Gifts and Mirror Socks

Look what the mailman brought me yesterday:

Thanx Metal and knit! I love the goodies! You rock grrl :D

We started a new KAL in my Dutch sock knitting group. "Spiegelsokken" or Mirror Socks. I want to knit mine in the wollmeise colourway Frosch and I've been winding my yarn:

As you can see I'm great in winding rugby balls :D
I wonder if a ball winder winds nicer, more round balls of yarn..


Anyway. I started the cable cast on on 2 circs, knitted the first round, pulling the first stitch realy tight and look:

A large "mind the gap" -hole between my needles....

I'm going to frog this and do my regular cast on, so I can knit the first 3 stitches with working yarn and tail yarn together. That should give me a nice close fit and no hole.

I hope... :D

Fibre craft fair and gifts

Danny and I went to the fibre craft fair in Den Bosch yesterday. We had a great time, bought some nice things and spent some time knitting at the Stitch 'n Bitch table.


I bought a yarn rack, something I wanted for a long time.

The cones with the yarn on it is linen thread and I bought that in Oerlinghausen. I'm planning to tablet weave or card weave with that.

I also bought a fabric cutter, some knitting needle protectors and a book:

Oh, and uhm... yes that _is_ Noro on the top left. Danny and I are going to knit some arm warmers from that. Danny bought also 2 balls; same colour as mine are. :D


When I got home I found 2 packages. One from my Fat Quarter swap partner:

Thank you so much Eve!


And one from my Punk Rock Gift Exchange semi-secret partner:

Thank you Metal and Knit!


As I have a week off from work I have enough to do and enjoy.
So here are my plans for tomorrow:

First I will go to my school (info from link is in Dutch only) for my arts and crafts lessons. We are working with clay at the moment and I made a vase.. some sort of.. Anyway, it looks like a vase, lets put it that way. ;-))

After my lessons I go to visit my mum and dad, finally giving them their socks I knit them and in the evening you will find me at Café De Jaren, to meet my knitsibs (I love that word, Brenda Dayne uses it in her podcast) from my Stitch and Bitch group.


so, I write:
TTFN, CUsoon
:D

Punk Rock Gift Exchange

1. Why are you punk?
It's in my DNA.

2. What are your five favorite things? (these don't have to be knit related)
Fiber, Cats, Fiber, Books, Fiber, Lavender, Fiber, my Irish pub, did I mention Fiber? :D

3 . What are your three favorite things that you have made with knitting/crochet?
My alpaca wrist warmers, my tigersocks and my bag with cables. Pictures at my flickr page

4. What five things would you love to see in a swap box someday?
Yarn, spinning fibers, cross stitch silks in blues, purples or greens, punk-themed stitchmarkers, oh and spindles.

5a. What are your three favorite yarns?
Koigu, Wollmeise and Alpaca

5b.What are your three least favorite yarns?
I don't like angora and mohair, or the novelty eyelash yarns, the hairy ones. And I don't like 100% acrylic or thick itchy yarns.

6. What are your five favorite delicacies?
I don't like candy, only the dark, dark, chocolate. I love the smell of lavender, sage and lime. I'd "kill" for black dark roasted coffee. I like the feel of soft, luxurey yarn. That's only 4, can't think of anything else right now..

7. What are your three favorite guilty pleasures?
Magnum. the new dark Equadorian, chocolate one because I'm trying to lose some weight. Reading until deep in the night, knowing you have to get up early in the morning to go to work. I have a lot more pleasures, but I don't feel guilty about them. I Njoy them ;-)

8. What are the five things you look forward to every week?
Saterday morning, Staterday afternoon, Saterday evening, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon :D But ok seriously: the weekend in general, my Monday evening Stitch 'n Bitch-meeting, meeting with my friends, the day I put clean sheets on my bed, aka as 'clean sheet day' and although I hate to do groceries, it's always very nice when my fridge is full of good, healthy fresh food (and drinks) for me to cook with every evening.

9. What do you collect?
Books, wishlists, patterns, yarn

10. When is your birthday?
June 3rd

11. Do you have any wishlists?
I collect them, but my main list is on http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2LI6A97VYG2HU/

12. What would you like your pal to know that is not covered here?
I smell books before I buy them, if it smells ok, the book goes with me, if not, I won't buy the book. Unless I am buying online, then I smell afterwards ;D I'm fiber obsessed, geeky and I love giraffes. I don't like babies, dogs and the dutch-national-soccer-team-orange.