Tadaa...

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And here she is, our prima Ballerina, called 'Willemijntje'. She still has to get matching eyes (oops, it was a bit dark, so I gave her one blue eye and one brown eye, haha), but she'll be the perfect gift for Joshja from next door, who's turning 2 on Saturday!


And here the problem with my vintage sock... Somewhere in the middle I have to move stitches from the 'back' of the needle to the 'front, which of course is impossible without moving part of them to a second needle. I'll dig out a few dpns tonight and sort the problem.... As you can see, I'm just knitting them with plain green Fortissima Socka...

I also recovered some lost 'stash'. I just knew I had bought some more wool, but just couldn't find it anywhere and while clearing out the cupboard under the stairs and moving all my sewing stuff around, guess what I found... :-)))

In the meantime I've hung all the curtains up in the house (as if the builders hadn't finished over a MONTH ago, haha...), apart from in the kitchen, as I wasn't happy with the way those turned out and I'm either going to hang some organza or I'm going to knit those amazing curtains I saw in a magazine (Rowan 42, I think it was) at a SnB many moons ago...

Comments

Wendy said…
The ballerina is lovely! I've just recently learnt to crochet and got fascinated with making amigurumi and toys. Making a monkey at the moment for my "boy" ie my husband
October 12, 2007 at 9:19 AM
MoniqueB. said…
Wat een toffe ballerina zeg. Da's nog een heel werk geweest. Daar is J. vast heel blij mee.
Ik heb nog steeds niet in de gaten hoe 2 sokken op een rondbreipen werkt, voor Sockwars dat uitproberen heeft geen zin meer.
Ben je er al klaar voor?
October 12, 2007 at 2:53 PM
Jolanda said…
Wat een fantastische kleur groen!
October 14, 2007 at 10:45 AM
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