Colorful

Before I had my daughter my relationship with colors was really strict. My palette had colors like green, dark blue, naturals (cream, white, beige, brown), but I was afraid of pink, purple, yellow or any other vivid color. Since then a lot has changed. For example I really want to knit a colorful striped pullover, and a few days ago I wrote about that terracotta yarn which will be a pullover. For me. One day.
For the princess I am knitting colorful stuff regularly, for the last time a shawl.

Its story begun in Spetember 2012, when Bucika dyed a roving for me, on which I started the spinning.
A big part of it became a usable yarn, but not for the project I imagined (I wanted a hat, but the yarn seemed too thin). So, for quite a while it stood in my handspun yarn box, waiting for the right project. That is how this shawl was born.
Initially I wanted some lacy edging, but the whole stuff  was like a sunset,

so I skipped this, and made a simple crescent shawl in garter stitch.

I love its colors.

In the yarn there are only few portions where the two plies are the same color, but in the knitted piece it seems like a uni-color thing. (oh, and the yarn looks completely different than I would have guessed from the roving)

Klárika loves it. It is true, the shawl-season is over, but there will be autumns-winters in the future. And it will cheer up our days.

Finding my pace

It seems that we will go back to normal sooner than I imagined. Poppyseed had slept practically all night, he woke up at 5:13, when I usually wake up myself. He did this at his almost two moths age what his sister never did until the age of 2 years, or more (still there are nights when she wakes up *). Then he fell asleep again and he is sleeping at this time. (Klári never fell back asleep when there was light in the morning).
There is no child like this. I hope he will keep this good sleeping habit.
I should start to deal with my diastasis recti. The last days I read a lot about it, and I found out, that there are some exercises that are forbidden (crunches, sit-ups, etc), which could strain organs outside the abdominal wall. But there are several exercises which are recommended even after a C-section. The doctor allowed me also to get on the stationary bike. But this will be possible only after we finish the adult-puzzle we have in the house (an Ikea sofa in pieces, and next week the bed for the kids will arrive, that one also in pieces).
I casted-on a shawl. Probably for Klári, but she told me yesterday that she does not like shawls, anyhow this is an issue we will discuss when I will have the finished item. I will knit it as big as the yarn allows it, if she does not like it I will take it.

I do not want to complicate it, I think garter stitch is ideal for handspun yarns, I might knit a discrete lace on the edge, though.
It seems that I will be able to comply many plans I have.
Our new life will be good.

* at 2 months she woke up 7-8 times a night, every night, and she kept it like this until she was 8 months, and then until the age of 2 years she woke up 3-4 times a night

Colors of fall

We had a great time here, finally we might become a normal society.
I watched TV and followed the news on Internet much more than in the last 2 years.
And I was knitting and spinning.
Now I have two pairs of socks on needles, far from finishing them, but I have a new yarn.
The fiber is 50% merino, 50% silk. I had some troubles with it, I suppose due to the silk. But I love the result.
The roving was handdyed by my friend, Bucilla (of course).

It was pure autumn.
I made two singles, just by spinning until I got to the half of the roving, and then spinning the other half. It was almost perfect, one of the singles being just about 2 meters longer than the other.
And then the plying. I think plying is the best part in spinning.

This is when the yarn is finished. It is a pleasure to watch how the colors are embracing each other.

The result of these days is 110 grams/425 meters of fingering weight yarn.

It has greens and browns,

but also grays and yellows

- cold and warm colors in a great balance. 
(the light is just awful here, it is foggy and dark and gray...)

Hat season

With the cooling weather hat season begun.
My head does not change its size (I hope so, anyway), but I had to check if it is very urgent to knit new ones for Klárika.
It is not, as the crochet penguin

the hat knit in Bucilla's handspun

(my design)

and the one in my own handspun still fits her.

(Grumpus hat)

But her hands grew a lot, so she needs new mittens...