Knittted Christmas gifts

One week before Christmas I got hooked. Hooked on making some Christmas presents for the pure joy of giving something to someone else.

And so I was busy knitting and after the knitting the packing came. And after the packing the shipping. I made it before December 24 for the presents I had to send. The ones that are delivered personally, well, they got also finished. Unfortunately, there was neither the time nor the light to take some useful fotos of the finished objects. They have been mostly scarves.

And now I am wondering whether, when and how they will be received and what the reaction will be.

Losing stuff

Forgot my Birkenstock sandals on my way home from work last Friday. Left them hanging in the bag I transported them in in the train I was travelling with. Posted a search request at lost and found. All via the internet. So far, there has not been a positive answer. Perhaps, the Birkenstocks wanted to get lost? Who knows.

On Saturday my mother lost her wallet in the bus. When she called lost and found of the bus company on Monday, she was informed that it had been found. I guess, she is the lucky one

Knitting

Have been knitting now for some time on some gift projects. Mostly with yarn I spun myself about a year ago. Funny, how this yarn all of a sudden resurfaces and wants to be dealt with. And, actually, I like to knit it, although some of it is quite uneven spun.

The light, unfortunately, is not good enough to take any photographs, but I will try at last  before I pack and dispatch them.

Saturday was my lucky day

First, I got a new hair cut.

Second, I had a finding-fitting/matching-business-clothes streak that was just incredible. Including also a sensible sales woman who knew how to deal with me. And so I am prepared now for what is going to come next. Whatever this may be.

Mittagessen

Die Bratwurst ruft. & so gibt’s Senf mit Semmel und eben - Bratwurst.

Nur leider später am Nachmittag, da knurrt dann der Magen und meldet, dass das nicht genug war. Oh. Je. Mi. Ne.

Sunday and so much to do

Today saw me continuing with my knitting marathon. I wanted, I wanted so much to get finished with that sweater. This weekend. I have started it before I left for my holidays and got back on it as soon as I had reached the finishing line of NaNoWriMo 07 - for the first time I was there among the winners. 50000 words written in one month. Yay! It was so cool to paste in the whole text into the word counter and then find a moment later the confirmation that I’d made it. After all these years of trying and always finding somthing happening that needed my attention instead of writing. This time I made it. Against all odds and ends. And got the winner certificate.

Well, so, I was knitting like mad today, and watching Hercule Poirot episodes. When I finished the second sleeve, it was afternoon and definitively time for a little break. I went for a run. As I still have quite delicate heels, running means to me mostly testing out what works and what does not work. Astonishingly, pain dissipates after a while of running and so I got another nice little round done. I like running. One of my goals these days is to get back to do it regularly one to two times per week, pairing them with some daily yoga exercises.

After the break came the sewing together. And this takes as everyone concerned with knitting sweaters nows, quite some time. The actual sewing and then also the weaving in. By now I am the proud and happy owner of a new sweater. And of course, it had to be put on.

So far this is one of quickest knit sweaters ever. It is model #3 from Rebecca 33, knit with Zeta from Lang Yarns.

With December there came the longing for a tweedy garment

I long to knit something tweedy. So much. But as far I haven’t found yet a pattern that suits me really well. Will probably have to give the longing a little rest. Perhaps this will solve the problem.

Meanwhile I still have some socks on the needles and other projects going on, this one will probably have to  wait a little  bit longer.