The apprentice

I followed the instructions...

...with some modification due to size of pearls...

...and with a little help...

...I did this:

Now I have to find a proper pearl to replace the green "congo" pearl and some more emroiderifloss and make myself a bracelet

I´m in love!

Odd Molly of course. Does anyone know where I can buy lace like that?

Taxi knitting

Taxi knitting has to be simple in a way that you have to be able to put it down any second as well as just pick it up and start knitting.I´ve been working on the "sugar cardigan" adapted to a sweather from Marianne Isagers, knitting a la carte, a book that I think is publiched in english. A really good knittingbook with a lot of wearable clothes that can be adapted to different styles, a lot of them knitted from top down. The sugar cardigan got it´s name after her aunt who wore a similar cardigan for gardening, she traded the yarn for sugar cupons during the second world war

It´s a very simple pattern with a little braid, done in a new way to me; knit both stitches but don´t pull them of the needle, then knit the first one again, slip! I like the way the sleeves are expending by adding stitches between the braids

I´m using the grey woolyarn, the same as for the spede, and a lace weight darker grey from Isager in alpacka, the same as the circular shawl for my mothers birthday. I need to buy more of this so I started a new project. The Miyake from design.club.dk

and I´m using the same grey wool, hopefully i will be enough. It´s a very simple shape knitted in 5 knit and 5 purl rows that are draped on the body.
Then you have to meet Pepsi, the latest and cutest member of our family, lives with my brother and his family

I know the author!

I did macrame once. One thing I made was a belt with a closure with a piece of wood when I was a girl scout. That macrame was lightyears from what Annika does with the same craft. I known about the book for a while and now I have it! Thanks to the excellent service of the net book store

The book has step by step instructions with photos to every project.
So now I have to stach cord too...

The other book is a swedish book about mittens, socks and hats etc, basically all the things you don´t want to knit in april. But it has nice variations to the basic patterns with twisted I-cords in the middle of the projects etc. I will show you later like in the fall.

One of my favourite knittingbooks by Lene Holme Samsoe is beeing published in english I think the name of it is "Knitting feminine" something... If you recall my purple skirt and the blue frost flower cardigan, they are from this book and there are a lot of other really good wearable things in it.

Glamour girl bag

The Marilyn bag is finished. I did it in one week.

I added a silk lining i hot red, after all she is a glamour girl

Grandma squares bag

This little bag from Odd Molly got me thinking of a UFO in my chest

A lot of weaving in to do and some constructionwork

But at least I see the light in the end of the tunnel now. I started the crochet with a pattern from the Happy hooker but couldn´t resist branching out