3 years of happiness

 

Unbelievable, how time is passing....

May

After a cold, freezing April finally spring is coming. Almost summer.
We started to go to the country-house on week-ends. There, below that church on the photo.
It is great to be there.

We are blooming.

Bees are working on the flowers

There is a calm we cannot find in the city.
I knit some in April.
First this lace-paneled sock.
Nothing fancy, 2.5 mm needle, magic loop, Vendita Sockenwolle.

I worked these two-at-a-time, toe-up.
And I finished my Dither. I hoped to make better photos of it today, but it is raining, cannot go outside...

Dry technical data: 2.5 mm needles, magic loop, pink Vendita Sockenwolle and some black sockyarn.
Not so dry data: I fell in love with the pattern. And I had gone wild concerning the colors.
I wanted to knit TAAT, toe-up, but this was going only until I got to the first stranded row. That was the point where I separated the pieces and knitted one at a time. Of course, I used another structure than the one specified in the pattern.

Put in a Fish Lips Kiss.
This was not a quick project, since my work is sucking the most energy out of me I cannot knit so muck instead of sleeping. And Klárika is not helping with this, either.
Now I am knitting the next stranded pair of socks, my true love, but I did not have the yarn for it until now. I hope this will go faster, as the Dither made me practice the two-handed stranded knitting. I guess I will knit this completely according to the pattern.
Instead a photo of the WIP-socks here it is a springy warm picture of yesterday.

Lacy socks

I finished a new pair of socks.

It felt good knitting them.
I wrote up the recipe for those interested:
Use any toe-up pattern and include my instructions.
CO 30 sts on two needles, with Judy’s magic cast-on (I knit two at a time, with magic loop, on circulars).
Increase on both ends of both needles, until you have 62 sts, on the two needles.
When you have the final number of sts, start the lace panel on the instep: K2, knit the sts of the lace-panel, knit all sts remained. On the other sock when you knit the instep knit until the last 15 sts, work the lace-panel, knit 2.

Follow this way.
Make the heel whenever you have to, it does not affect the lace-pattern.
You can add increases on the back side if needed.
When you have the desired length of patterning, start knitting the K1/P1 ribbing. BO using an elastic BO.
And you are done.

February

February begun with illness. In fact, January ended with illness, and not an easy one. Probably it came from the kindergarten, because the first to get sick was Klárika. Then I was second and Husband the last. They are both all new now, it is I who cannot get rid of the cough. It probably was pneumonia- as the RX showed it today, but it is mostly cured now.
Another issue I have is the rush on my chin, due to medication, probably, but it itches badly. And it is not the most pleasant thing to see on one's face...
I hope, I will not have another illness like this... 
Not only because it is hard to live like that, but it is really unproductive.
I recycled some sweaters. For most part of my stay at home that was the major accomplishment, which is not too much, I must admit.
In the weekend I was able to knit a bit, so I finished the scarf I begun to knit a while ago. I must weave in the ends, and sew some buttons, but that is all.

And I have another WIP, I started to crochet Dirk. It is about halfway done, but there is a lot of work left. Small crochet pieces are not the easiest part to make - not for me.

Slowly I will finish it. I have time, as the baby who will own it will be born only in late April.
I hope from now on, as I feel better I will get beck to my normal knitting-crocheting life.
First with the tail of Dirk.

January

We have a gray January. There is over zero, no snow, instead it is cloudy.
Inside there are signs of sping.
Hyacints started to bloom

the Hippeastrum is preparing to open the flowers

(this is the red one, but the orange is also having buds).
I am knitting socks,. I still cannot pass over the shock we had at the beginning of December, and sock-knitting makes good to the soul.
I finished Husband's size 45.

I tried some texture, but it did not show up with the yarn, so I abandoned the original idea and continued plain atfer a few repeats of the stitch-pattern.
Nothing fancy, but I like the colors.

They are a bit big to me...

Sewing sadness

I am preparing for sewing for the last few weeks. To learn to sew. Whatever.
Today I begun, by drawing a pattern on paper. But I did not get to the point of cutting the fabric.
I just sit and watch the paper pieces and I have no idea what to do with them.
I got to the conclusion, that pants are not the ideal project to start with.
I am a bit sad, but I do not want to give up. I WILL NOT GIvE UP. No.
I might be able to sew a skirt like this.
Now back to knitting, and then we will see...

Minimal

I have no idea what happened to me, I used to knit complicated stuff and now I feel I am stuck with stockinette and garter stitch.

But at least the colors are beautiful...