Astrid knits her way out

noro and opal

Remember these socks? I am doing the same trick, but now with opal and noro sockyarn.

fern and waves fo

The fern and waves shawl is now officialy a finished object.

 

MeMo

I am a big fan of Saskia knits it again. At her site a saw this. Thought it might be fun.

The explanation was copied from Saskia's site (who copied it as well!)

Here it goes:

The concept:

A. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

B. Using only the first page, pick an image.

C. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker)

The Questions:

1. What is your first name ? astrid

2. What is your favorite food? pasta

3. What highschool did you go to? titus brandsma

4. What is your favorite colour?  red

5.  Who is your celebrity crush?  al pacino

6. Favorite drink?  red portwine

7. Dream vacation?  molivos, greece

8. Favorite dessert? creme brulee

9. What do you want to be when you grow up?  old knitting lady

10. What do you love most in life?  my family

11. One word to describe you. restless

12.  Your Flickrname.  astridpersons1

birthday birds

artist: sushipot purchased at etsy.

The 10th of june was my birthday. I had to work that day which was in fact useless. Hardly any work was done because of cake eating collegues and receiving kisses and hugs. In the evening we went with a total of 8 family members to a restaurant and enjoyed a delicious meal. A great day.

Ofcourse there were presents. I will show you the present that my husband gave me: I could choose a bag at Mirjam Zwolsman, a dutch bag-designer who happens to live in the same neighbourhood as I do. Besides bags she designes this very cute hats for children, Buddybugs.  You can change the picture at the front, cool prints of typical kiddo-animals are included. (crocodile! shark! puppy!)

I gave her the content of my old working bag and asked her to design me a bag in which all this clutter would fit.

This is the result. I am so happy with it, I love the birdie, the place for my glasses, phone, keys, agenda, wallet, workingpass and more.

the front

the back

the inside

detail of the inside border

detail of the bird:

And  if you are wondering what the first picture is all about: because I turned 46 and received my holiday  payment "vakantiegeld", I allowed myself to buy a little bitsy piece of art.

graphic design festival breda

In my hometown the Graphic Design Festival takes place. The Graphic Museum
De Beyerd wil be opened on juni 11th.
There are exhibitions and a lot of posters from graphic designers. There is also a poster of the graphic design studio Battery&Battery that has designed our snb logo:

There are projections on buildings:

(see the knitting motif?)
There is already a lot of contraversion about the festival and the museum about a poster and flags. But that is what Dutch people do: nag, nag, nag when there is something new and innovating.
I think Breda looks more vibrant than ever. Visit us and enjoy!

The ferns are growing

 

Fern&Waves

Sometimes you see a beautiful knitting on the internet which has your name all over it:

THIS IS MINE! IT IS DESIGNED FOR ME:  MUST KNIT IT. NOW!

Fern&waves

You buy a yarn that is soft and has gorgeous colours that fits the name of the design as if it has made just for it:

Then you start to knit and at the end of the evening you look at the result and suddenly you realise that there is nothing wrong with the pattern and certainly nothing wrong with the yarn (soft as a baby's bottom) but the marriage of the two will end up in a divorce. Where did the ferns go? The colors and the motif are too much. They kill eachother. 

And you are the child left in the middle. They have to break up. As sad as it is. 

But do not dispare, my little one, because one parrent has found a new partner:

soft, great colour, size xxl but I think the combo is up for a longterm relationship.

berlin is falling apart

After finishing the second berlin muster sock of SKP 2008, I discovered a loose stitch in the first sock:

See? Frogging the whole sock was obviously not an option. So I took a needle:

pulled a thread through the stitch..

waved in both ends. And voila....

Finished!

berlin muster

 

Knitting the second pair of the SKP 2008 has not been easy. The chart was not correct. I hate that. Checking out the hundreds of e-mails on this subject just made it worse: everyone gave directions and others corrected them. So out of this chaos of e-mails and different charts, I made a chart that looks like a correct one.

Cast on 64 stitches.

There is a repeat of 3 untill the heel.

Then another 3 repeats before the toe.

That's it.

CLICK ON THE CHART TO PRINT IT

 

approved by the pope

read about it at lheurebleue (dutch blog)
english readers: go to: koniakow