felted acorns

as promised a little pic of those cute little acorns
i made ...
soooooo lovely, aren't they?

simply needle felted and so many possibilities to use them...

finished my meridien yesterday and there are only a few rounds left of the second sleeve of redy

maybe i will find some muse to finally publish some
of my patterns??? have to work over the weekend, so eventually
next week...

big hugs,
isa k.

dragonflies to love

i am sooo in love with this design by Joji!!!
couldn't resist casting on a second one (even a third, but it's on hold, due to some testknits i have to finish)

this time i used cascade 220 (for the first time!) and

i think that i fell in love with this yarn too :D

i did k2/p2 ribbings for hems and neck - just for fun

and i think the design works also well with this more sportive

edgings.

casted on for a third one in fingering weight yarn.

we'll see how this goes - will be slow going, of course...

i have too many things to finish the next weeks

also i have a lot to do at work - crafty season is dawning;

i have to prepare my kids craft classes and finish samples for

the shop, to show up the materials we sell.

today i did some uber cute felted acorns...i just luuuuv them

i really need to take some pics to show, maybe one likes them

as much as i do?

aaaand...i dyed some yarn,... yummy yarn!

BFL dk weight in a wonderful shaded grey, can hardly say how 

i felt when i took the yarn out of the dyepot... was so excited

about dying this (not cheap!)yarn

but it worked, and i think it worked absolutely fine!!!

there runs a cardi in my mind....but i won't be able to start

a new project now....got toooooo much on my needles:

meridien testknit for Jo (i know i am too late...but i started

4 weeks after the testing group!)

redy in a stunning turquoise! (Anke sent me some wonderful skeins

of mohair!!)

and last bloomsbury testknit for Svetlana (she asked me to test

and what could i say?)

....hopefully all sweaters will be finished next week, meridien only needs a left sleeve, redy also + a half of the right sleeve and bloomsbury needs half of the body and 2 sleeves,... so girl, don't write about knitting - take your needles and knit!!!!

have fun out there

isa k.

bright and merry days

phew! all those busy, busy days in december!

but all in one this is my favorite time of year...

crafting, knitting, cooking for the ones i love

this little mouse is on its way to austria

to my third owlsister 

hope she will love her shining face as we did

as long as she was here....

another lovely felt mouse i made for a good friend

some goodies went to france last week

all the best xmas wishes to mademoiselle c. 

i had lots of fun :)

simple but really stylish leather bracelet

made for my coworker

gifts and goodies for manu

i planned a couple more posts in december,

but there was too much to do to make it work..

so i will leave with wishes of peace for you and your family

take care and have bright and merry days

may the world revolve in peace 

...

isa k.

new passion

sock animals! what a cute thing..

got this book some time ago

and did my first sock zebra! isn't he lovely?!

just a sneak peak - there are many, many more

adorable guys in this book

...

for now i have to quit 

no time - xmas crazyness, you know!

a new sweater project is on my needles

hope to be able to show the next days

we will be away for xmas shopping

this weekend.... a 2 days trip to lake constance

maybe i can show some pics on monday

(if my hunt will be sucessful?!)

stay calm theses days

isa k.

crafty days

wanna show you those cute santas

i made out of branches

all you need.

cutting tools to get the bark off

sandpaper for a smooth surface

brushes, paint and a steady hand (hahaha...

not one of my strong points)

happy crafting

isa k.

back again

sorry for being absent so long,

so much work, so less time....

couldn't resist showing this "little" angel

i made out of a styrofoam ball, wooden toothpicks and

papier-maché

...

also have many projects on my needles

a few are ready - have to do some pics!

(both cameras were on holidays the last weeks; 

one in egypt with my third owlsister, the other went to heidelberg with M.)

working on a mohair shawl/scarf with ruffles,

a sweater (simple outdoor sweater in grey -

raglan construction, scoop neck, big needles),

a seed st cowl,

a bunch of hats for x-mas gifting,

some cute crocheted owls,.....and many more

...

and last but not least 

i'm working on secret testknits for joji 

so hard not to show any of those gorgeous designs,

time will come and i will show you all!!!!

hugs 

isa k.

DIY advent wreath

i know it's a bit early for x-mas crafting

especially when it is such a quick and easy project..

but i couldn't resist posting 

what i did last night.. :)

a super cute knitted advent wreath

all you need is some bulky yarn

matching needles, 

one straw wreath (don't know if this is the right word?!)

tapestry needle,

crepe paper matching the yarns colour

ribbon and some decoration

and here is the how-to:

measure around your straw wreath

to figure out the width of your knitting

you also have to measure, or calculate the circumference

of your wreath

in my case this was about 18 cm in width

and the circumference was 94 cm

make a swatch with your yarn

my yarn knits up to a gauge of 1 st per cm

provisionally co the st amount you need to get the desired width

and begin working in garter st 

you will not need to knit to the total length

cause this will stretch out very much

you may want to check the length from time to time

i didn't do that, so i had to ripp back a few rows

now undo the provisional co and graft

the pieces together

you can see that i grafted knitwise

to have some plain space for my ribbon 

cut your crepe paper in 7cm straps

and wrap around your wreath

now place the knitted piece on your wreath

and do a simple whipstitchseam

to get your wreath wrapped with your knitted piece

and decorate.....

hope a few like this as much as i do

happy crafting

isa k.

crafty roundup

my week wasn't that nice

spend most of my time with averting a disaster

the man i was married to a long, long time ago (seams to be

a long time, but....) has huge financial problems

shouldn't be my problem any more, but unfortunately it is.

he still owns a half of my home; additional i gave him 
an absolute suretyship for one of his accounts...

so i spend my week with lawyers, in court, with bankers

and so on.....

nevertheless i had a crafty week, maybe it's because of that disaster that i did all those things...?

first an armchair makeover

mr. rossi loves it

me too,.. in his former life this armchair was nice and white

thought that i need some colour changes and went on

dying the covers...........

total flop!!!!

stains all over..darker, lighter, small and large stains!

so i dived into my fabricstash and

started a total makeover.

and it worked! i'm very pleased with it now

also started some new knitting projects..;))

this will be a striped cardi with garter borders

yarn. fortissima alpaka in gray and trekking pro natura in mustard, both sockyarns i had in my stash

needles. 3 mm (am i mad?, a whole cardi on such small needles?!!)

swatched for another cardi

pattern. forestry by veronik avery,

i did this before and i like my forestry that much that

i'm going for another one

yarn. wollness uni by austermann

needles. 3.5 mm and 4 mm

....................

got a new storage for some part of my sewing stuff

a lunchbox!

so cool!!

have a good day

hopefully my days will get better

isa k.