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Somehow it happens, that on Sundays we drift to the huge American bookstore at the nearby retail park. This time the plan was only to go test whether there's a wifi connection available at Starbucks: apparently that's something they advertise a lot.
Well, they didn't have it, so we just had frappucinos and a piece of cheesecake.
During Sunday we also watched the ballet Giselle by Corps de Ballet of the Teatro Alla Scala on DVD. That was really interesting. The last time I watched ballet I was a grumpy teenager who was forced to watch it during family dinner. This time I actually enjoyed it. But surely, I knit through watching it.
Thought I'd put in a book review (sorry all you pure-knit-bloggers)
I read a book by Stel Pavlou, called Decpiher. They seem to admire this on Amazon, but I personally wasn't too impressed. Ok, he studied a lot for it and the idea is really interesting and the realisation new, but still the book was somehow sensation-seeking and repeated it's own patterns. I mean, for example the finishing sentence of a chapter was always the same format, short and selling. That became really boring during the 600 and more pages.
I made it, my first real pair of socks is ready and in use. The new owner seems happy enough to have recieved them (well, he saw me working on them hard), but to be honest they are not the best-made socks I've seen.
I chose the wrong cast-on, made the heelpflap bit weird, and picked up way too many sticthes - and decrased far too slowly to fix that mistake. Did I mention I had too big needles? Or well, maybe not, the airy effect is nice, but the new sockowner is concerned they'll break right away. They might, who knows.
I have enough Lana Grossa Mailenweit Magico left to make myself a pair too. Now that I know what went wrong with these, I'll be able to fix the mistakes in the next pair.
I won't be starting on socks right away, though. I decided I'll find my old beginning-of-a-swater fom my stash and continue on that. Here's the situation:
A word (or a picture) of warning to all you out there who won't swatch. Remember my hat I was knitting a week back? Here it is knitted up. Nice, huh?
I thought it just might be a big too big for anyone, so I simply frogged it.
Now I'm thinking should I try to knit the hat again, or just to use the yarn for something else.
The hat was really fun to make; I actually got a serious knitting need last monday and practically finished it in a few hours.
On the other hand, summer's coming - I won't be needing such a hat for a long time.
I'll keep you posted - and will knit a swatch next time!
I decided I need to Flash my stash too, even if it would be too late. So here it goes!
Since I've been knitting only since last autumn, I guess this is quite ok... and I DO knit from it!
My surf-and-roll round on Saturday night started peacefully, I knit a few rows and surfed a lot.
The first interesting site I came across was Merka's blog. (in Finnish) I cannot believe she's only 14years old! Such beautiful work, and so much of it! Absolutely great!
The next shot was Muoriska. She must be the only Finn to take part in Tangelled Angel's and Tea And Cakes' Knitters Treat Exchange. Even I'm not taking part (this time).
A Simple Yarn has some lovely photos of our S'n'B meeting today - outside at Dublin Castle!
This is what I knit today:
After a long, long while, I got my hands on a book that really facinated me so much, that I could hardly lay it off my hands during the working day. So, indeed I didn't, but finished this book in 3 days.
Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs is not a literary masterpiece by any accord, but it tells a great story, is compelling and facinating; it shows how the destinies of different women come togehter in a knitting shop's weekly group. This touches me, as a member of a knitting group myself I found the stories and the group's support very well described.
