Eunny's Endpaper Mitts #2

Well, I've started knitting Eunny's Endpaper Mitts with really nice yarn... Rowan 4ply soft #387 and Rowan 4ply soft #376. [I think the pictures on the Rowan site give the wrong impression of both yarns. #387 is not half as dark in reality as it is in the picture. The colour is very cooled, and actually reminds me of winter in a northern country, like Norway or Sweden.. or a misy morning in Scotland. It's almost an icy blue. #376 is much whiter in reality and in the picture. The picture looks like the collor of vanilla ice cream, but it is much closer to the colour of flour.. Anyway, I've made a start and I'm enjoying it.. can't wait to be done really :)
I also, as you can see, made a collage: top left/bottom right, shows the birthday gift I made, there are also some pictures of my nalbinding project that ended up being called a kippah!! There is also a pictures of a bigpipe player.. I ran into him on the way to the yarn store, and I really had a hard time not bursting out in hight step and dance :) The picture in the very middle shows the yarn for our new projects...
-Gracie-

A new challenge!

Well, as I'm the only dog-owning knitting person on this blog (Pippa and Gracie are both cat-owners), I have to defend my faith by posting a picture of my dog here, who is completely insane, by the way.

So this is my dog (well, mainly his nose). He is a Drentsche Patrijshond (better known in English as Dutch Patridge Dog), almost two years old, and his name is Willem. He loves sniffing and licking my balls of yarn when I'm knitting, and what he even loves more is steal the yarn when you're not looking (or when you are looking). So in case anyone thought only cats did that sort of thing: nope. Dogs, or at least mine, love it just as much as their feline colleagues do. Yup, my dog chases pretty much every single thing that moves, and every single thing that doesn't. (His motto seems to be: If it doesn't move, I will move it myself!)

Anyway, today all of us Yarn Owl Bloggers went to our favourite yarn shop again to get new stuff for new projects. I bought circular needles, a set of double-pointed needles (all bamboo), and two more balls of deep red alpaca yarn to knit a nice hat to go with my scarf! Gracie and Pippa also bought new stuff, and Gracie took pictures of everything, including a few finished things! Yay!

Molly

Eunny's Endpaper Mitts #1

After a long struggle with my self designed January Scarf, which "sadly" ended on the UFO list, I came to the conclusion that it's important to challenge myself, if I want to become a better knitter. So, this morning I made a start with Eunny's Endpaper Mitts, which are the most adorable fingerless mitts I ever beheld. Last night I got some help from friendly folk over at the Knitty-boards, who explained some technicalities [Thank you, thank you], and I feel I can do it. It may take me forever to finish this project, but I'm sure it wont end up on the UFO pile.
We as blog have also joined some knitting rings.. Euroknit.. Academics Knit.. KnittingKitty... Purling Puppy... and .. The Stranded Colorwork Challenge. Yay!
Because I don't have any new knitting pictures, I thought I'd end this entry with a picture of my cat, who isn't the least bit interested in knitting, or yarn.. she is obessed with chewing knitting needles though...

- Gracie -

Knitty Secret Pal

Shame shame, what a shame.. I've joined the Knitty-boards, but can't join in the fun until I have a 100 posts on my name, which basically means, I'll have to wait another round.. at least to the end of the current one which end in April.. :( How sad is that?!
To make us, because Pippa and Molly are in the same fix, feel a little better about this sadness, we decided to fill out the funny questionnaire anyway.. And that was great fun indeed... it took us until far past mid-night, and we're still modifying the answers. It might be fun to post them on our blog :) We actually enjoyed filling out the questionnaire so much that we Molly is making us another questionnaire.. just for fun. We're all looking forward to it very much!!
We are looking forward to join in the next Knitty SP, but there's one thing we three are a bit concerned about, and that is the minimum of 50 dollars... Though it's spread over three months, we students have a tight budget, and 50 dollars would be our maximum rather than our minimum., especially since we live overseas, so we have shipping costs to think of as well, on the other hand you get something in return, so it's as if we'd be yarn-shopping for ourselves, but then send the goods somewhere around the globe :) Ow.. I really can't wait until the next Knitty SP!
- Gracie -

Happy New Year

The Yarn Owl wishes you
a happy and healthy new year
with lots of love, knitting and peace!

Gracie, Pippa and Molly