eye candy friday

my first, so be gentle ^-^
I made another seahorse, changed the shaping, but running out of yarn, eek!, need to make another one - I guess, maybe a green one?
which shape do you like better, so far? the yellow or the orange one?, I think I prefer the yellow one and the next one, the green one will be like the yellow one as well, the tail will be longer as the tail of the orange seahorse and I hope more bended at the end/tip.

but let's see

seahorse love

some blooming from my "garden" which is my windowsill

basil

uuuhuh uh, new yarn arrived at my home =) new Wollmeise, the color is Zenzi and I love it, the first time I got to snag omething from the shop and I just click-click-click had new yarn, I actually seek for lace weight, the color is more or less unimportant, there are a few I would choose but the Pfauenauge would be in my top 10, or Birkenrinde or something like Wellensittichvogelfeder, there are a few shawls I like to make the Pretty As A Peacock Shawl or the South Seas Stole are on my wishlist, so the Pfauenauge (peacocks eye) would be perrrfect for the Pretty as a Peacock Shawl, and the South Sees would look awesome in another blue or greenish mix.


if you wanna see the Zenzi 'striptease' click here

why I like WIP's so much . . .

. . . because I miss them when I'm done.

I just realized this, the minute I finish something I miss it, I miss working at it, I miss holding the yarn, letting it run through my fingers, thinking about how I should continue, if I just follow the pattern or if I need to make changes or when crocheting new amigurumi how to shape the next mold or whatever. I miss it.

Lately I wondered what made me cast on a shawl when there's stockings nearly finished or a vest that waits for further stitches, and when I embroidered the last stitches to Peters face and I realized I had no more crochet WIPs, it became clearly, I had no more WIPs and I didn't like the feeling, not at all. Missing the WIPs also made me continue a little bit at my shawl (made three full repeats of the pattern and turned the provisional cast on into a picot edging - lovely)


also I started a new project, of course


and it's a new amigurumi, a seahorse, an orange seahorse, like it so far, though it's still missing quite a few important details, like a snout, or muzzle? what do seahorses have? I have no idea, note to self: look up seahorses anatomy!

on vacations with the BF

a long weekend with my boyfriend. We don't get to see each other very often (long distances), so this weekend wasn't much knitting but sightseeing, the beach, the movies, and a visit in neighbouring town Stralsund in the new museum called Ozeaneum. Opened on friday and been there at saturday, it wasn't all finished yet but nevertheless pretty interessting. The most impressing part were the whales in original sizes that hung in a dark room with whale-noises, whales ARE big animals.


lots of other information and beach animals




the only bad thing on the town is its cobblestone pavement, the whole town is cobbles, I can tell you my feet burned yesterday and my legs still ache today (of course a long walk at the beach in the sand doesn't make it much better)

search the acorns

Flower Pot - downloadable

The Pattern for the flower pot is up now
it's stored at ravelry but I hope the link does work for non-ravelrers as well

the pattern has not been tested, but I think it's error-free (I found some and fixed them) but if you find something, probably something that's not being expressed clearly enough please leave a message.

press to download

FO - Peter with the Sting

I'm a little bit stupid right now, it's late, I'm squeaking when speaking, I'm singing "like ice in the sunshine", I'm eating strawberry creme filled dark chocolate and there is a Peter in my appartment, no Peter Pan (although that's where I got the name from) but a Peter the scorpion



finally finished my poisonous pal


and I got to find a name, some of you made great suggestions, I liked Stephen, Venamous Victor - how cruel, Vladimir, Lord Vaughn Hastings - whooo way to dark and aristocratic, this scorpion doesn't kill ^_^, Stingy or (very cool) Androctonus crassicauda - Andy Crass, for short but I was looking for something, well . . . more traditional and I also came across Fredrik, Enrico, Stuart or Vincent, but Peter made it, so take a look again at Peter Scorpion.


The pattern is out for testing

controversy

it's official now, I am a real knitter. Today is the hottest day of the summer (so far) and I just casted on a scarf.
it's the leave and acorn lace scarf. my first lace (if you want so), I mean I would consider my waterfalls to be lace but they're stockings, my fishnet stockings are lacy as well, but again, they are stockings. I've done quite some lace things but this scarf I would say is my first "real" lace, I have no idea why I think so, maybe fault of the hottest day of the summer but that's how I feel.
Also my first time I turned hanky into center pull ball (now I know I prefer balls over hanks, and hank sounds so nice and harmless, do you know any Hank who isn't nice? I don't!)
I'm using stash yarn, haha, not that I would really have a stash, but I use Wollmeise Sockyarn in Frosch colorway. Green would be perfect for this scarf.

also today there was a word in my head that wanted to be spoken over and over again: Hobbledihoi!, It's not even a real word! but it was in my mind, piercing it, forcing me to say it out loud. Now don't think I'm kind of weird, this doesn't happen often to me, but sometimes there just is a word, you know just like a stupid catchy tune, that you just can't stand, but it's there and won't go away - bah!

Now that I've written it down, I feel better, thanks for reading