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lovely egg cozy

Veröffentlicht am 15. März 201310. Juli 2020 von Carina6 Kommentare

It was probably right around Valentine’s day when the stores started selling Easter Chocolate, Easter eggs, Easter jelly beans and Easter candy. There were still another two months to go, but you would get all sorts of Easter decoration at the drug store and Easter greeting cards at the stationary shop. Easter EVERYWHERE! I did my best to ignore all of that until …

… I ran into Crazy Dazy’s lovely Egg Cozies. And before I knew it I found myself in an armchair knitting a little bunny lady.

The pattern is easy to understand, anyone used to knit in rounds with four (or five) double-pointed knitting needles shouldn’t have a problem to follow. However, this little lady will stay single, a lone wolf … Knitting something that small, those tiny ears, embroidering the minuscule nose, and making a mini pom-pom is definitely not for me. Sadly!

Fortunately, Easter in our house is with hard boiled eggs that do not need a cozy 🙂 Consequently, the lady will either become a stuffed animal and live with the boy or move out …

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Update in 2019: the pattern is no longer available for free. It can be bought at ravelry.

Nexus Sleeve

Veröffentlicht am 22. Februar 201310. Juli 2020 von Carina2 Kommentare

Sometimes I feel jealous that people are out there coming up with awesome stuff like this!

Neesha posted her pattern for a beautiful, no fuss, unostentatious crochet tablet sleeve. Very easy to follow, uncomplicated to adapt (depending on tablet size), and a success without fail. So I decided to make this my birthday present for M. What can I say – it turned out great! Hard to show on a picture though.

But then I happened to find the knitted sleeve Dona made … To quote her – I almost „died in jealousy and envy“ and of course I had to make this one too. Here it is:

It’s a streamlined version without pom-poms but with a tweedy button and it fits as smooth and sleek as the crochet one. M unpacked both of them this morning (it’s his birthday today – ta daa!!) and I could tell he had no clue what it was. Fortunately, J and I could help 🙂 He then seemed to like both of them, took the knitted one to work and I am really, really pleased.

Sock Yarn Blanket

Veröffentlicht am 10. Februar 201310. Juli 2020 von Carina12 Kommentare

A friend’s mother gave me her sock yarn left overs as she had no use for it any more and I decided to make a blanket out of it. Starting with one stitch, increasing by knitting into front and back of each last stitch of row (until each side measured 2 m / 6.5 ft., then decreasing), while using needles size 5 (US 8) it would soon become bigger and bigger. J would decide on the order of skeins and each stripe would be as big as a skein would go. It finally became a very light but very warm blanket that J loves to use. No wonder! I wish I had the words to describe how it feels like to be wrapped into it.

Little Horse, „Waldorf style“

Veröffentlicht am 30. Januar 201310. Juli 2020 von Carina19 Kommentare

Actually, I am working on an African Flower blanket and a new cover for a footstool / ottoman (posts to be) but coming across an unusual pattern almost ALWAYS makes me put things on hold and start over … This is what happened when I discovered the homepage of a German Waldorf kindergarden, suggesting to knit farm animals. I instantly fell for the horse. The pattern is very easy, the outcome delightful. We have a band of wild horses now. And one zebra.

First, you knit the body according to the pattern. It’s all in one piece with a little increase and decrease. Quick and easy, done in an hour.

Then you fold it …

… and finally you join it (don’t forget to work in the tail).

So far, all our horses have neither ears nor a mane as I don’t like the ears the pattern suggests and do not know how to do the mane. But isn’t it loveable even without?!

Warming Wool Worms

Veröffentlicht am 24. Januar 201310. Juli 2020 von Carina2 Kommentare

Our house was built in the 1930s. People in the 60s did their best though to hide its beauty … carpeting, wooden panels, and psychedelic wallpapers literally EVERYWHERE when we bought it. See the hallway before and after and you get the idea.

However, to live in an old house has a lot of advantanges but it can be toublesome at times. Big issue until today are some of the windows … Old German houses have box-type windows (not sure about the expression), that is to say you have an outer and an inner window with a gap of probably 3 to 4 inches in between. After all I know, the air that is „stuck“ there is supposed to provide thermal insulation. And it does – but not in all the rooms. There are some windows that are always moist, even wet, and occasionally we had (beautiful) frost patterns … Until a friend told me to “seal” those windows by displaying knitted “worms” in between. That’s what I did and – SURPRISE – it works! The windows aren’t dry but there is no more water running down.

Honor to whom honor is due: My mom knitted those worms for me – originally they were meant to be door sweeps 🙂