A doodle, skirt and vase

I saw a skirt like that on somebody in a crowd at Masarykovo train station for 5 seconds and spent good time trying to remember it and figure out how to make it. I can imagine making it out of various pieces of fabrics and I hope my conviction lasts. The sweater is just a doodle, it would go well with the skirt. On certain occasions. The vase is mine and beatiful.

Berroco Peruvia yarn

I don't know how about you but I like it. I liked this (scroll down) sweater so I wanted to make something similar. It took me about a year.

novelties

Little guy designed a computer game. I kept staring at the picture for a while but did not realize what I was looking at. I just saw a strange and intriguing image. Only after he told me, I got it - the keyboard, the mouse, the screen. He had seen a retro computer game video and he has not stopped thinking about making one. He doesn't know what a hard job it is. He thinks his daddy can do it easily. Images of computer screens by kids are fun.

The sweater is almost finished. And so is winter. It will be a three cold days sweater.

Christmas decoration

 

 

I have been looking for some kind of "cool Christmas decoration" but I am not sure if something like that exists at all. But I have been collecting pictures by taking them from other people's blogs and stocking them in a file called "other people' stuff" and I am finding there things which could work as "creative" Christmas or winter decorations. My little boy still believes in the mystery of Christmas, little baby Jesus coming in the room and placing presents under the tree, maybe this is the last year he passes it without a doubt, I am pretty much sure. He enjoys the advent time and so do I. It snowed already but it melted. I think we can figure out how to make the icy coloured sculptures. Aren't they pretty?
Credits:
1. Ensuite 2. Kanelimaa 3. Mantelli (I think) 4. Mieke Willems 5. Kapital e-shop 6. Mantelli 7. Puhti 8., 9. Kanelimaa

Anacondas

Some knitting going on, forever, in this place. A sweater is almost a life long project. You start in the eighties, finish sometime by now, the style fits perfectly. (It is not this case, I started only last year).
The little guy made anacondas for the cabbage leaf plate.
So now I have to go, I must watch the Kingdom series by Lars von Trier.

Yeah, but I like this one better!!!! I should have waited to discover this and hop on my project from a broader perspective.
Jo Jackson's sweaters

sweater

Crazy knittig going on here. I am glancing at a picture of a Bauhaus wall hanging by Max Peiffer Watenphul from 1921. Berocco yarn and something red to exaggerate.

Mushroom pickers

 

 

 

I regenerated. I did not think about work for five hours. More pics on flickr.

Portrait and a sweater

 

  So back to knitting. I finished this piece just right on time. I actually started a year ago so it is perfect timing in the end. First one of this kind, nice and cosy hand painted yarn, little different shades of brown in each ball. Other than knitting: we are going to the mountains on Friday, the kid is looking up hotels on the internet (yes, you read right, my 5 years old), he puts down notes in his little notebook (so cute) and dreams. My work: searching the archives to supply pictures for a book for one show. Mood: steady. Appetite: large. Oh, and we are getting ready for my husbands show, the preparations mainly consist in making up a menu for the guests, the gallery owner likes cooking and eating. Quiche, salad, banana bread. I will show you how it went.