green week day 3

Boy oh boy! My forehead is as wrinkled as the paper I'm
using for the origami and yet I still didn't manage to fold
it. The one I started last night was wrong. I didn't follow
the instruction step by step, so I had it wrong in my
memory *bad, bad,..* Now (I think) I get it, but it feels
like my fingers are to thick LOL Oh well, time to relax
a bit and try it from scratch again. I'm not giving up :)
My jacket is another story..



The jacket I've started to knit a while ago, isn't finished
yet. Remember I've opened up the old pattern? I've redone
the back part. The left front side is almost finished - I kept
miscounting, so it took me ages already *sigh* And now I
can't continue at the moment because of my toes.



Huch?? What do my toes have to do with the jacket you ask?
It's the wool. I can't have warm at the moment at any part
of my body or my toes will start to itch. So, I'm always a bit
freezing at the moment (luckily not getting cold though).
Can't wear my beloved woolen clothes or socks anymore :(

adventurous

Remember I told you I wanted to knit myself a
complete outfit using the gray wool, but that
my idea was still intangible? Well, I've been
browsing to look for some patterns and finally
I've bought these booklets. They are full of
lovely patterns!


Berroco Booklet #281 and Norah Gaughan Vol. 3

But I know myself quite well, that I'm not discipline
to follow a pattern thoroughly. So I start with
another wool - it's the same quality as the gray
one, but in olive. I'm a coward, I know :P

I've chosen a sweater model: Crotona. I love
the shape, but like I thought, I start to change
the pattern as soon as I start to knit.



First I wanted to make this pattern only on the
border, but then I couldn't decide the wide of the
border. I kept on knitting, opening and knitting
again *sigh* Finally I thought I should make it
thoroughly. I actually really love the texture,
when I look at it from near. But as I tried it in
front of a mirror with a little distance, I started
to think differently - aaarghhh!!! So, I continued
to change the pattern and now I don't know either
I like it or not :(

I really don't know, if I will ever manage to finish
it *sigh* It would be too pity, if I don't, as I have
some really nice buffalo horn buttons. Normally I
don't like horn as material, but they are so beautiful,
I felt in love with them immediately.



Oh well, that's the result when a beginner wants to
knit like a master :P Maybe I'll open the whole piece
again and start from the beginning. Do you think,
I've learned from the past then? ;)

infected

Knitting is so highly infectious ;)

another wednesday

I'm enjoying knitting the last days. I knitted the
whole evening. No time for Etsy or surfing - which
an unusual habit ^_^ I'm on some larger project.
I want to knit a sweater for my boy and a whole
outfit for myself. I really hope, that I'll finish them
this time - that's the reason why I knitted till 3am
the last days. I have to use the energy as long
as I'm excited about it ;)

The outfit for myself is not really tangible at the
moment, so I started with knitting some patterns
with the yarn I want to use to see the effect.



Then I started to knit the first idea that came first.
This is a wrist warmer I've knitted without any
instruction. So I hope I still remember, how I did
it to make the pair of it ;) The color is a color I've
never worn before (oh, except once - but it was
a shirt my mom actually bought for my sister),
but as I saw the wool, I really love it and I think,
it suits the gray wool very well.



At this end I've tried to crochet a kind-of scallop
pattern (again my free-style ;)), but too bad it's
curling too, so that it's rather invisible.



I've knitted the whole evening, that I didn't even
realize, it was snowing outside. So, I was quite
surprise to see the new snow this morning.



I love this kind of winter (not looking forward
to shovel the snow next week, if it kept on snowing
like this, though)! It's the winter I used to during
my study time in the Black Forest.

Another goal this morning: to finish painting the
wall yellow in my son's room.

knitting

Last week I've helped to sell cards for UNICEF
as every year. My selling partner was a lady,
who loves to knit. She brought yarn to knit socks.
Watching her knitting made me wanna knit too.

I remember the lovely hats, ilikelemons has
shown on her Flickr gallery a while ago. So I
went to her blog and took her pattern to make
my own. I never finished to knit anything that
fast before - I'm so motivated ^_^


No button yet..

Yesterday I went to look for a button. Actually
I had something out of wood with asymmetrical
form in mind (I think, I've once made a bag for
my niece with such button), but I couldn't find
anything like that in town.

In the first shop I found this gorgeous MoP button,
but it's a bit too big. They don't have it smaller in
the color I want.



In the second shop I bought these leather buttons
(now I only need to find the needle in my chaos to
sew them onto the hat :P).



And of course I couldn't come out of the shop
without these..



.. bad, bad me *sigh*