Archive for November, 2007
November 21, 2007 at 7:18 pm · Filed under eco, links, craft
Get some tips about greening your home at Rethink What’s Possible. (via native kee)
Treehugger’s 2007 Gift Guide will give you lots of green gift ideas to put under the Christmas tree.
If you happen to be gifted with sewing and crafting skills you will find great projects at Sew Mama Sew who are putting togehter a full 30-day tutorial guide.
Please, do not miss the fantastic kid craft site Kids Craft Weekly. I am totally engulfed in the new Advent issue. Must. Make. Advent. Activity. Calendar! (via bigandlittle)
November 17, 2007 at 12:00 am · Filed under knitting
It feels like I won a competition. Look what the lovely Elemmaciltur sent me and the kids today! It is a mini version of Jason Floods hat pattern Koolhaas. Read the full story about this hat over at his blog.
Thank you!
That camera makes funny bleep noises.
Mama put a hat on my head. Indoors?
Mama is crazy. This thing is getting OFF.
Look my hand can move with superspeed!
I get it. It is game. Hats indoors… Silly mama!
Catch me if you can! I can pull this hat off faster than you can say shutter speed. 
November 12, 2007 at 12:15 pm · Filed under knitting
Look, the Blue Striped Mohair Sweater is finally finished!
Yarn: Fonty Ombelle Mohair in turquoise and light blue
Needles: 8mm (US 11)
Size: 5-6 year old
It lay abandoned for days at end because of the fiddly sewing. If I ever knit another mohair sweater it will be done totally in the round with absolutely NO seams. The seams are actually not pretty, but in the end we really wanted to see it finished, especially Tyra since she designed it and choose the yarn. We went to our LYS Nysta together and had a great time patting different yarns and talking about texture and colours, running to the door with balls of yarn to see how colours change slightly when you view them in natural daylight. It left me with a warm fuzzy feeling seeing Tyra totally engaged in yarn. Her directions to me was pretty clear. She was able to tell me exactly what she expected from the sweater - big and soft, stripes as wide as her thumb, wide arms and a high collar.
I looked quite a bit at two similar sweater patterns from Drops Design while planning Tyras sweater and then heavily modified them to suit Tyras instructions. It was a great learning experience. The importance of calculation cannot be stressed enough and is something I really need to practise. One immensely great thing about knitting is that you always get another chance if you mess it up. A second, a third or a tenth chance if you should need it. All you need is a big helping of patience.
* The post title is from Sufjan Stevens song “The dress looks nice on you”
November 7, 2007 at 3:23 pm · Filed under photography, family
1. pumpa, 2. talgoxe, 3. leaves, 4. churchshadow, 5. larder, 6. bergsgatan, 7. grannahouses, 8. edit, 9. laholm (Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.)
Me and the kids are back from a visit at my mothers house. I brought three knitting projects with me, hoping for some time alone with my yarn curled up in the sofa, but I had kids or cats in my lap as soon as I sat down. Not that I mind.
Click on the photo links and read a little more over at Flickr if you are interested.
