Little red in the city

I love cute books about crafting. And I love clever knitting books which are able to teach something and not only have pretty pics of yarn in it. Yesterday arrived a new favourite!

Little red in the city by Ysolda Teague




Ysoldas pattern are always very clear and detailed and everything is explained so well that really everyone can learn something from her.

 When I´ve seen that she was going to publish a book about how to knit the perfect sweater/cardigan with detailed information about yarn choice, sizing etc. I HAD to pre-order it. Maybe not all the cardigan in the book are totally my style but they are all masterpieces in their construction and for me it is just a joy to read the patterns and learn how she made this and that. Also I think that her idea of showing each sweater on a supersize model and herself is really brilliant and brave. It is such a clever way to show that it is all about the little details like short rows, darts and other little tricks that make the big difference between a sweater that fits and a sloppy unloved thing noone loves to wear.

 Amanda Jarvis is a great model and looks really cute in knitwear. I love Angostura, Cria and Chikadee on her very much and think that the Lauriel cardigan looks better on her because it´s a bit longer than Ysoldas.

Wie im Himmel/ As it is in Heaven

One of my favourite films these days.

        

I get goose pimples on my arm.....so beautiful! The whole film is so intense. A real gem.


Sorry, but I have issus with Blogger again and I´m not able to write a comment (on my own blog!).

You are so right Leila. Just when everything seemed to be good now. But finally he reached the goal of his life and died happy. But the poor Lena has really bad luck with her boyfriends.
The only other film when the dying of the main charater was soooo unfair (in my opinion) is in "City of Angels" when Meg Ryan gets killed when driving home by bike .... OMG

These days of summer

The last days have been "real" summer days here. Sunny and hot.

And these are the last weeks of school here. The kids have lot of fun in school and in the public swimming pool in the afternoons.

Our 13 year old son spends a week in Great britain with school. It the first time he left home alone for 8 day trip in a foreign country. I think I was more nervous than he :) But I´m happy he has the chance to practice english and to see new and interesting places.

There is not very much knitting happpening here the last days as it is just to warm to knit for me. But yesterday I did a bit of sewing and I plan to sew a beach bag for our summer holiday soon.

Do you also have issus with Blogger? My surface for blogging is different as usual. It is the old one and pictures are not shown on posts (while writing the post) as it was before the new stuff came. I think I didn´t change anything.


I´m off trying to get some housework done before it gets really warm here. I wish you all a nice day!

Soe Tolloy

My beautiful and very talented cousin. She has her first CD out.








One of my favourites







She is great isn´t she? What do you think?

Colourful food today

Today I was cooking lentil soup after Tessa Kiros cookbook. It looks great BEFORE the passata and water is added don´t you thing so?

Ok it doesn´t look so pretty after it is cooked but it tastes good and is easy to make. And I think there still will be some leftover for tonight or tomorrow.

Hi again. recently I didn´t really blog very much. I often think "oh I could blog this" BUT...I forget to make pictures and when I´m back at the laptop I´ve long forgotten what I wanted to chat about on the blog. maybe I should start to blog over the cell phone ;)

Recently I found out that I´m able to upload picture from my cell phone directly to facebook. Which I think is really cool. But I don´t do this very often. And I know that most people already know about this feature, but for me who uses the phone mostly as a telephone and sometimes SMS this is something cool and new.

Ok back to the crafty stuff. I´ve started some socks again and frogged some others. The striped Noros had so ugly colour combinations and the heel turned out to be pink. I just don´t loved how they started to look and so i frogged them. Also the little stripy socks for Felix. I think I know know that toe up just isn´t my thing. I prefer from cuff to toe and with DPN and althought people keep telling me that it is easier with circulars I stay with my DPN. I don´t think that knitting with DPN is difficult at all, maybe because I´ve learned it this way and am used to it.

I´ve started some new socks...just because I like to have some unfinished socks around ;) I only knit some stitches here and then while the PC is loading (ok while I play SIMS3 and there something is loading).

Pattern : Kai-Mei by Cookie A.
Yarn: Lana Grossa Meilenweit Holiday Stretch in green
Needles: 2mm Knit Picks harmony DPN




I´ve finished the Astrid scarf this weekend but only have crappy pictures until now.
The knitting was interesting. the bobbles took some time but were easy. the Body of the scarf was a fast and nice knit too. It took me some time because I had other things to do inbetween, but I think this scarf could be done in one weekend. My yarn is a bit heavy so this scarf goes to the gift box. It will be a nice gift next winter I think.

Pattern: Astrid by Joji
Yarn: Drops Garnstudio Nepal (2 skeins light greey/2 skeins jeansblue)
Needles: 5.5mm



I wish you a nice day. Have fun and make something pretty :)

A relaxing rainy weekend

... full of crochet (I´ve made a pair of Pippy slippers for David and one for Felix), playing SIMS 3 on the laptop (while dear husband had his Sunday full of motorsports in tv), and today a nice and relaxing day with the family in the SPA.

We´ve ended the day with some home made pizza and looking forward to a nice and quiet evening infront of the tv or with a book. Live is so great sometimes!




Pizza picture and recipe comes from here.