New Patterns

If you still follow my blog you know by now that I also blog over here every Monday. Today there are two new patterns available for you, if you feel so inclined.

I seem to feel quite Susie Homemaker at the moment. Here one of my latest baking attempts: Marzipan Muffins.

Still knitting, kind of

Indeed. I am. Not even secretly since all my projects are dutifully entered on the project page on Ravelry.

I finished something on Saturday and, oh my, it is NOT knitting but crochet. A 'Granny Stripe Blanket' for Egg, who had picked the colours and keeps telling me "I just loooove the colours!".



I am also blogging. Here. Every week on Monday about some or other knitting related stuff. This time I did a 'how to' on casting on with beads.

On a totally unrelated note: I had some cabbage leftover and am improvising the veggie part of our dinner tonight. Cabbage with Caraway - a dish we usually only get at Christmas Dinner at a friend's house. I have really no idea how it is actually cooked, but so far it looks and tastes pretty good...

Picking Strawberries

Whoever thought getting four of the 4 litre baskets was a good idea? Oh. Yeah. That would be me. The weather was fantastic and so we filled them, with small, very red and ripe fruit.


Egg had a lot of fun but of course more Strawberries ended up in her mouth than in her basket...


The Quebec Strawberries of this year were ready late and even the reddest ones are still a bit tart. I don't think we mind.

Shopgirl

Well, yes, that would be me. The girl (ahem, rather: woman) working in a yarn store. Making money by selling lovely yarn, advising people with their knitting...and, most of it: Having time for selfish knitting! Over the last six months I have been knitting for myself more than in six years time. It's fantastic. I'd forgotten how that goes.

This year alone I have knit EIGHT sweaters etc. for myself (not all of them a success, but that's another story) and several other smaller things. Then there are some gifts and store samples...I can't believe I've been that productive and didn't have to give most of it away. Also, I've been choosing fun projects, meaning they were quite a digression from what I would have knit three years ago. FUN!

That's why my designing life got put on hold - more or less. I haven't given up designing, but I think I needed a real break. I won't deny it's hard to go back, but there are some ideas that need attending to!

Egg has been going to daycare since last August, she's loving it and I'm loving that. It's easier to have a life on your own when you know your kid is happy, too.

Life is good. (Apart from the trouble with my teeth. But, honestly, WHO wants to know about that?)

Two of my favourite knits:

Drops Design No 108-33 "Jacket in Lin"

Carol Feller's "Adrift" (Ravelry link) in Noro Sekku

October!

So, this is what happens when you don't pay attention. Time just trickles away, one day at a time, and whoosh! it's the middle of October. In the meantime, Egg turned two, I'm working away at Espace Tricot, and I crocheted a sweater (ravelry link) or rather, a shrug thingie that I finished yesterday and yet have to photograph.


We had some glorious fall weather, and my Mom was visiting for two weeks. During that time we went apple picking. Egg just loves it. She would go again any day.


Egg is still not happy when I drop her off at daycare, but I know that she's fine about three minutes after I leave. The payback time of my getting opportunity to work and some hours off mothering is night time. Going to bed usually was an easy thing. Since Egg started daycare it is a nightmare. She screams almost every night in protest. And three days ago she climbed out of her crib for the first time and hasn't stopped. She's also gotten quite good at it - after only five or six tries. I think I'm off to IKEA to get a bed rail to convert her crib into a bed. Somehow this leaves me uneasy, but she's getting out anyways, so I guess it doesn't really make a difference.