This past Monday the scene was set for the first of many knitting to get-togethers at my dorm GAHK. It was a great success! 7-10 girls stopped by during the evening, and participated in the knitting.

The scene, with the, candles, lovly brownies and lots of lots of knitting tools.

I was fortunate enough, that these wonderfull avid knitters dropped by – Thea and Rikke of Powerkitty (who brought wonderful Brownies)

Amalie here was a freshman-knitter, but was a quick learner She is up for learning how to knit socks at our next knitting-evening. Very Cool!

Uuh and I started a new projekt – Knotty! And it is going great, I’ll post more about it, when I get further in the process (it seems to be a quick-knit).

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!

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!

“This is our knitting club… for a while now, there has been a disagrement about some of the patterns, but I am sure that will all be resolved before you move in Miss Petersen…”

A fun cartoon, by the danish cartoonists Wulfmorgenthaler Enjoy!

Scottie Cardi for Laura

Pattern: “Scottie Cardie” By Erika Knight from Simple Knits for Little Cherubs

Yarn: BC Garn Lucca Fino (Nr. ub43-100gr.)

Needles: US 4 / 3.5 mm

Size: 2,5 years old – I hope she can still fit into it

Notes: The knitting part was very straight forward, even though it would have been nice with a more accurate pattern, like telling me how many rows to knit instead of how many cm. The sewing part was the hardest part for me, it would have been great if the full fashioning had been written into the pattern.

Here is a close-up of the cardie so you can really see the lovely yarn – super soft and a nice thick brown color!

Halfway through the process. I very much enjoyed knitting from a cone, but I have no idea how much yarn I used.

Cute buttons. Uni-sex, if Laura should get a kid brother then he would be able to also use the cardie. The band was for sewing inside the Cardie to strengthen it were it is sewn together. In the end I only used it on the shoulder and neck seams.

Last but not least, a closeup of my weapon of choise for this project.

These have been done for quite some time. But due to a lot problems with my computer, I haven’t been able to post them

Pattern: Vespergyle mittens by Elinor Brown

Opinion: Great pattern, very easy to memorise and very nice result! I might do it again sometime

They now belong to my Rasmus. And even though they very extremely fun and easy to knit! The best thing about them, is hearing him brag to everybody he knows, about them! He still wears them.. and it’s 20 degrees celcius outside!

Here are a couple of pictures from the process. Please note that the colours are more accurate on the top ones.

For more info, comment on this post or tjek out my Ravelry.

Honey Comb Socks – my way!

Pattern: HoneyComb Socks by Nina Duke-Howard

Yarn: grey sock yarn, 70% wool, 30% ?

Needles: 4,5 mm

Modifications: Everything. I did them top down with a diamond heel.

These guys have actually been on their way for more than a year, embarrassingly! I promised Esben a pair of socks the fall of 2007, and this is the final result. The good news is that he really likes them.

Not very photogenic socks unfortunately.

Esben was kind enough to model them for me, whering his cowboy hat

These were actually finished in due time. Yet here they are a little over a month late They are just odinairy socks made from Opal Sock Yarn with a Parrot collor theme And the have been keeping me feet warn all through this last feezing month.

Oh yeah, bye the way, sorry for disapearing for a month.. I have finaly got a little more control over my life and finances again. I am taking a class at the IT-university, working in a daycare center and a theater.

My day has been planned around this wonderful and historic event – Barack Obama’s inauguration on January 20, 2009! When I saw this picture (cover of ms. magazine) I just had to post it! In Denmark feminism is almost a curse word, for some. While in Sweden most politicians (male as well as female) call them selves feminists! I know that this picture is photoshoped, but Obama is a self-proclaimed feminist. My point is, that if one of the world’s most important men is openly a feminist – that help change the minds of people the world over. In Denmark hopefully!

Inaugurations days do not have to be less crafty days than usual – check out Crafsters collections of political themed stuf. And when you are there, please note Crafsters new and less cluttered design. I chose to knit on my Honeycomb Socks that have been long over due. I must admit that I couldn’t help tearing up.

I am dealing with a lot these days, and my blogging energy isn’t what I want it to be. I am trying to get into a different university to take my masters, and it is completely uphill! So right now I desperately need a job and I am not taking any classes (because I get my bachelor degree in Art history this January) . All this uncertainty is stressing the hell out of me

Happy inauguration day to all.

When you can’t find anything better to do – you can always rest your eyes on some lovely yarn!

Here we have some lovely kid mohair – “Multi Kido” from Løve Garn

And this is a rainbow of wonderfull bamboo yarn from Opal

Lastly two skeins of Lucca Fino from garn.dk wound up by hand. This will someday be a hat for my friend Daniel – I hope!
Was it as good for you as it was for me?