Sunday, May 30, 2010

Diligent firtrees and lazy pinetrees

20 days after sowing have passed and there are already 5 firtrees germinated:

Unfortunately pinetrees are lazy. None have appeared yet.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Almost a shawl

Yesterday I felt big desire to felt a shawl. I have just finished my felting classes, so I think I know about that everything. Beginning goes ok:

The problem was that I was lack of wool, so the middle felt up somehow by merino is very poor however I still hoped that will be enough:

The process good also for loosing weight:


I didn't make the final picture... Maybe it will be a summer blancet for a child. The lesson I learnt:
1. BIG amount of wool is needed.
2. Merino is not good with cheese-cloth.
My next step is to felt a poncho. It mustnot fail!

Friday, May 21, 2010

Lazy skirt

I took this piece of tricot and made a super simpla skirt of it just by making a crocheted bottom edge and a tie for waist.



Actually the waist does not look perfect. So it must be hidden under the top.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Let's grow trees!

I am participating in a project "Oxygen". The project means that everybody can get free seeds (firtrees and pinetrees), sow them in the box and grow new trees for planting them in the forest.
My daughter Karline enjoyed sowing. There will be firtrees in one side and pinetrees in the other:

Well the important job is completed, let's wait what will happen next.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

My unlucky cardigan

Before beginning the work I spent much time to think about it - I had several a little bit crazy ideas about how to make it and it's details. Maybe too much. I remember my going to yarn shop and choosing colours. I remember how happy I was when carrying the full packet of yarns.

I decided to knit it diagonally (front sides beginning from bottom corner, back side beginning from buttom middle point and increasing/ decreasing at edges to make the shape needed). I chose this knitting pattern. Unfortunately I didn't prefigure what it will look like finally. Maybe it would look better if I knitted just stockinette or garter stich which are too boring for me but normal. But the result was that the cardigan doesn't fit well - it slouchs and makes hips too big. I had bad suspicion about that during the process but I hoped that it will be ok somehow at the end. When the cardigan was finished I saw that it doesn't look good but I tried to close my eyes to that. But when I saw other's cardigans which looked perfect I could not spoof myself anymore. I wanted to delete that project from my life, I wanted to forget it. I have even deleted the pictures of me wearing it (made when I had just finished the project). It has become my home cardigan now. And I am not proud of it at all. Here is the picture how it looks now:



I should learn from my own mistakes and not to think too much about the project before. Thinking too much and too long means that there are enough time for several weird, crazy and not verified ideas to come and when I try to combine those ideas (oh, sometimes it's enough with only one to make the things go wrong) in one project the result is also weird. But actually I must confess that I am just knitting another one "long time planned and full of silly ideas" cardigan. Will I ever knit just a normal cardigan which just fits?