Latvian mittens

What happened? Well, quite a bit, actually.
For a start there was my birthday on the 2.2., in February I had a range of guests over for various reasons, I also finally wound my 700g of latvian wool into balls by hand instead of getting a yarn winder, started knitting an adorable pair of mittens from the book latvian mittens, which is simply amazing. It features such a variety of charts and instructions that you are bound to mix and match your favourite mitten pattern. In other news, I rediscovered my sewing machine once again and am sewing my way towards a full-sized quilt in autumnal colours (I know, wrong season, but by the time I am done it might well be autumn in 5 years time....). The fabric is from a jelly roll I bought on etsy a good while ago. :P

Spinning.... yeah, sometimes... not as much as usual though.

New sock yarns are in!

Here are two of my latest sock yarns from my recent dyeing day, 'Fairytale' and 'Storm warning'. More are being added every day. :)

Carding and dyeing

After my move to the UK my lovely boyfriend got me a drum carder and I have been carding ever since... Mixing all kinds of different colours, textures and fibres is just such instant gratification.
On the left is a simple batt carded from hand dyed Merino wool and Mulberry silk.

Today has also been a big dyeing day - with lots of new sock yarns soon ready to be listed! I'll add some pictures soon, but it is looking pretty good, considering that I haven't done any dyeing in many months.... :D

Grapefruits and limes....

...back in the swing of things and happily listing more items in my little shop!
My latest yarn is called 'grapefruits and limes' with more of lilley's beautiful beads.

Roll on 2010!

Hello again! Hope you all had a great Christmas time and are getting ready for the new year! As I am still in Switzerland and without my spinning wheel, there clearly hasn't been much crafting going on. I found my watercolour paints again though and have been playing around with them a bit...

Well, the new year already seems to be busy and all planned out, but eventually I shall be back with more yarns than ever. Also, I may be selling some hand carded batts in my etsy shop for a very limited time - more on that later. :)

Enjoy the last few hours of 2009! It was a good year. :D

Graffiti

A beautiful graffiti I saw the other day in Wuppertal in Germany. Of course I also checked out the local yarn shop... Lang, Rowan and Noro yarns were all there, nicely lined up. :)

Having fun in Germany

My blog absence has a valid reason and good excuse (or so I think): I am currently in Germany! I spent the last two weeks in a little town in the East of Germany for business reasons. On a little trip I stumbled over this old police car, which can now just be booked for parties and such, an interesting end to a police car...

And look at this cool-looking bar of chocolate (with peanuts), I had to get a few of them, and they're actually not all that bad. But I really did mainly buy them for their oh so basic graphic design. ;)