January

I am at home, spending some days of vacation I have left from last year.
It is winter, with some snow and temperature below 0. I needed this, after last year's spring-like winter.

During daytime I am playing with the kids, we go out, I cook a bit, and I enjoy it.
In the evenings (after the small one is sleeping, if we succeed to put him to bed) I am knitting and enjoy the lights of the Christmas-tree (we still have it, and it will stay this week).

I have knit a scarf for myself. It is finished, but I do not have a photo of it while wearing it.

Then I made wristlets for Klári (finished, but no photo).
Then mittens for Poppy (he had 2 pairs, but the cuff was too short, so they kept falling).

And after knitting so much with acrylic I craved the touch of merino, and when Klári asked for a scarf I took some remaining of handdyed by Buci and bamboo knitting needles, and now I am knitting and knitting and it feels oh so good.

We went for a walk in the woods on Sunday.

I know now why I tend to be bored by this kind of winter after Christmas: I miss the light. I love winter, I love gray, but I miss the sparkling lights.

We enjoyed the walk though, we pulled the kids on the sleigh and they were running a bit in the snow.
We will go to the countryside tomorrow. We hope for a bit more snow and temperatures below freezing, so we will go outside and enjoy nature.
I keep planning my yarn-related adventures for this year
I saw a pullover. Crocheted, but I just fell in love. So much, that I already made a swatch for it.

I will have one.
B. wants socks. He will have a pair for his size 45 feet. Speaking of socks: a good friend of ours still haven't got nothing handmade by me. So he will have his first pair of my handknitted socks for his birthday (in October).
And I have a huge quantity of acrylic yarns, I got them from a colleague. I think a part of them will become a crochet blanket. The yarns are thinner, but I will make a smaller blanket for summertime, for Klári. She would love it, I know.
And now back to my coffee and knitting needles in the morning calmness (Poppy came here and he is sleeping by my side now)...

Beginning of October

About a week ago the walnut-trees started to change color. At first they switched to light green, but now they turned to yellow.

Yesterday it was warm and sunny, the morning promised a good day,

so we went to the country-house for some garden-cooking.

The children had fun in the garden, I had some time to check the signs of autumn.

We took some photos of Poppyseed wearing his new hat (with shorts).

I like it.

It is my design, for the love of broken seed stitch. I like the earflaps, the pompom - and the gorgeous color of it. Thy green yarn was hand-dyed by my friend Bucilla. It is the leftover of my Eve-gloves.

The natural-color yarn is Drops Baby Merino, all is knitted on 2.5 mm needles. It was a quick project, finished just in time for the gray and cold days.
Today it is raining.

Must stashbust

The last period we rearranged our home and I realized that I must optimize my stash. In order to achieve this goal I should reduce the yarn-amount I have. So I made some plans which yarns I should use up real quickly. (which of course might not happen the way I planned, and I might buy more yarn.)
I have this yarn, I bought it a while ago, for a pullover for myself:

then I did not use it and now I cannot decide whether to knit the Milkweed with it, or to use another yarn (I planned to use Merino extra fine, but after a discussion with Maris I became quite skeptical viewing the MEF).
There was a sock-yarn in great color

(it is a beautiful deep claret red, but it was impossible to photograph it), I bought quite a quantity of it, and now I know it will become a striped pullover (with black), and not a few pairs of socks.
I have 600 grams of this,

I have no plans for it, but probably I will knit something for the kids for next winter - but I must use it up, because it needs a huge space, being so fluffy.
And then there are some By Buci yarns.
I should knit with them not because they need space, but because it is so great to work with them.

I saw once a shawl on a blog. It said: cast on 100 sts, and knit until your yarn allows you. I would go for the autumn-colors with this project, but I do not know. Each one is gorgeous.
This By Buci yarn will become a pair of gloves, I know.

Probably a Laris Design-glove, but I cannot decide which one. Probably the Eve with no beads in it, but I do not know for sure. Until now I have knitted 5 pairs of her gloves and I love how the patterns are written and how elegant the finished glove will be. 
And having all these plans now I started to knit (but ripped it already) a fairy-top for the little lady. But I am at least knitting it using stash-yarn...