Eskariprojekti

läheltä piti, että olisin ehtinyt saada eskariohjaajien sukat valmiiksi jo kevätjuhliin, mutta sitten en kuitenkaan ihan jaksanut valvoa sitä tarvittavaa tuntia. Raskas viikko, ensin yh-päiviä muutama (mies työmatkalla) ja sitten vielä eskarin kevätjuhlien jälkeen kahtena iltana ulos juhlimaan - ensin työkavereitten kanssa kahden läksiäiset (meni vähän överiksi ollakseen torstai-ilta mutta kivaa oli) ja hiljaisen perjantaityöpäivän jälkeen entisiä naapureita tapailemaan.

Mutta tänään viimeistelin viimeistä sukkaparia (ei kuvaa, saunassa kuivumassa) ja sain kolme ekaa kuvattua. Katsotaan saisinko ne kuvat tähän, kuvalataukset ei oikein tahdo toimia tällä hetkellä...

No niin, tässä eka pari. Schachenmayer Regia Fluormania Color käytin kolmessa sukkaparissa neljästä. Tämä eka kerä oli lempparini.

Miesohjaajalle Fabelista "ASecond Chance for Mr. Rushworth Socks jostain Jane Austen Knits -lehdestä. Tarkoitus oli tehdä toiset sukat samasta lehdestä mutta niistä tuli jotenkin isot/ oudot. Onneksi, koska nämä ovat varmaan kauneimmat sukat mitä olen ikinä tehnyt. Olen todella tyytyväinen!

Ja kolmantena sukkaparina taas Fluormania-lankaa. Huomenna kun neljäs pari on kuivunut pitänee paketoida.

Seuraavaksi neulon sitten jotain aivan muuta. Eikun. Sukat edelleen puikoilla.

Hauskaa vappua!

Salainen neuleystäväni todella tietää, mitä lapsiperhe tarvitsee, ja sopivasti ennen vappumatkalle lähtöä saapui taas välimuistaminen:

Oikein metallihohtoisetkin! Tulossa käyttöön tänään.

Ja kun kerran täällä käy, niin näytänpäs vielä tämäkin, eli mitä on tällä hetkellä työn alla:

Puikot ovat muuten salaisen ystäväni maaliskuun paketista. Ihanaa neuloa näillä, muuten, kyllä puisetkin kelpaa! Tumman langan kanssa saattaa olla hankalaa, mutta näin vaalean langan kanssa juuri sopivat! Lanka on Fabel, ja ohje A second chance for Mr. Rushworth, jostain Jane Austen knits-lehdestä. Aivan ihana malli! Eikä edes ollut mahdoton oppia ulkoa, vaikka alussa siltä tuntui. Kuuluu projektisarjaan sukat-eskarihenkilökunnalle, katsotaan miten käy, noin puolet sukista tehtynä...

Tämä sukka lukeutuu muuten myös joukkoon "neuletyöt joista saa kommentteja tuntemattomilta". Siinä ryhmässä on ennestään vain revontuli-huivini, eihän suomalaiset turhaan kommentoi ventovieraiden juttuja. Tätä sukkaa olen neulonut paljon bussissa, ja tällä viikolla eräänä aamuna kun jäin bussista pois, niin yksi nainen tosiaan huomautti, että onpas kaunis sukka! Aah, tällaisena keväänä kun huolia on riittänyt, niin näitä ihania ihmisiä todella tarvitaan!

Got some balloons from my secret knitting friend for the festivities. And finished the first Mr Rushworth sock for one of DD's pre-school teachers. Love this pattern! (And love the knew dpn's I got from my secret friend in the March package too!)

September is here! Already! What happened?

Summer went by oh so fast. And I did not get much knitting done - first I had pneumonia and was too tired even to knit, then it was too hot to knit - oh yes, we had a really warm summer this year!

Anyway, summer ended, kids in daycare, DH and me working. Not much time for extras. Have actually had time to knit a little now, since I've had to stay home with sick kids a lot... sigh... Nothing big to declare, but a pair of mittens for DS as gloves with fingers may only be used at their daycare if the child can put them on himself.

I'm not a fan of easy quick projects, but after all, they usually are the most useful! Best thing with these: left and right mitt are identical, so when dressing the kid, I won't have the trouble of figuring out which is which.

Ended upp pretty small, I think - made size 3-5 years, and he just turned 3 and they're quite perfect size right now. Too small for my 5-year-old. Maybe my kids have big hands/long fingers?

Oh, and sorry about the last update/missing pic. Was supposed to be a bunch of Jane Austen Knits magazines. Love them! Do not love my phone's Blogger app.

Adventure, Warmth and a Mystery!

Oh dear, I'm actually here! And I have some knitting to report!!!!

But first some crochet, including one of my two reasons for not knitting so much the past year or two.

This young pirate friend of mine spent a couple of days as a fairy princess (a friend's birthday party + just for fun), after which she decided she was a pirate. Immediate need for Mom to crochet an eye patch, that is. Note the necklace, booty from mentioned birthday party.

Anyway, I've been knitting on these trousers for ages, but today I finally finished them! These are meant for next winter, fortunately, and they're huge, but knowing how fast this pirate grows, I think they won't be too bad in half a year or so.

Used Drops Nepal yarn, and adapted a pattern from the same source.

And to finish for today, a book thought from this morning. I really don't have much time for myself, and haven't slept properly for 1½ year, and when I finally have two minutes, THIS is what pops up in my mind:
In Pride and Prejudice it's Lady Catherine who tells Mr Collins that he should get a wife (nearly misspelled that as wifi - oops!).  Why? What made her want him to marry? What had he done? Had he been too friendly with servant girls in the village (unwelcomed of course, but still annoying). Or perhaps Mr Collins never really was interested in women ;-). My own guess is that he had showed some hopes to marry Lady Catherine's daughter, that stupid man... Or even more freaky; that poor girl was about to do something sílly and had to be stopped?

Vampires and zombies...

I finished Mr Darcy, vampyre by Amanda Grange the other night, and feel like commenting. Apparently there's a boom in horror adaptions of famous novels going on, and this was one of the books that jumped at me at the bookstore earlier this fall. This was an easy read, and I could finish it quite quickly, but, well, it's not a book that you need to read. As so many Jane Austen adaptations.
However, it did not mess up Elizabeth's and Darcy's characters as I know them quite as much as some books have, and I'm sure Catherine Morland would have liked this "horrid novel" with its castles and scary moments, but in the 21st centure we're a bit too blasé I think. (Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho is more fun by the way, this feels like a lame copy at points.)
I could not help comparing this book to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, that I read a couple of months ago - that book was absolutely crazy (I'm not entirely sure if it's crazy in a good or a bad way, I leave that for you to decide)! I think if you plan to massacre Pride and Prejudice you really need to do it thoroughly, that book was much more fun.
So to sum things up, this is an ok read, but nothing more. And the end was dull - it would have been much more fun to leave Darcy forever young, and write a follow-up when we meet him in 2011. But, well, someone probably wrote that book already too.

Adding a video for Finnish readers (my favorite Finnish Christmas song but may scare other than Finns since it's really weird). Merry Christmas everybody!