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The pitter patter of tiny little feet

Well, actually we can hope that the little person I made these wont make much pitter patter for a while longer as he is only six weeks old.

I wanted to make something personal and useful when my friend A had her baby and remembered that I had seen a pattern for something that looked like easy baby booties. My only problem was that it was in English - a knitting language I’m really not familiar with. Not that I let that stop me! Oh no - I boldly knittet like I have never knitted before; and it was a long, long way into bootie A until it dawned on me that this was going to be far too big for a newborn baby and that the pattern looked seriously wierd.

So I frogged it. Then I recalculated.

And then it turned out that these booties are a breeze! I knitted them up in an evening whilest watching tv, and the little recipient loved them - especially the fact that they are cool, black and manly!

The pattern is from Bernat.com. It is a free pattern, but you have to sign ut to access it.

My colourful life

A while back a co-worker gave me a bag full of yarn. She had used it to knit a sweater that turned out way too big, so she frogged it, rolled up the yarn and put it away. When I started to knit she remembered this stash and kindly gave it to me.

The first thing about this yarn is that I have no idea why she ever, ever thought it would be a good idea to make a sweater out of it - The colour combinations are slightly mad and also the yarn has different thickness and quality to it that’s quite hard to overlook.

I used some of it to knit arm warmers and a nice winter hat, but in the end this yarn was too strangely coloured for me and I found no use for it. Also the yarn was all schrunchy since it had been frogged which made it difficult to knit nicely.

Then I got sick and I was very bored. And when the ladies at Wisteria Lane stopped being able to draw my entire attention (somewhere around the middle of season two) I needed something to keep me company while watching episode after episode of the made up lives of some housewives in a made up town.

I remembered that I have always wanted a Doctor Who scarf; stripy, broad and way too long. The original scarf is in very muted 70s colours, but I had after all a bag full of unused yarn and time on my hands. So I started to knit. And knit.

Now the scarf is done! I put everything together last night, and even if I Iook less like Tom Baker and more like a deranged home ec teacher I’m pretty pleased with the result. Pictures will be posted as soon as I have washed and dried it.

Easy knits

My current knitting project

I simply love easy knits.

In parts because I’m really not an advanced knitter. I have no concept of knitting with multiple colours and am awed and baffled when people knit complicated patterns. I keep wondering what they do with those extra threads!

Another reason why I love easy knits is because I can knit while watching tv. Not everything on that box is captivating and I feel more patient for the program I’m watching if I have something to do.

Yesterday I reached behind the sofa and picked up the boyfriend’s scarf. It’s been behind there snugly in a plastic bag all summer (it’s been HOT here, and knitting has been the furthest from my mind!). I had a couple of episodes of So You Think You Can Dance - America on backlog and it was time to see them before the grand finale this week. And since there’s a lot of blabla and comercials on this show it’s perfect as a knitting companion.

The reason why I had a couple of episodes on backlog is because no matter how much I love that show I’m beginning to seriously tire of Mary Murphy. That woman is a screamer, and I’m happy I’m not one of her fellow judges. That scream is piercing, annoying and on the fast track to ruin one of my favourite shows on tv! But yesterday I had a cunning plan. And that cunning plan was the mute button on my super fancy remote control. And I have to say: So You Think You Can Dance minus horrible screeching makes for both brilliant entertainment and a super knitting companion!

The Mario Scarf

First off - I’m a huge Mario fan. My little brother and me fought over whos’s turn is was to play ever since the very first Mario game back in the days of yore. I get all goey inside from the sight of an original nintendo controller and I own a pair of 1-up mushroom earrings.

And sometimes you find someone who just makes you scream with delight! Yes, I did scream when I found The Mario Scarf blog. This girl has knitting and geek-skills far surpassing my own, and her Mario scarf is The Next Big Thing.

Get over there and read her last entry about how far she’s come on that scarf!

To felt or not to felt

They look nice here, but that's just because I tucked them under for the picture!

This is what they really looked like: Limp, shapeless and fit for a gigant!

I liked them anyways. A combination of the sheer accomplishment and the colour made me want to felt them - to see if that would make them shrink to Elisabeth-size. I had of course never feltet anything in my life, and again I turned to a book for help (I had also ordered “Easy Felting” [or something along those lines]) and did exactly what the author said and threw in a red towel to boot the process.