paulie

the gray/yellow cardi is making progress

....

did a shortrow shaped collar in garter st

think i will do an i-cord bo, maybe in yellow?

gray buttons?

yellow[brown] buttons?

that's the question......

all the best wishes for your next week

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.

camera cozy

quick project in between

a friend asked for a camera cozy cause his wife always

takes his socks (one at a time) to cover her little camera

yarn. sockyarn leftovers

needles. 3 mm dpns

worked in the round

co 40 sts. 6 rounds k2,p2 ribbing.

made a few decreases for the rounded edge

and used 3needle bo to avoid seaming

 also made the rubberstamp

....isn't it cool?

have a good day

isa k.

walnuss

unfortunately i found no additional yard in my stash

so my walnuss cardi ended up with 1/2 sleeves

and i like it just the way it is....

walnuss update

could be that i will run out of yarn.....eeeeeehh!!

i had 2 and a little rest skeins alpaca superlight and 

1 skein mohair luxe

and was stupid enough to think that this would be enough

for my walnuss without pleats....

one and 1/4 sleeve to go and i only have 5g left of my pink

alpaca superlight.....

i think now it's time to confess that i did my 

high-school diploma in mathematics(advanced level!)....hmmm

.....this long time ago i was the only one at my school,

who did it in combination with arts,

sounds weird, i know.

back to this sweet cardi.

the fit is good, i did the armholes only 17 cm long

and that's pretty good for me [as some of you said before, i

am tiny ;)] 2 sts less increased for the sleeves and 2 sts

less co at underarmsection

my cardi measures 36.5 cm from sleeve separation cause i did 

it without the pleats this time

now i have to dive into my stash and search for some leftovers

.........

i also have to think about a name for it....

have a nice weekend

isa k.

my babies...

sometimes noone trusts me when i tell that my cats are mad

mr. rossi [the red one] is like a beauty-queen

so, so beautiful, but not so smart at all :))

 and he is a very loud person, especially when he's hungry

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

tigger [the bigger one] can read our faces, i'm sure

he is our senior, this year he turns 11 [means 77 in cat years]

sometimes it feels like he carries all the bad of the world

on his tiny shoulders

isa k.

Reggie update

remember Reggie ?

today i have a few pics for you

yarn. cotton blend by ICE YARNS, 4 ply fingering weight

needles. 4 mm circulars

plain and simple topdown construction

with little keyholes

if there's a little spare time i'll try to write it out

have fun

isa k.