Frisian Frillies

Yes, finished and on my feet! Trying to get some work done now and this afternoon our car is getting MOT'd. (wish our little Astral beauty good luck...)

Yes, I've succumbed again... I so enjoyed knitting the Mystery Stole, that I've joined the Secret of the Stole group on Yahoo for another KAL. This time it will be a soft pink (o no, not pink AGAIN...) stole, hopefully with beads (as I now know where to get them...). So that makes my autumn/winter programme as follows: Sept 30 - finished: Mitten Exchange Oct 5 - Nov 23: Secret of the stole Oct 14 - RIP: Sock Wars I've also got orders outstanding for some kiddy and baby mitts, scarves and hats. Guess that's going to keep me busy for a while... :-) My KDDB socks are nearly done. Bit busy with work these days, so not a lot of knitting time (grrr)...

Yeah, my first KDDB sock is done! Here it is... Tadaaaaaa... Very pleased with the result, and I guess the second sock will go super fast. Stupid thing is I should have knitted two socks at the same time, cause it took me for-e-ver to find the right spot to cast on for the second sock. Ach, well, live and learn... Nice to finish the sock last night after a difficult day with the funeral. But we all got through it and it was good. Right, back to work!

I have finished the Kort door de bocht (KDDB) socks up to the heel. I've actually done three repeats, cause I wanted the socks a bit longer. It turns out that with the Trekking XXL striping I get two stripes per repeat, which looks quite cute. Very pink though, just what I like. Now I need some crocs to wear them in, but I guess the season for crocs is really over... :-S Finally managed to drag my feet towards the camera and take some pictures. Here are my finished Online socks, just plain stockinette. They do sag a bit, and the striping is not as nice as I had envisioned it, but they sure are comfy...

We're back from the black hole left by the stole. I'm now working hard on the 'Kort door de bocht'-socks for the Dutch sock knitting-KAL and halfway sock nr. 1. On Friday I'm going to exchange the remaining yarn of the stole for a skein of Vivaldi Cerise to start on the fingerless gloves we (the Frisian SnB group) are knitting for the National Stitch 'n' Bitch day. Whatever is left will be transformed into a Mimosa scarf and then I've also got Oriel planned, a high neck 'blouse'... Enough to keep me busy! Saartje, so nice to finally meet you in the flesh! And Lotte is soooooooo cute. It makes me want to have another wee girl! Hard to imagine mine was that small 4 years ago... And in a month's time baby S will be celebrating his 1st birthday. Time flies (sigh... but I'm going to stay 25 forever, whatever the official documents say :-)))