010. We met in a local pub and chatted and laughed and knitted the time away. There might have been some yarn buying/selling... (I love the faces in that picture!) And a certain Heather was very happy to finally have some internet

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Long overdue, sorry, been spending way too much time in the lab. But as the due dates for the babies approach (one on saturday, the other some time next week) I want to get the pictures up. So, to recap. Each mummy to be is getting a pair of Duck feet. And each one baby is having a little Cuddly Buddy Bunny to hold on to in case mum and/or dad are too far away to hold hands: I used the Bunny

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-21419475182431231092010-08-25T19:26:00.000+01:002010-08-25T19:26:11.023+01:00

Ok, this got a bit long. But I too curious to see what peoples’ opinions on this is. If you are just here for the knitting, sorry, skip this post and please come back on the weekend for more baby knitting. I shall tell you two little “stories” (they are true, happened within the last 2-3 month) first as I think the help illustrate my point and also because they have triggered me thinking about

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You have been warned! One of my oldest friends and somebody else I know are pregnant. And we all know what that means. An excuse for baby knitting!!!! :) I have a few more things to show, but for today I will just show you these (not much knitting going on here atm; I need to drag it a bit for blog fodder...): I have been in love with the Duck pattern ever since I first saw it on Knitty and

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-55444683679518790292010-08-15T21:20:00.000+01:002010-08-15T21:20:24.823+01:00

Friday lunchtime after being excited all week, I heard the long awaited “plop” of something heavy dropping on the doormat. And I finally held the first copy of “YarnMaker” in my hands. For the rest of the afternoon, I was happy (well as happy as an upset stomach can let you be). I love that the cover is not “flashy” but instead shows you exactly what this magazine and this issue is about – sheep

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I'm really very, very excited about this: Here's the link to the webpage. The first issue will be in my post box rather soon! I think it is a great idea to have a British (european) Spinning Magazine and can't wait to have it in my sweaty little paws. It also happens to fit very nicely with new purchase of mine, which shall be revealed soon. Also - there's now a Ravelry Group, come and join us

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As you may have noticed, I've been rather absent lately. Sorry about that. I'm very busy at uni and somehow the blog has fallen by the wayside a little. But fear not, the knitting is continuing (if a bit slower) and I'm currently working on a secret design project. I shall try and post here more often but regular posts (ahem, as if there ever were any of that sort) will have to wait until the

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when I plan to travel more than 100 km I will put a world-wide warning out. Because there seems to be a connection between uncontrollable natural events and my travel plans. Case 1. A couple of years ago (or so). The whole of the UK (and most of Europe) was covered in thick fog. Who was scheduled to fly home for Xmas on that day? Yep. Me. I took the Eurostar instead. But we did have to pay for

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-38138644236476699202010-04-11T16:58:00.000+01:002010-04-11T16:58:34.819+01:00

...from knitting, that is. I've been playing with beads and pearls and such: So, now I have two bracelets that are completely different. :) The one in bronze and brown is heavily inspired by an advertising pamphlet, I just used Swarovski pearls instead of semi-precious beads and a different kind and shape of semi-precious beads (these are Rainbow Agate Coins). And different charms (in case

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-42825431529680716752010-03-21T17:27:00.001Z2010-03-21T17:28:44.772Z

Yay. I literally just "finished" the front of my cousins cape: None of the ends are woven in, nor is it blocked as I shall do this all together once the back and the sleeve (yes, there is only one) are done, too. I'm a bit afraid about not having enough yarn, the front took 7 balls. I bought 19 50g balls which leaves me with 5 for the sleeve and the sewing. Which should just be enough. I hope.

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As it turns out there is no magic time loop between the 13th and the 21st of March. Meaning it is not the 3 weeks I thought it would be but rather just slightly more than a week. And, let's face it, there's no way I'm knitting a whole cape in that time, even three weeks would have been a push but nine days? No way. New goal for the Pararavelympics: finish the front of the cape (which might yet

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I hope I spelled that right. So, here's the deal: it's pretty much the same as the Ravelympics only it's running alongside the Paralympics. The whole idea is started and hosted in the LimeGreen Jelly Group over on Ravelry. I didn't participate in the Knitting Olympics because I knew this was coming up and didn't want to ruin my still slightly fragile knitting mojo before hand. Until wednesday

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-18246352617528458692010-03-14T21:52:00.000Z2010-03-14T21:52:08.561Z

Somewhere around here must be a centre for time-warping. I have no idea where the last 3 weeks went (well, ok, I have an inkling, it might involve loads of FISHes and flies, no don't ask, please)... so now, I have to play catch-up once again. Story of my life. ;) As a treat to myself, I participated in Jens Dyeing Workshop yesterday. And it was sooo much fun. Honestly, if you've ever wanted to

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-29327992779539385112010-02-21T18:56:00.001Z2010-02-21T18:57:03.012Z

Squeeee! Look what landed in my inbox on friday afternoon: Yep. Mine. As in my design. The photo is very obviously not by me but a professional photographer, Paul Amato. Thanks to Vogue Knitting to sending me the picture before publication! I'm soooo very happy and proud. The scarf is in the forthcoming Spring/Summer 2010 issue of Vogue Knitting (sold as Designer Knits here in the UK). It is

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Hi everyone, this is a shameless plug for your money. So, you have been warned. Still reading? Great. Thanks. In the wake of the horrible earthquake in Haiti, I was thinking how I could help. Knowing that I wouldn't be any use there and that I also do not have much money to spare, I realised that I had a perfect solution - a knitting pattern all writen up and ready to go and that there was just

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...and at the rate this is spinning up, it might take me about 10 years to finish this. lol I'm attempting my first proper laceweight and boy, that is a lot of work! Sorry for the crappy flash picture, day light is still a sparce commodity.

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-42969800584664572952010-01-30T14:08:00.000Z2010-01-30T14:08:32.030Z

This is the one I'm having at the moment: Which one should I spin up first? I am having a really hard time deciding. I just can't make up my mind. Both are so absolutely lovely... See, all was well until last sunday. Until then only the gorgeous pink batt lived with me. And I knew that as soon as my current project was off the wheel (it's currently drying, will show you soon), I was going to

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Happy New Year, everyone. Yep, and January is nearly over already. I just wish there was more time in a day. My knitting mojo has currently decided to go on holiday - so if you see it sunning itself somewhere - could you please let it know that I miss it? I'm still plotting ideas, but not really knitting. I'm not far off posting a "Missing Knitting Mojo" ad somewhere. Maybe a pair of socks as

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I hope you all have a lovely and wonderfull Christmas! I was trying to find a nice picture of our tree just now but failed, I shall take a pic later when it's lit up again and post that. This Christmas is once again showing me how grateful I am for my family. They are some amazing kind of awesome! Eventhough things aren't going exactly to plan... Getting home to my parents was a bit of a

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-18910010495059495492009-12-08T18:43:00.000Z2009-12-08T18:43:03.788Z

Yes, I know the blog has been rather quiet for a while now, but I've been busy in uni and knitting and something had got to give - hoping to settle into a new routine soonish so that blogging can creep up the to do list again. In the mean time, just to show that I haven't forgotten the knitting bit in my life - I have just had my fist paid for pattern published!!! And am immensely proud. It's

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-23654721021684545672009-11-10T19:19:00.002Z2009-11-10T19:19:36.879Z

Today is just a really good day. Car passed its MOT without (I repeat WITHOUT!!!) anything being the matter. That alone would have made my day. But no, it gets even better. I had just hung up on my insurer (renewing my policy for the car) when the phone rang again. And boy was that a fantastic phone call. Sorry I can't tell you (yet), but I'm soooo excited, I'm bouncing up and down and up and

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-34964978830332016962009-11-08T17:57:00.000Z2009-11-08T17:57:43.330Z

...while knitting. It's my new addiction. Well, no, the knitting addiction is most certainly not new. But the listening to stuff is. very. new. And I'm not talking music either. I'm talking pod-casts. Yes, I know I'm years late to the show but I only recently discovered them. And am currently working my way through all the back episodes of cast on by Brenda Dayne. To most of you I won't be

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-43664139862517412912009-11-02T14:36:00.000Z2009-11-02T14:36:24.906Z

So, after being miserable for quite some time (it always takes me forever to shift a cold), I'm finally starting to feel ok again. Still have a sore throat and my dear cough (good chance of that one hanging around 'till spring, oh joy) but I'm starting to consider that I might belong to the human race after all. ;) I've taken today "off" as a get everything sorted and partly also as a "me" day.

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-84759956461357957652009-10-28T19:19:00.000Z2009-10-28T19:19:25.701Z

... that is as soon as I can shake off that cold that seems rather attached to me at the moment. Needed a little blogging break, but I'm good to go again, so hopefully I'll find the energy to blog on again properly on sunday. That is if anyone is still reading ;). See you all soon!

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-16384728540764521392009-09-04T13:46:00.000+01:002009-09-04T13:46:07.954+01:00

Sometimes you just can't help it. You just have to do it. So I did. After agonising about it since knowing about it, I have now treated myself to: Two Annie Modesit workshops on sunday at the chapel. So excited!!! Hoping to learn a lot and and meet lovely people. I'm now jumping up and down and grinning like a mad woman (ok, arguable I'm not exactly sane, but never mind). The promised sock

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-58541150431962253522009-08-31T11:08:00.000+01:002009-08-31T11:08:58.346+01:00

It has been brought to my attention (thanks, Machelle!) that the settings here only permitted comments from Google Account holders. Not sure why I chose that setting as it doesn't make sense at all. It's fixed now and anyone should be able to comment now. Sorry about that! Truely was unaware of it...

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A while back I had a slightly crazy idea. But I liked it. So I asked Elly what she thought about it. And she said "go for it!". So I did.And this is the result:The idea was to create some bunting for Jeni. Jen is a very good friend of mine and had just moved Fyberspates into a large industrial unit - and judging from the pictures I had seen on her blog that space needed some cheering up.To cut a

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I love it to bits!!!! It's soooo soft. And so beautiful. I'm completely chuffed with myself for having dared such a big project and completed it.I used Cascade Alpaca Eco in charcoal. Not quite 7 skeins of it! Which means that I again have bought way too much. Let's just say I can knit a whole other girasole with the "left-overs". ;)I used 6mm needles and blocked the blanket to roughly 1.7m

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-91489586825497458652009-08-02T20:53:00.006+01:002009-08-02T21:06:52.910+01:00

Which is what my girasole is currently doing.Blocking everything. In a desperate search for enough space to block the blanket sized version, I finally decided on my room. The only really sensible space for blocking something this huge would be the kitchen floor, but my housemates and Dandy (the dog) are coming back today. And I do not want Dandy to chew on small pins and he usually sleeps in the

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-48575628009644504252009-07-27T18:50:00.005+01:002009-07-27T19:10:30.787+01:00

Finished this yarn on the weekend - this is the only yarn I finished during the Tour de Fleece and you know what? The green and about 1/4 of the pinks were spun before. Clearly the TdF was not a success for me.Anyway, the yarn was finally dry today and as I need to distract myself (still feeling rubbish and holding on to that slightly raised temp, grumble) I took some pics and played with the

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-4947064221698160862009-07-26T13:21:00.008+01:002009-07-26T13:52:10.245+01:00

So much time has passed since my last post, I don't even know where to start. I think I shall work my way backwards through time to make it easier on me.Last week then. One word: rubbish. Had some kind of bug (no, not Swine Flu! there's other stuff out there as well. lol) for the second half and spent the first half of the week helping to move our lab. Which reminds me - some sort of a small

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-20268586352768461602009-06-10T20:48:00.004+01:002009-06-10T21:15:26.235+01:00

Ahem. meant to announce this a lot earlier.Due to the immense participation in my raffle the random number generator took a long time to come up with the winner. Which just so happens to be Elly.;)Right, I was hoping to entice people to comment more on my blog and leave feedback (good or bad), but that obviously didn't work as planned. roflAnyway. Elly has been told and I promise to get the yarn

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-22363782454687527442009-05-29T08:30:00.005+01:002009-05-29T08:30:03.034+01:00

Right, so as I said, I had reasons for not blogging.Well the first one:All nice and shiny and brand-new. Yep, I'm the very proud owner of a MacBook now. And I'm seriously starting to like it. Still not quite over my old Powerbook, but she (yes, it's a she and does have a name) now lives in uni until the end...This one here hasn't told me its name (or gender) yet, but these things take time. ;)So,

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-27719334595185501632009-05-28T18:07:00.004+01:002009-07-06T21:49:52.079+01:00

Hi everyone,sorry it's been to quiet here the last week or so - will explain myself tomorrow. And there might also be a little something to celebrate the day. But for now - a few people have noted that there are a couple of mistakes with the Stained Glass Window Sock Pattern.Please, if you find any more (I so hope not! lol), let me know so that I can fix the pattern, post the errata for everyone

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-27554351712235995502009-05-17T20:23:00.008+01:002009-05-17T22:08:30.118+01:00

I just got back from the most wonderful weekend in a long time!Jeni and I went to Cwmoernant Farm (just outside of Carmarthen) for a Basket Weaving Course. The atmosphere was absolutely calm and relaxed and all the people there were lovely.We got there a little late on Saturday morning (my directions were a little bit faulty, ahem) and immediately joined into the basket weaving - there were 7 of

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Well, things are certainly a lot better than the last entry (well, really second last entry).My computer is still having serious issues (which is really not good, considering I'm supposed to write my thesis on it) - some keys aren't working, the airport card is gone, the ethernet card has it's moments, the screen goes blank every know and then and the two most worrying things are that my

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-72299860332690005442009-05-15T23:01:00.001+01:002009-05-15T23:03:59.208+01:00

Right, here's the (slightly whiny) post I meant to post two weeks ago.When I wrote "trying to do too many things at once" in my profile – this is what I mean - it got me again. Here's a list:1) I have been seriously neglecting my flies. As in really bad. As in I am in trouble big time. And it's all my fault. *sigh*2) I also wanted to get a lot of uni stuff done this week. What did I do? Nada.

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You know where I wrote "trying to do too many things at once" in my profile?Well guess what. It got me again. Here's a list:1) I have been seriously neglecting my flies. As in really bad. As in I am in trouble big time. And it's all my fault. /*sigh*2) I also wanted to get a lot of uni stuff done this week. What did I do? Nada. Excatly nada.3) I am moving house in less than 48 hours.

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-73673158086137187562009-04-19T14:58:00.009+01:002009-04-19T15:16:22.664+01:00

Here's the promised knitting-related post. ;)It's a bit of a sad post though - the Sock-it-to-me Swap3 is over. It was sooo much fun!!! I had two awesome partners!Barb, you are a scary stalker and were spot on with your parcels! I have already told you how much I adore your socks but need to put it here as well: those socks are so special to me. Everytime I need a bit of comfort and spoiling I

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-76379470596449881892009-04-19T14:45:00.004+01:002009-04-19T15:17:17.879+01:00

Or is this title just a bit.... hm, not sure - suggestive, hilarious or what?Here's the translation/explanation for you non-German people:"Der Spiegel" is a big weekly newsmagazine (I have a subscribtion).The title reads: "Judas Traitor in the name of God?"And the bit underneath reads: " We wait for Obama"???rofl.To be fair - it's quite clear those are two different stories (the second one is an

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-59689179897379945012009-04-14T18:11:00.009+01:002009-04-14T18:55:04.785+01:00

Yes, I have finally made time for the wheel again! And: it is going really well. For not having spun in a while I'm extremely chuffed - this is the finest and most even yarn I have ever produced....This is about a third of what I have of this fibre, I'm planning to make this a 2-ply and hopefully still have something in the lace weight category or at least very light baby or fingering weight.The

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-14950346181205792272009-04-07T17:29:00.004+01:002009-04-07T21:31:13.795+01:00

You remember a while back when I raved about the Unicorn Club? Hm. Yes, you might.Well I got my first skein a week or so ago.And don't get me wrong - the yarn is wonderfully soft and fluffy. The colour is gorgeous.But. But. But. Aren't unicorns supposed to be friendly and docile creatures? Maybe a bit shy, but still - friendly. Yeah. I thought so, too.Looks innocent enough? Actually very

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-72472966734043789542009-03-29T18:20:00.007+01:002009-03-29T18:46:43.856+01:00

Yes, you guessed it I finally managed to finish the last of of last years Christmas presents. ;) And in my excitement I forgot to take a picture of both socks together. rofl. But the second sock does exist and both have been gifted to their recipient yesterday - all nicely wrapped in Christmas paper and such. Was worth the laugh...Anyway - here's the first one:And yes, that is the sock that is in

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-27780270234160007942009-02-04T19:39:00.006Z2009-02-04T19:59:47.333Z

After a long and tiring day I got home to a lovely surprise today: Barb's (my swap partner in the Sock it to me swap 3) parcel had arrived safe and sound in pretty much record time despite the horrible weather we're apparently having here (hey, they are going by British standards - fairly amusing what can happen with about an inch or two of snow here!).And Barb most certainly spoiled me rotten!

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-67624366005722995132009-01-23T21:16:00.000Z2009-01-23T21:16:00.579Z

I have to confess something.I need to reduce my yarn stash a little. It's not absolutely humungous but it's not small either. So I have made the resolution to knit from stash unless a present urgently requires a certain type of yarn I don't have.But. Me being me, I found a loop hole. You see, fibre that has yet to be spun up, doesn't count as yarn stash, now does it? See, I knew you would

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-66586294962054218402009-01-20T12:34:00.001Z2009-01-20T12:34:01.122Z

To (nearly) finish the catch-up of Christmas knitting. And still in January! I'm good. ;)As I did knit quite a few presents for others this year (ok, am still at it, to be correct, ahem.), I needed to treat myself in between with a few quick knits.Somehow, not that long before Christmas two hanks of the Fyberspates Scrumptious DK had made their way home with me - can't really quite explain how

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-9903900301245789232009-01-18T19:19:00.007Z2009-01-18T19:38:49.484Z

...or knitting backwards.You remember me mentioning my little Christmas disaster socks? The ones I had to rip back and start again? Because they wouldn't go over anybody's heel (ok, a 5-year-old might have had a chance)?These right here:Well, the knitting has progressed further.To this:And now this:Yeah, right. It's all frogged and wound up. For the second time.The. Sock. Wouldn't. Go. Over.

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Found this on Elly's blog - and guess what, I'm not the hard ass she is. Nowhere near. Remind me not to get in a fight with her, would you please. lolThough I would have thought that I wouldn't last that long. But maybe the velociraptor needs to chew between its bites... I could survive for 44 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor Knitting and spinning content in the next post,

Quesselchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11046463566280980579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33976099.post-29240013484939162812009-01-09T14:53:00.007Z2009-01-09T15:16:35.364Z

You like hand-painted yarns? Sock yarn? A little bit of luxury? Riddles? Winning Yarn? Quests? Chivalry? Fyberspates? The Natural Dye Studio?Well, if you haven't yet - go and check out what Jeni and Amanda have come up with:This sock club just sounds too good to be true to me. And the fun and games have already kicked-off in the Unicorn Ravelry Group. The first teaser quest is up! And if you

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As promised. Only - the Christmas knitting isn't quite over for me yet. There's a couple of sock pairs that aren't done yet and my aunt didn't like the style of hat I made her, so...But to put things in order.Finished Christmas gifts first. Details can be found in my Ravelry projects, too lazy right now to repeat everything.I made Thujas for my cousin. Well started them and then finished them on

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Hope everybody had a good Christmas (if you're celebrating it) and is having a great new year so far. A little bit late, I know. But still.I, for some unknown reason (probably called laziness. aehm), have not managed to blog all of December. Bad me. I hang my head in shame.But with the new year come the new year resolutions and one of them is to blog at least once a week. After all, I enjoy

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Gna. I really hate my chaos sometimes.And to come back to the title - they take so long because we spend so much of our time doing unneccessary things. And in this particular case today, I cannot blame anybody but myself. Which makes it a whole lot worse. Trust me.Let me explain:I needed (well still need to, really) to re-(re-re-re-re)-read a paper. I know I have about a gazillion paper copies of

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If the day starts with finding a spider in the shower (while still being half asleep), you kind of know it’s not going to be a great day. Or at least I do. No, I’m not a big fan of spiders, just for your information. And yes, that is a very British understatement.Let me tell you what then happened. I leave the house (forgetting to take my lunch – yeah for cafeteria food today! Or not.) and get in

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Gna. All my knitted things have little mistakes in them as I cannot concentrate well enough to avoid the occasional oops. After all, I knit to relax and enjoy myself and not to stress out about what I'm doing.But I have just reached new hights in this category, even for me. Have a look:Can you spot the mistake?Well, of course you can. The knitter of these socks (who shall remain unnamed, aehm)

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Well, my elefante got a pair of ears that are a cross of the ears of an African Elephant and bat wings. Here's the proof - unattachted:And this is how my elefante looks fully assembled.Yes it's a lot of pictures, but I think he came out rather cute. At this moment he's wrapped up in green tissue paper and sealed in a box ready to go to the post office and make his way to southern Germany to his

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...posts that are busy with catching up.The culprit for the long silence? I still blame my central park hoodie (which will not have a hood by the way). It's nearly all knitted up - only the collar is missing and I want to have it all sewn together before I knit that last bit and then I need to do the button holes (crocheted on, I'll state my opinion on crochet later) and actually buy some buttons

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Well, how do I put this? The Central Park Hoodie has taken over any of my free time...Knitting is all done - except for the collar. Yeah, you read right. Collar it is, I don't like hoods. I haven't quite figured out what do do for the kind of collar that I'd like. I have hunted far and wide and will propably have to do some short row shaping. Oh dear. I haven't quite gotten short row shaping yet.

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While I was waiting for my bus to Heathrow yesterday, I saw this.No comment needed, really.As far as I can tell they only played with the english version and left the welsh alone.Got to my parents last night with a little delay which was good - my parents were stuck in a traffic jam coming to the airport. Sometimes things work out.A proper post will follow soon, am too busy being spoiled rotten

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...especially if it is the long awaited Wollmeise. Yes, I did a brave and stupid thing. As a Wollmeise virgin, I signed up for the sockclub lottery. And actually got in. And then proceeded to pay. So now I'm a proud member of the Wollmeise Sockclub. And I've just gotten my first parcel. Squeeeeeeeee!I'll be sharing the yarn part with vampy (hi there!) but the goodies are all mine. Harharharr.

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Just need to get this of my chest.Life sucks. Big time. Life really, really sucks.Why? Because I found out yesterday that a friend I grew up with (we have known each other since we were 2) ended his life.He lived across from my parents, we played together as little ones - chasing us (on bikes, rollerskates on foot), playing hide and seek and whatever game we came up with. We went to the same

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Thought people might enjoy these pictures.Not much to say about it really, but we had a lot of fun! Had to hurry to take them though, as this was for fun only and there were still a lot of paying public about and my "models" (thanks guys!) had already been in armour too long and were getting rather dehydrated.So that's my excuse for the "yarn" being in the wrong knights hands! ;)Oh, there's one

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Sheldon Nr. 1 has been making friends with...Sheldon Nr. 2.Or Shelby. According to my housemates. But I'll leave naming them to the recipients.Both were knitted from Schachemayr nomotta micro. Sheldon Nr. 1 completely on 2.75mm needles and for Nr. 2 I actually did as recommended and made the body with 2.5mm needles. And then over-stuffed it - so now is just about fits into its shell. I'm hoping

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Yep. I have actually 2 (spelled out: two!) finished projects! Woohoo!The first would be Sheldon (or as he is called here Sheldon Nr. 1 or "the green Sheldon). You know, the one for the according to the last post yet to be born baby of a good friend?Well, turns out, I lied to you. When I wrote that post said baby had already entered this world. Only 10 days early. Can they ever keep to schedule?

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Nothing much new here.I have finally gotten around to taking pictures of my finished Masonic Lodge Socks. They have been done for quite a while but somehow life got in the way...I have linked to the pattern in a previous post and it is also on Ravelry if any one is curious. I messed up quite bad - mixed up the right and left foot when reading the pattern and then had to fudge the cable. But that

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... I apparently brought some of those back as well.Namely a nasty little virus which seems to think that my lungs are made for it. At least the nurse I saw after a week of hard coughing said she couldn't hear anything in my lungs and it is a virus.A week on from that visit and I'm still coughing but slowly getting better. I nearly have my voice back, am not suddenly running a slight temperature

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