noro and opal

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

Noro_and_opal Noro_and_opal_detail

fern and waves fo

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

Fern_and_waves_fo_2

Fern_and_waves_fo_1 Fern_and_waves_fo_detail 

MeMo

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

Birthday_present_001

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

Front

the back

Back

the inside

Bag_inside

detail of the inside border

Zigzag_border

detail of the bird:

Mirjam_zwolsma_bag_bird_2

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

Beyerd_flags

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:
Battery_battery
There are projections on buildings:

Image_1_12
(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!

Graphic_design_festival_breda
Debeyerd_adv


Kick

The ferns are growing

Fern_and_waves_ip_2

  Fern_and_waves_ip_1

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!

Fernwaves

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:

Skein_malabrigo

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. 

Lace_malabrigo

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.

Fernandwaves_version_2

berlin is falling apart

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

Skp_2_loop1

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

Skp_2_loop2

pulled a thread through the stitch..

Skp_2_loop3

waved in both ends. And voila....

Skp2_fo2

Finished!

berlin muster

Skp_2_ufo_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

Skp_chart_64_stitches

Skp_2_ufo_2 

approved by the pope

Koniakow
read about it at lheurebleue (dutch blog)
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