Friends Forever!

Spring is my favourite time of year - and cutting branches of unknown species, taking them in and waiting for them to bud and bloom is a joy! This time the result was a great surprise - wonderful little boquets of tiny acid yellowgreen flowers

I guess I will go on and on about me turning 40 on April 3rd all through 2009... because I continuously find good reasons and perfect excuses to celebrate a bit more ;o) Last Friday the festivity was in teh form of a great Girls Night Out at a coffee shop/tapas place. I had encouraged my friends to bring knitting/chrochet projects, and a few did - but I was the only one actually knitting that night. And, despite the wine, I didn´t have to rip a single stitch the next day! Not bad... I have recieved so many wonderful gifts from friends and family, and on my way home that night I had my bicycle basket packed with a big bunch of pink tulips (shown here), a red and black Pashmnina shawl, 4 delicious big bags of tea, a very pretty silver necklace with a silver lace heart containing pearls (I am wearing it in the photos of my last entry), an inspiring re-design book (shown below) and a very welcome gift voucher for my favourite LYS. Last, but absolutely not least; I was wearing my new, beautiful ring (also shown below). Thank you sooooo much every single one of you - for the great birthday gifts, of course, but just as much for the gift of your friendship

XXX

Green Sleeves aka Green Gracious

Here she is, at last - my Green Sleeves! I want to acknowledge Glampyre of Glampyre Knits for the original Back to Scool U-neck vest-pattern, which was my inspiration for this cardigan. Thank you - your Fitted Knits are great :o) My choice of yarn was a fingering weight alpaca, so I had to convert all the stitch numbers. I also chose a raglan decrease instead of joined sleeves, and my neckline is quite narrow compare to the original. I think my altered design has a hint of 1940 or something to it and I love the result! I go green! ;o) ...and thanks to Superman for the photos and for a wonderful weekend ;o)

Easter Resymé

The photos in this resymé were all taken this morning - indoors. The returning daylight is bliss - even though it is far from enough to get sharp shots without a camera stand. But the colours came out pretty true, so I´ll live with the blur :-))

This is how far I got on the second Zebra Jaywalker... I just could not figure out how to get started on the zig zag, even though I had a freshly printed copy of the pattern right in front of me. Sooner or later I WILL finish it though - the first one fits snuggly and nice but will look twice as good being part of a couple ;o) Of course I had taken precautions when packing for my Easter break - so I cast on and knitted a few inches on the baby blue retro cardie. During Easter I did a decent milage of cross country and spent an even more decent amount of time sitting in the snow whith the sun baking above -knitting away! Yesterday, on the last day of the Easter break, I finally pulled myself together and ripped the green cardie down to the joining of sleeves/body. The flappy necline/bust portion ruined an otherwise great design, so I had no choice, really. I successfully picked the stitches back up and will hopefully finish it before Friday as I plan to wear it Friday night. I also plan to have a few photos taken - I think the green one will deserve a bit of web-fame when it is done :o)