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A Trip to Andorra

2005-12-27T16:46:00.000+01:00

We went to Andorra during Chrismas break and had a great time sking with the kids. The Andorra city is not very pretty. However, I found a yarn shop very close to the downtown packed with beautiful yarns. The owner of the shop is a nice old lady. She has lots of "Katia" yarns and I bought these beautiful mohair yarns.

More Books arrived

2005-12-21T20:01:00.000+01:00

More pattern books, that I ordered fromcelticove, arrived today. I saw "Birch" from this wonderful blog, and I would love to knit one for myself. The pattern of Birch is in Rowan Magazine no.34.

"Rowan Magazine Number 34"

I also ordered this book because I can get big yarns easily here in Barcelona. There are many easy, fun projects in this book.

"Rowan Big Easy"

Child's Rainbow Scarf from LMKG

2005-12-21T05:16:00.000+01:00

Finally, the Last-Minute Knitted Gifts book arrived. I had ordered the book since August. I love the book and started the "Child's Rainbow Scarf" right away. I used 2 skeins of different Noro Kureyon yarns, which I lost the label(bad bad me!!). I used 6.5 mm needles. It is a beautiful scarf and I think this kind of pattern is the best way to show off the wonderful colors of Noro Kureyon. It was a very fun project because you'd never know how it would turn out to be. It took me only 3-4 hours in total to finish this scarf.

"Oskar and his new scarf"

My very First Sweater

2005-10-24T12:53:00.000+02:00

I couldn´t wait any longer. Using my new Denise´s needles, I casted on the Lace Leaf Pullover from the Loop-D-Loop book rightaway. I did check the gauge for the first time!!!

But some how......... this half of the sweater became too big. -__-´

I decided to frog everything and start it all over again.

Wish me luck!

First half of my ex-first sweater

It's mine! It's mine!

2005-10-20T20:57:00.000+02:00

I have the Denise Interchangeable Needles Set in my hands!!! After the last meeting of Barcelona Knitting group, I was dreaming about this set of needles that Betty has. I ordered the set from Kangaroo,an Online shop in the UK. It arrived with in 7 days. Now I can do many more projects which need big size circular needle. I will start to make a sweater from the Loop-D-Loop book very soon.

Denise Interchangeable Knitting Needles

Inside. Ta Da!!!

Orlando's Hat

2005-10-18T19:34:00.000+02:00

I just made the Umbilical Cord Hat for my friend´s baby boy, Orlando. I made it with cotton yarn because they will move back to Thailand soon and it will be too hot with wool.

Orlando´s Hat

Pattern : Umbilical Cord Hat from Stitch'n Bitch book

Yarn : Katia Mississippi (60%cotton, 40%acrylic)

Needle size : 4.5 mm

How wonderful feeling I got when I saw him wearing it.

Cute as a button!!!

Cross-Hat-Ch and My So Called Scarf

2005-10-04T00:44:00.000+02:00

When I first saw this "My So Called Scarf" from here, I fall in love with the pattern and the yarn. Therefore, I ordered 2 skeins of the Manos del Uruguay from Knithappens The yarn is so soft and the colors are wonderful.

"My Love-At- First-Sight"

A Close up of colors combination

I followed the link from www.craftster.org and got the pattern of this wonderful hat just before she removed it from her blog. It took me a while to understand the pattern and somehow I finished with 6 stitches too many. -_- I just don't care. I love my hat and I can't wait for cold weather to come to Barcelona.

Cross-Hat-Ch

Yarn : Manos Del Uruguay color wild flowers

Needles size : 9 mm

Soon to be the Matching Scarf

Shanghai ,China

2005-10-03T23:35:00.000+02:00

Wow. I had been away for so long for the blog. It took me quite some times to find my way back to the regular routine after a very long vacation in Thailand. This Summer was special for me because it was the first time that I left my children with someone(my mother) and Nils and I went to Shanghai in the end of August. I couldn't stop singing "Just the two of us. Just the two of us, you and I " on the plane to China. We stayed with my best friend there and she showed us where to see, where to eat and where to go shopping. YES. YES YES. She took us to the Whole-Sale market, where we can buy things in dozens. It was HUGE!

Old Style Shopping Center in Shanghai

Whole-Sale Market

Look what I found in the market !!!

Knitting needles in wood. All size and all kinds. I bought all the size she has (about 20 pairs) and they cost 5 Euro in total!!

I should have bought more -__-'

In China, I saw many women knitting while walking on the street or talking with friends. I would love to see their works but they were quite shy ,especially when they saw me coming with a big camera.

A lady knitting sweater at the ancient city

Another lady walking and knitting at the same time. She is using very long dbl point needles for this green sweater

More pictures will be soon put in my other blog.
Shanghai at night

"Handbook of Knitting"

2005-07-12T03:01:00.000+02:00

My Mother-in-law gave me this book. It was the book she used in knitting class at school in 1953!! There are lots of cute classic designs and the detail of how to make sock.

Handbook of Knitting

1953!!

A cute baby pants

Back from Sweden with YARNs !!!!

2005-07-05T01:47:00.000+02:00

I just got back from Sweden. It was nice and colder than in Spain so we slept like a baby during the night. I found the very nice yarn shop in the city of Gothenborg just 5 minutes walk from my in-law's apartment. The owner is very kind and helpful. She has lots of beautiful yarns from Norway. She also has Noro yarns. I bought so much. Way too much!! They are so beautiful in both color and texture. I bought Silk-wool yarns, Alpaca yarn(super soft!) and dbl point bamboo needles in the size that I can't find in Barcelona. She doesn't have many sock yarns yet because it's still summer. I bought some but they are quite thick.

Too lovely to resist!!

Silk-Tweed

Yummy Alpaca

Silky Wool by Elsebeth Lavold

The new Project for Oskar

2005-06-29T09:07:00.000+02:00

We are going to Sweden today. I'm dreaming about a nice yarn shop with lots of sock yarns. Last night, Oskar came to me and said that he want me to knit him something. He gave me this sketch. This will be a challenge for Mommy!!

The Sketch of Chigmon

I taught Oskar to knit and he said that it's very relaxing.

Off jump Jack!!

Back to Clapotis

2005-06-28T07:57:00.000+02:00

Get back to work on Clapotis! I just finished Section 2(Increase Rows) and started Section 3(Straight Rows). The magic began in row 8 of this section. THE DROP STITCH!!! It 's so scary but really fun.

"Increase Rows and some Straight Rows"

A close up of drop stiches

Bunnie needs a dress

2005-06-24T08:57:00.000+02:00

I had to stop my Clapotis project because Carina said that Bunnie needs a dress and shoes. I just made up this dress pattern. The shoes turned out to be ballet slippers. Carina seems to like it and I'm sure that Bunnie likes it too.

"Bunnie-lerina"

Start Clapotis

2005-06-20T10:48:00.000+02:00

This is a fun pattern to knit. I wonder what it 's gonna look like after the drop stitch section. I love the yarn. The color is really my color. While I'm knitting this, I think about the next one with other color already. Bad! Bad! Bad!

"1 day old Clapotis"

New Yarns from BarceLana

2005-06-18T17:16:00.000+02:00

I took the kids and hubbie to the yarn shop, Barcelana. The yarns in this shop(and the ladies in the shop!) are from Argentina. Today, I bought this cotton-silk blend to make Clapotis from Knitty.

Cotton and silk blend

Also got this silk-wool blend for 2nd Shower-Basket Shawl. I think it's a nice green color.

"the future Flower-Basket Shawl no.2"

Flower-Basket Shawl no.1

2005-06-08T17:42:00.000+02:00

Finally, I finished my first ever lacey shawl. It's a "Flower-Basket Shawl" from Interweave Knits MagazineFall 2004 I use the silk-wool blended yarn bought from Barcelana yarn shop. The yarns from this shop are imported from Argentina. I love this pattern so much that I may make another one very soon.

"The yarn"

"The Egg Carton!!!!! Before block"

"Flower-Basket Shawl no.1:After block"

Knitty Branching out

2005-05-22T23:35:00.000+02:00

This is a very nice scarf from Knitty, called Branching out. I used Rowan Kid haze color medew for the green one and a local cotton yarn for the pink one (Mom's BD present) I always made mistake at row 7. I would not recommend knit this scarf while watching TV :-(

Branching Out Scarves

"Reach for the sky"

"Branching out # 3"

More first projects

2005-01-31T09:10:00.000+01:00

Pictures of more FOs during that period

แม่เอื้อย พยายามจะทำ drop-stitch เป็นครั้งแรก แต่ได้ ผ้าพันคอ คันๆ น้องพิณ ใส่แค่ถ่ายรูปแล้ว บอกว่า คันคอ ไม่เอาอีกเลย แม้ว่า จะเป็นสีโปรด

"The Itchy Scarf"

"Strawberry Hat"

A bit too small??

This year, we had snow in Barcelona for 1 day in March.

"Adults-only devil Hat"

from Stitch'Bitch book by Debbie Stoller

Even fit Tiffany!!!!

The Very First FO

2004-12-30T20:57:00.000+01:00

ใครที่ผ่านมาเจอบล็อกนี้ คงต้องขอให้ทำใจนะ เพราะเรา นี่ ช่างเชย ล้าหลังซะจริงๆ กว่าจะโหลดรูปมาใส่ได้ แทบจะล้มเลิกความตั้งใจ บล็อกนี้ตั้งใจว่าจะเขียนเกี่ยวกับงานอดิเรก ที่เพิ่งจะหัดทำได้ไม่นาน แต่ชอบและสนุกกับมันมาก งานอดิเรก ที่ว่านั้นก็คือ การถักนิ๊ตติ้ง เขียนบล็อกนี้ เพื่อที่จะได้ จำได้ว่า ถักอะไรไปบ้าง

I just taught myself to knit from the book for children and from the internet in December, 2004. The first FO that I made is this bunny for my little girl, Carina. Bunny's pattern are from the book called "Kids Knitting" by Melanie Falick. It's a nice book with lots of cute patterns and contains almost everything for you to get start from the introduction of knitting to the first sweater project.

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