FO (Finished Objects)

YES! I have finished the fluffy muffler AND dads wrist warmers! So now I'm all out of ongoing knitting projects, oh no! Although I have a couple ideas to start on next :P

It's really warm I can tell you! at least indoors :P

looks almost stylish worn like this too :) but doesn't exactly keep your neck warm.. :)

I just baked a bread too, very much an experiment.. :) I used sourdough and then I just added flour, yeast, water, salt, and syrup in what felt like appropriate quantities ;) I am a bit curious how it will taste, I think it has cooled enough sort of now :)

NEWSFLASH! The bread was absolutely fantastic! I impressed myself! And when it comes to baking that is definitely not an easy thing to do! :) I need to bake bread like this more often.. sourdough is lovely to use too :)

Knitting

I have been knitting, almost every day! :) I managed to finish one wrist warmer for dad before Christmas, but it was still way too big although the thumb was much better :) so I decided to knit from the beginning, again, and smaller :) I have almost finished those, just the last bit of rib on the thumbs left to knit :) I'll see dad on Thursday so I'm going to get them ready until then :)

another UFO is the fluffy muffler.. not much left but it has to be done.. :) but tomorrow I'll be sitting in a train almost 3h so I'll have lots of time to knit :) might even finish it, that would be nice! :)
I am so much looking forward to starting on something new! I want to knit something for myself for once and then I want to knit my first sweater.. for my old Snoopy :P

Forgot to write that the camo sweat suit he's wearing was made by mom, by my "orders" :) but I don't remember how old I was then..

 I did finish one UFO today, FO now ;) the flower socks that I first finished already in November! but now they are all done and waiting to get to their owner tomorrow :)

2011

A new year, new possibilities :) actually I believe there's new possibilities every second.. :)
Today has been a tired day, but still I've got quite a lot done :) I've almost finished dads wrist warmers (Christmas gift, version 3 was finally acceptable to me) and I started to re-knit the foot on the flower socks I otherwise had finished in November :P and I got the leaking tube for the dishwasher unscrewed, but then I haven't yet found the sealing tape so it's just waiting now.. I also went for a walk this morning as I felt like I was just falling asleep on the couch all the time.. :) almost an hour and now I know how to walk to another bus stop :D if I ever need to get off or on there instead.. it's always good to know these things in advance :) especially if I have to use that stop in the dark.. I don't think there were any street lights on the way, most of it was like a broad walkway through the woods :) very beautiful though :)
Other than that I've just mostly read today, and tried to stay awake.. I really hope I'm not getting sick again, my stomach has been "rumbling" some today :P
So far though, I like this year ;)

Happy New Year!

Does your Mother know where you are? Or do You know where your kids are? :P I don't know why I think that's funny but I do :D Doesn't seem like I'll be growing up anytime soon I guess :)
I have been thinking quite a lot lately though..
I felt one night when I was lying in bed a very strong sadness at the thought of maybe being alone for a long time, maybe not finding the right one in time to have kids and so on.. I really really want to have kids one day, my own.. I don't even think I'd want to adopt.. I'm not sure.. I'll take that question if it ever arises. But I do want a big family.. :) a huge one! with dogs and cats too :)
I've been thinking more than that, this whole autumn has been a long meditation. And I'm not finished yet. I still haven't been able to decide on what I want to do when I grow up/the rest of my life ;) yes, I know, I don't have to do the same thing the rest of my life, but at least for a couple of years!
I have so many ideas and alternatives.. I looove numbers, it's a bit crazy but I do :) you can do so much with numbers, finding meanings, creating meanings and so on.. I just don't know exactly how I could implement this love.. statistics? how and where? economics? accountancy? Usually need to have some sort of training to get a job in any of those anyway..
Then there's the whole creative field.. :) textiles in almost every imaginable way, some fields of art, photography, crafts.. And then there's the food, mostly baking, bit. Which in my world belongs to the creative field :) I seldom follow a recipe to the letter, and especially when making cakes I quite often make them completely from an idea I've got :) I get inspiration easily, getting the things done is a little bit harder.. :P
That's the major interests.. well, let's add interior decorating and architecture as I am very interested in them too. If I've forgotten anything I'll let you know :P I love greenery and gardens and flowers and so on too, but I actually don't think that love is enough for a job, except if it is a part of a larger concept.. :) like having a restaurant in a big old house with a huge garden :P and of course an art&craft shop in one of the old buildings ;) I've read way too many country life (interior) magazines ;)

With these thoughts in my head I'm ready to enter a new year and try to be open to whatever it brings me! :)
Happy New Year once again!

More crafting ;)

A Christmas tree ornament I made late one night before going to bed.. :) just had to try it at least once.. :) it's just 13 stripes held together by string, easy! :)
Yesterday I had a day almost free from crafting, I just read instead.. :) "Hand i hand" (Hand in hand, duh) by Irmelin Sandman-Lillius and Heddi Böckman. About their childhood.. nicely written as it was sometimes the same happening told from both sisters different viewpoints :) I've read books by Irmelin Sandman-Lillius before and I love them :) and I loved this one too, it was more real of course but it was the same homely feeling.. a little bit like reading Moomin-books.. it feels so homely to me :) actually the two sisters knew Tove Jansson, Moomins creator :) and they're all Swedish-speaking Finns, just like me, and grew up more or less at the same time as my parents, and in the same city too :) so it's not such a wonder really if their writings feel homely :)

Crafting with company

might look like this:

I was going to continue on the flower-ball I had started in the morning and Tufs (the bigger one) decided she wanted to help! well, sleep would be a better word.. ;) Trollis was already lying on that white-gray cloth by the window but when big sister came and flopped down on all my papers she wanted to do that too! Yey! ;) Luckily I didn't need anything that was under the cats nor very much space on the table.. and as the next pic will show you I managed to finish two small flower-balls :)

Perfect size for my Christmas tree :) I did some creative work with a marker, just to see how it would look :) I like the one on the left more, it has just got an orange border.. the red one might be better with just the middle piece red, I'll try that on a later one :P This is a really fun crafting, as it's mostly just fold, fold, cut, cut, glue, glue.. as I've said before it takes time, but it turns out really nice too :) and can of course be varied in a thousand different ways.. how about inserting small led-lamps in the middle of each flower.. :) I tried taking a pic with one flower-ball on each cat but Trollis woke up when I placed one on her so I had to change plans and use Tufs as base ;)

Looks nice, doesn't it? :)
I'm still debating with myself whether to do a round ball out of paper stripes today or some other day.. :) There's an instruction in one of my Christmas craft books how to do it, but they use just rectangular strips and I think they should be tapering.. so I need to find out if my idea looks better :) and also if it's possible to overlap them in a certain way, don't know how to describe my thoughts there.. ah well, you'll see when I've made one :)

Ugh..

My stomach still isn't exactly up to normal.. and now Mom has got it too.. I just hope it won't decide to take a second round! I want to eat normal, good food :) For some reason I have a higher craving for salt again so I've been planning tomorrows lunch really long :P I'm going to make chicken with blue cheese and some creamy sauce and with french fries.. :) it's something you can get at quite a lot of places at least here and I just want to have that now.. I dreamed of it already when I had just had dinner :P now it's just one night and breakfast to get through first ;)
hopefully a night better than last.. took me ages to get to sleep! Today I've stayed up longer so at least that should shorten the toss-and-turn period a bit I hope.. and yesterday I had dinner quite late so I think my stomach was working hard when I went to bed..