Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Christmas knitting...

I started with my knitting for christmas presents...
The first item is an Irida shawl (from the first PLY magazine, knitted from handspun yarn. It is from the last FatCatKnits Club and while I really love the yarn it is just not a color I would wear:


Also my towels which I wove in weaving class are off the loom (but not yet sewn), so time for planing a new project: a scarf with honey comb pattern. I will use a handspun yarn that I spun with samples from a phat fiber sample box and plyed with a silk thread. 





Thursday, November 06, 2014

Todays bento...

... tamagoyaki, sushi and a cucumber salad:


Receipes from my favorite bento website+book: JustBento!

Friday, October 31, 2014

Todays bento...


Carrot kinpira, tamagoyaki, cucumber with spring onion and ginger, rice and for desert some apple slices.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

New spindles...

I tried supported spindles before, but somehow although I could produce a thread, it was not much fun. Then I took a workshop about supported spindling (and also spun a lot of long draw on my wheel) I kind of rediscovered my supported spindles. So much fun...

I was lucky to get 2 new spindles, made by "A spinners lair". Sadly he passed aways several years ago. I already had one spindle made by him and liked it very much. These are my new spindles, tibetian style supported spindles.


Monday, October 27, 2014

Wool combs...

I got small wool combs for christmas last year. I have not used them much, but I bought some milk sheep fiber from WoolShepherdess: from Greta and Heidi.
This weeking I started combing:



Friday, October 24, 2014

Todays bento...

I'm still making bento for lunch... today it is hijiki with carrots, tamagoyaki, green beans and rice.


Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Progress...

Currently knitting: Maasälpä by Veera Välimäki



Currently spinning: Scraps from a Swap long ago... sorted them into light and dark scraps... the plan is to get different yarns to knit the brilliant but slightly insane pattern Fox Paws







Monday, February 17, 2014

Monday, January 13, 2014

A mystery...


This is most of the first clue of a mistery KAL by Ysolda Teague (Follow your arrow). Each week you can choose between to options... 

The green yarn is a plant dyed yarn (Reseda and Indigo), it was a souvenir from the Wollmarkt in Vaterstetten... the other one is a Madeline Tosh Merino light yarn, that was lying around waiting for the perfect project....