Frisian Frillies

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...

...can be a pain in the butt if you've devided the stitches the wrong way and have to fiddle with it to get the k2tog's en ssk's to work as they should... However, I've already got the pattern for the Child's French Socks in my head, so it should go fast as soon as I've redistributed the stitches... Also, Ballerina is crocheted! Now I have to put her together and give her a face and hair. Should definitely be ready for Saturday! I'll take some pictures tonight. Last night I was working until 11 to get some translations done. Bummer. Ach well, it pays the mortgage ;-)

Can someone please give me a kick up the backside and tell me to finish Ballerina before starting on fifty thousand new projects? It needs to be finished before Saturday 10 AM... Yesterday, I cast on for the Vintage Sock KAL. I decided to use green Fortissima Socka and make the mini version as I've only got one ball. I'm knitting them for wee H, and because I've only got one size 2.5 circs, I put the other pink socks on hold. Something good comes out of this, haha... Today, baby S turned into wee S. Such a big boy he already is! I already stopped seeing him as a baby two months ago when he started walking and spreading his mischief around a larger area, but still, a milestone nonetheless... Some piccies of last year and now: http://babylonia.nl/hannahs_diary/weblog.php . Can you imagine I pooped that one out in the middle of the night in about 40 minutes and without a midwife? Luckily big S was there to catch him! Unfortunately I haven't been knitting a lot for him, bec...