söndag 11 mars 2012

Uusi kehruukirja tulossa

Katsokaa, jos ette jo ole ihailleet tätä: Kehrääjän käsikirja. Olen hirvittävän onnellinen tästä kirjasta, vaikka en tietenkään vielä ole sitä nähnyt. Olen tehnyt ennakkotilauksen.

New book on handspinning to be published in Finnish in April! Makes me very very happy! You can find the author as "Tuulia" on Ravelry.

Ny bok om spinning på finska i april! Åh vad glad jag är! Jag beundrar Tuulia och hon beundrar mig :) Här är hennes hemsida: Tuulia och Louhittaren Luola med några väldigt bra stickmönster.

lördag 10 mars 2012

Waiting for my Minispinner

Waiting for my Hansen Minispinner. It's at the customs in Helsinki. Wish I lived in Helsinki.

No. Never. I don't wish I lived in Helsinki. I wish the customs would be in Vasa.

fredag 9 mars 2012

The herder

Blanket!


I've been knitting this blanket since January last year. Domino knitting is a wonderful way to just - knit. No thinking. No planning. Just relaxing. I like this blanket. It's my new lap throw for cold days. Yarn: Drops Fabel sock yarn. Size: about 150x150 cm.

I crocheted a border and finished with what I think is called crab stitch. Backward single crochet:


I always have a domino knitting going. Here's the newly started:

Lot's of small skeins Sarah gave me. Most are hand dyed by Sarah and Jon Dunn Ballam of Easyknits. This will be a baby blanket.

torsdag 8 mars 2012

Twitter

Because I couldn't figure out what had happened to Ravelry, I joined Twitter. And there I found a lot of fibery people :) And found out what had happened to Ravelry.