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Yay! it finally arrived! The new book by my favourite knit-blogger Jared Flood of b r o o k l y n t w e e d. I was super thrilled to find out that he had published a book, with his own original patterns and his own pictures! But at first I had trouble finding a place that would sell it to me in Denmark.
Made in Brooklyn - by Jared Flood
The book “Made in Brooklyn” just arrived the other day, after only 2 weeks of waiting. Classic Elite Yarns do not ship out books to Europe as far as I could see, but luckily the book was also available on E-bay. I want to start knitting almost every pattern in the book 
All of the pictures in the book are as beautiful as you would expect from Jared Flood. When I manage to reproduce something from the book I’ll post pictures. Until then visit Jared Floods knitblog b r o o k l y n t w e e d – and enjoy the pictures from the book there.
I had a fun knitting get-together at my dorm this wee Had about 10 girls knitting af laughing over the and brownies, One of them being Rikke aka Powerkitty. Once I find my camera again, I’ll post pictures from the event. I really enjoyed that there were so many girls, who wanted to join us, and knit along. The plan is to meet up every other week. But I don’t know if I’ll be able to, UNI is quite demanding these days!
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I’ve been working on these babies since March 
But I’m not big on summer knitting. You can find the “pattern” here.
This monday the GAHK knittingclub will begin once again, and so will my knitting - I can’t wait!
Filed under: Stuff, Uncategorized | Tags: cake, darth wader, marzipan, new years, party
With my camera being in New York, with that sweet man of mine, my pictures from New Years have are little late By now people have posted pictures and I can show them to you all. There is especially one thing I am very proud of and have to show you.
The cake I made! It is an ordinary danish “Kransekage” made from marzipan and sugar with a pretty frosting! The pictures are a bit blurry 
This is me, the cake and lots of champagne! There were over 130 people invited to my dorm for New Years
Even though my boyfriend was away for new years (and still am ) I still managed to “score” a little – Me and Darth Wader made such a pretty couple.
And last but not least. Rasmus had (despite the fact that he wasn’t in Denmark) invited 7 English guys to come celebrate I had the pleasure of entertaining the lot
I hope you all had as wonderful a new years eve as I did!
I hope you all had a wonderful christmas!
Here is just a little bit of complete cuteness to help you de-christmas ;) This has to be one of the cutest websites ever! It is a site dedicated to Cute things falling asleep
I simply Cant count, so in casting on for these socks I used markers. I know it is silly, but I still managed to fuck it up the first time round. Second time round I used markers and had Rasmus re-count it the stitches for me (pour guy).
The cuff and the top of the foot has some light cabling. It is very easy to memorise and gives a nice effect.
I Used double yarn to make the socks extra thick and nice.
And here is the final result. They have been done for quite sometime, but I was waiting for a sunny day to get at good picture of them – but there seriously hasn’t been any days with sun for the whole of December!
The pattern, New Years day sock by Dipsy-doodle, is very nice at easy to memorise, but the yarn is not good match for the pattern I most admit.
I hope Tina, our dorm cook, likes them!
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I am actually knitting alot these days. The thing is that my boyf has taken my camera with him Rwanda – and I miss them both! 
I am working on my own version of Honeycomb-socks and on a Scottie Cardigan from Erica knigth. Both projects are turning put very nicely. The Cardigan is from the book below
And while I am knitting I am enjoying the last Harry Potter book in my headphones
Filed under: Favourites, Halloween, Stuff, Uncategorized | Tags: Halloween, nightmare before christmas, pumpkin carving, pumpkins, stencils
This is Halloween!
Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn’t you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It’s our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red
I am the one hiding under your stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
In this town, don’t we love it now?
Everybody’s waiting for the next surprise
Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something’s waiting now to pounce, and how you’ll scream
Scream! This is Halloween
Red ‘n’ black, slimy green
Aren’t you scared?
Well, that’s just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take the chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night
Everybody scream, everybody scream
In our town of Halloween
I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace
I am the “who” when you call, “Who’s there?”
I am the wind blowing through your hair
I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!
Tender lumplings everywhere
Life’s no fun without a good scare
That’s our job, but we’re not mean
In our town of Halloween
In this town
Don’t we love it now?
Everyone’s waiting for the next surprise
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everyone scream
Won’t ya please make way for a very special guy
Our man Jack is king of the pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King no
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween!
Filed under: Knitting, UFO, Uncategorized | Tags: frogged, kal, Knitting, mysterysock, ravelry, socks
So Kisten Kapur auther of Through-the-loops came up with the great idea of a Socktober mystery sock KAL. I had never done a KAL before, so I thought it was time. Last year I promised my friend Esben a pair of socks. And when I told him about the mystery sock patter (he couldn’t stop laughing ), he was up for the challenge.
So I cast on using some bamboo sock yarn I had saved for Esben. Clue no 1 went without any trouble – see pic above. But halfway through Clue no2 I was having serious doubts. The yarn was too fine for the needles I had chosen, and them being made of aluminium certainly didn’t help. Secondly the pattern was just to feminine for my friend. Perhaps it would have worked in a different yarn, but I just wasn’t happy with the result. What you see above is now frogged.
This is what they should have looked like (pictures borrowed from Ravelry). I have seen the pattern done in more “masculine” colors, where it seems to work just fine. But I just wasn’t feeling it.
Here is an example of the more komplex version, with cables. Also very pretty – and time consuming.
So all in all, a fun challenge – but not for me, right now at least
This Friday is for Favourite Knitblogs! Here is my three favorite knitblogs:
- B R O O K L Y N T W E E D – knitblog in English, wonderful pictures and work.
- Yarnstorm – blog with knitting among other things, wonderful pictures and colors.
- Med 2 Pinde - Danish knitblog/adoptionblog very sweet.
I read 65 blogs using the wonderful Google-reader, and I keep adding and subtracting. But these three are somehow special to me
