Sometimes...

... you need a smile for lunch break.

A big adventure.

I started taking a weaving class about a year ago. Every monday evening I go to my weaving school. It is an old building and it always was a weaving school. Today it is also a museum: Haus der Handweberei Sindelfingen.

It's a lot of fun and it's always a bit sad to stop when class is over or when there are holidays and there is no weaving class for 6 weeks (in the summer).

But now my boyfriend decided that he wants to buy me a floor loom. I started looking for one and finally found a used Glimakra Ideal, 100cm weaving width, 8-shaft Countermarch loom. It was exactly what I wanted, the price was ok and it was an hours drive. I was very excited when I won the ebay auction.

Last weekend we went there and got the loom: a wooden puzzle.

The result:

I still need some stuff to tie it up and other things, but I hope I can put my first warp on it next weekend.

Last weeks bentos...

The past week was rather busy, but at least I made bento everyday.

Last weeks bentos

As always most of the receipes are from the Just Bento cookbook, the 10 minute bento cookbook or JustBento.com!

Bento and knitting....

Since the food in our canteen is not better this year than last year I'm still making bento, also last week I did only take one picture:

It's from my favorite bento page: JustBento.

During the holidays I managed to knit a whole cardigan, but it is still missing the buttons. And I also started a to knit a ingenious but slightly insane pattern:  Fox Paws.

Of course I use my own handspun, maybe you remember this:

which became this yarn:

And something more to show... we did a swap on Ravelry; a advent calendar version of the Swap for Scraps: everyone had to pack 24 equal bags of 5 gr fiber which then were redistributed so that everyone ended up with 24 different bags. It was so much fun because I decided to try and spin and knit the fiber on the same day.

They became a very large and cozy shawl:

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. 

Todays bento...

... tamagoyaki, sushi and a cucumber salad:

Receipes from my favorite bento website+book: JustBento!

Todays bento...

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

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.

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:

Todays bento...

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

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

In the Train...

Walking in the woods today...

Webkurs

Im Haus der Handweberei in Sindelfingen

Traveling by train = Knitting Time...

Kooza in Munich...

Fantastic....

Painting a chair

Introducing Shanti...

A new friend for Zwerg:

Running out of yarn...