Dear everybody...

... I'm here, I'm doing lots of things, but can't seem to get my photos from the camera, on the laptop, online etc...

So will show you an old photo:

Rhubarb 2012! This is what it looks like this year also. I love that clear pink among the grey and brown shades!

Dyeing

I have been dying!

This is about 1.2 kilos Falkland top. I have blue Merino and very soft longwool in my stash, so now I have plenty to spin either as it is, or to blend on a hackle or combs. The "olive" green is Kool Aid, the others different acid dyes.

Beautiful Stockholm

Since my son moved to Stockholm I have come to like that town a lot. I went there last week to see my granddaughter for the first time. I'm sorry the world we live in is of a kind where you don't want to show your family and friends in your blog. She's a rosebud :)

It was sunny and chilly, a perfect weekend for walking. On Sunday we went to see an exhibition at the photo museum, Fotografiska. I have longed to see Henri Cartier-Bresson's photos for decades, and now I have seen quite many of them. And I would like to see more. The view from the excellent restaurant at the museum gives you Stockholm around Riddarfjärden on a plate.

Walking along Riddarfjärden:

Easter decorations for sale at Mariatorget:

Sugar at the bottom after a several kilometer walk (yes, I'm trying to be ironical). I call this "Hemska trappan" - "Awful stairs":

Views from the ferry Viking Grace when I arrived early Saturday morning:

There was still ice in the archipelagos of Stockholm and Turku.

For my granddaughter part 2

This is what I knitted from the yarn I spun in January. I love the "Old Shell" lace patterns of Shetland. It's designed for colored lace knitting, and works very well with the handpainted look of my yarn. The socks are called "Train Socks". I have written about them here. In the mittens I also used a yellow commercial yarn.

A little girl has the right to be cute for a while :)

Fiber club "Mountain": Machu Picchu

I had a package when I came home from a short trip to Stockholm:

Merino-Cashmere from Friday Studios. I couldn't resist, I started spinning at once. This lovely fiber calls for a lovely spindle. I chose one of my light apple wood spindles (I have two in different weights) from Spindlewood.

Frida was thinking of the green slopes of Machu Picchu when she dyed this top. She added blue skies and bright colors from the Incan textile culture.