Snacktime....

...while blogging ;-)

Nom Nom Nom .... Gone!

Oohoh....did you want a taste??? *sniggers*

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Dated back post: "Eastereggs and "shawly" treats"

have a look, if you dare ... ;-D

Caught in a spider's web ...

  

Beautiful cobweb by Susan Ashcroft

Status Finished

Started April 20 2012

Completed April 23 2012 

 

Needle and yarn

Needles:

US 4 - 3.5 mm

US 6 - 4.0 mm

Yarn:

Dornröschen-Wolle Dornröschens Sockenwolle

How much?

1 skein = 459.0 yards (419.7m)

Colorway: handdyed black-violet

Color family: Black

a gift from niniflix 

 

 Notes

I really enjoyed this pattern! Definitely a “must knit” :-D
I used every gram of the 100 grams I had of this yarn.
Leftover about 4 inches of yarn ;-)

 

Rainbow TGV

Status Finished

Started April 16 2012

Completed April 18 2012 

 

Needle and yarn

Needle  US 4 - 3.5 mm 

Yarn:

Dornröschen-Wolle Sockenwolle mit Glitzereffekt

How much? 1 skein = 437.0 yards (399.6m)

Colorway :"Plakativer Regenbogen"

A gift from Dani

 

Notes

April 16th: started at about 11.30 pm .. this is going to be wonderful
April 17th: I think the “hem” is a tad tight … but I am not frogging!!!
 I hope washing and blocking will solve the problem
April 18th: finished!!

WONDERFUL!

April 19th: washed and hung up on the washing line…
and yes! the problem with the hem is solved  :-)

 

Happy 7th Blog-Birthday!

7 years ago I started this blog ... 

really?? huh?? 7 years?? 

7 years full of ups and downs and also some silence inbetween :-D

Happy Blogoversary, Melly's LacePlace! 

And may the next 7 years be full of bliss 

and with lots of nice memories to share here :-D

A special thanks to all of you, new friends and "old" friends, 

for staying put and reading my "brain-farts" ...LOL

Ich freue mich schon darauf ...

Nur noch 3 Wochen bis zum Wünsch-Dir-Was Ravelry-Gruppentreffen ...

 ich bin schon sehr aufgeregt :-D

Eastereggs and "shawly" treats ...

So there! 

No chocolate-eastereggs for poor Miss Melly this year, but instead ... 

and I have to admit, that this is soooo much better than chocs
(but *shshsh* don't tell my parents, who gave this "easter-treat" to me!)  ... 

I got a pattern!!! From my parents!!! Now how cool is that??? :-D

"A lovely and great and nice and pleasing to the eye" pattern ...

a shawl pattern! (oh!--oh!)

 - fellow knitters who really DO know me will be thinking: 
"A shawl pattern for Miss Melly? Well....good luck with that, it will never get finished" -

Not really being a shawl-knitter (and -wearer)  and also living up to that reputation
(abso-knitting-lutely sticking to that!)
I really do enjoy looking at all those really nice shawls and shawlettes
and scarfs and wraps and "knick-knacks" on various pattern-pages
and also have been caught putting them into my queue on Ravelry,
but only once in a while  seldom I really manage gathering the guts
and patience to knit one. - insert "like never" into this sentence without saying it loud ... lol .. -

But this one is different 
and it is bound to change something in my knitterly-life:

 Dubliner 

I did some stash-diving and found some yarn I liked  and could use for it

and started on April 9th...and had fun!!! I really did!!! :-D

After 5 repeats of the "body-chart"

Now how surprising is that?

I have to say: Not too surprising at all!!!

It IS a very nice pattern, completely reversible when finished
and the lace edgings and the cable-part of the shawl are bound to keep my "knitting-ADS" at bay ;-)

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT KNIT??? DEFINITELY!!!

And here we go....-whooping 4 days later- on April 12th:

HEUREKA! IT IS FINISHED!!

drying after washing - didn't block it, but instead chose to just pull it into shape and let it dry over night

FINISHED! dreary day, so no "outside" pictures:-(

I used about 130 grams of OPAL Cotton 4-ply Sockyarn and 3,5 mm circular needles.
I did 12 increase chart-repeats and 10 body chart-repeats and then 12 decrease chart-repeats :-D

And my Mum absolutely loves it! :-D

... so she says anyway ...

Happy Easter! :-D

New....

...blogdesign :-D

All made by me in my graphic-proggie....

hope you'll like it ♥

You know it is springtime...

... when blackbird-ladies come to take a sip of water in your garden 

and even "strike a pose" for you to take a picture:

Frida Kahlo...

... inspired Dagmar to design these wonderful fingerless mittens.

I was one of her pattern-testknitters :-D

They are called "with monkey" 

I used Regia solid 4-ply sockyarn and 2,5mm DPN's...

My daughter and I got so inspired,
 that we had a tremendous photoshoot "mittenwise"...

here are some outtakes:

and yes...this drawing is one of my daughter's drawings ... 

I requested a little lamb and she claims this is "Just a sketching, Mommy" ... 

okay then, can't wait to get the "real Mckoy" ... LOL

Make a wish...

... or just make two...

Make A Wish Socks - Option 2 Travelling stitches

68 stitches, size 41

Regia solid 4-ply "türkis"

"Make A Wish" Socks

 

Pattern: my very own "Make A Wish" Socks

Regia solid 4-ply Sockyarn, "Himbeere"

64 sts, Option1- Travelling Cables

size 38, DPNs 2,5 mm

Fly ...

Fly, my dear, above the rainbow into the sky ...

 fly high, my dear, and think of us from time to time....

fly, my dear, fly! We will always love you....

 

Freitagsfüller...

... da mach ich ja immer wieder sporadisch mit....sollte ich mal zur Tradition machen *gg*

Also dann...los geht's :

1.  Karneval ist in Augsburg fast nicht bis garnicht vorhanden...außerdem heißt es bei uns Fasching .

2.  Das Verhalten mancher Politiker finde ich schlichtweg schockierend.

3.  Unser Star für Baku geht mir am Bobbes vorbei.

4.  Ich habe mich heute über die Ankündigung lieben Besuches aus der Ferne gefreut  aber ebenso darüber, dass unser Kühlschrank nun keine "Futterwüste" (O-ton Mittelkind) mehr ist .

5.  Ich hab noch nie  Drogen ausprobiert *stolzbin*.

6. Ich habe eine neue Idee, mal sehen was daraus wird.

7. Was das Wochenende angeht, heute Abend freue ich mich auf Chatten mit lieben Freunden und stricken, morgen habe ich den Einkauf von Glühdingern für die Lampen geplant und Sonntag möchte ich nur Füße hochlegen und ausspannen !

Ich bin glücklich, weil ...

...dieses Elend hier Vergangenheit ist

  

und von dem Schönen hier gestern abgelöst wurde:

I.K.E.A. ist toll! 
Und meine Freundin Bettina, die mich dahingeschleppt hat, sowieso *grins*