Green!
Pattern: Vogue Knitting Holiday 2007
Yarn: Garnstudio Eskimo color no 25.
Needles: 9mm.
As my blogging has been lieing down for so long I have a few wintery projects to show. This one I believe I finished just after Christmas. I'm really satisfied with it and have used it a lot before it got to warm. I love the color! Can it get more green? The only problem is that it's the color of the football team in southern Stockholm while I cheer for the black and yellow team AIK here in northern Stockholm. ;) The top picture is taken at home with the camera on the ironing table and my assistant in one of his favourite places in the house while the second one is a piece of a rather confused group picture just showing that you can wear nicer clothes to it than stay-at-home-mom-jeans.

Granny's valuables (part 2): I took these pictures in October after cleaning out the attic at my parent's in Oslo. My grandmother made these for me in the late 70's. She was a tremendous knitter, and it was she who had the time and patience to teach me. A piece of her still lies within every project of hers. My baby boy has grown a lot since I took these pictures, so I'm not sure that the garments will fit him when the time and temperature come again. The three months that have passed since I last posted something here is partially due to our boy being so active and wearing out two adults per day. The only chance we have to 'get something done' is after his bedtime. There are however both some finished and progressing projects I plan to present here.

Pretty girl in a pretty dress:
Fabric: Josef Frank Mirakel and a piece of cerise.
Pattern: Baby Cool.
I finished this dress already in november, so I'm lagging behind in my updating. Anyhow, as I wrote earlier, a friend of mine had a small piece of the Josef Frank fabric left over, and with such a beautiful fabric you wouldn't want to waste anything. Fortunately she has a little girl whos three weeks older than my boy, and for her it was possible to make a garmen out of the smallest piece. I bought the pink fabric to make an entire dress. The Baby Cool book has really good patterns for inexperienced tailors like me and can absolutely be recommended. It has step-by-step photo illustrations, so I believe you would like it even if you don't read Swedish.

New gift jacket: My little boy has received this wool jacket as a gift from his grandma. It's knitted on wery fine needles, 2.5mm I think. Its gorgeous! Fortunately it will fit a while, unlike my projects which usually are too small when I finish them. Reseting the timer on the stove is a favourite activity, the numbers flash and sometimes there are beeping sounds too. There is some progress in my own work too, the green VK-top is finished, a fleece jumpsuit for my baby is finished and the Josef Frank dress was finished a long time ago. I do only needs a pearl on the back to indicate up and down and I've started a new VK project on needles 15mm. Reports will turn up eventually.

Phew! I haven't disappeared. We went to Norway for Christmas and skiing, but our luggage didn't. On Christmas eve I had to go shopping for all kinds of necessaries. Fortunately our skis arrived before the skiing course I gave my husband for Christmas started. Since we came back home a week ago my husband has been in bed with fever, and I've been running between a small boy who crawls around and either falls himself or makes everything around him fall down, and a slightly bigger one who has needed a lot of support. There hasn't been much time for hobbies, and its now I really need a vacation! Happy new year, by the way! :D

Vogue Knitting is a hopeless case: Since I paid my VK-subscription in January/February I have received the fall issue and then the holiday issue twice. The subscription should cover 4 issues, but now, when I've really only received 2, they sent me a letter that my subscription ended and that I had to pay up by sending my visa card number or a cheque. For security reasons I would never send my credit card number in the mail. Then I suddenly received a letter saying:

'Thank you for your recent order. We followed your instructions to make payment with your credit card. However the information was not complete and we were unable to process the card payment. To avoid further delay, please return a check [...]'

I have not asked them to make any withdrawal from my card. Is it really possible that they have kept my credit card information since the last time I paid via the internet to use it several times? Fortunately the card I used the last time was physically broken so I had it closed down. Anyway I'm quite chocked over the terribly low level of the VK subscription services.
Still my VK top is progressing, and when I tried it on my husband thought I should leave it without sleeves. What do you think?

Pretty boy in shag sweater:
Yarn: Crystal Palace Shag, no 7197, 3 skeins.
Pattern: From my own head. Raglan, no more, no less.
Needles: 6.5 mm.
My baby has a new sweater and its so warm! He rides around his pram in it and a fleece overall and one day he was so warm that his hands were all sweaty. It works well for dancing to the rythm of the washing machine too. Who needs a TV anyway?

Small, fun and timeconsuming things: I'm now on Ravelry where I can be found as CamillaS. I don't know how much time I'll put down there, but please be my Ravelry friend! I've also updated my blog script and added the list over frequent commenters to the right. What do you think about that? Both script updating and blog commenting can be really time consuming too.

Granny's valuables (part 1): Another few things from cleaning up the attic in Oslo. The box of buttons and the I'cord-knitter (no idea what it's called in English) all date back to the 20's or 30's. I've made several meters of I'cord on this one and experimented with using several colors to make stripes and spirals when I was about 10-12 years. The box is in itself an antiquity, and its fun just to look at the buttons inside.

Things I did a long time ago: I've had visitors from Norway again, its very nice but leaves little time for blogging. Some time ago I mentioned that I was in Oslo clearing up my parents' attic before they were moving. I found enough things I have made to fill an entire box, but haven't been able to bring so much back to Stockholm yet. Aren't the baby booties cute! I made them in school around 5th or 6th grade. Unfortunately my baby has already grown out of them. I'm also amazed over my patience with the pearl dolls which are from the same period. The colors speaks of a mix of childish taste and late eighties. My husband thinks they are so terribly kitch, so I've put them on display in a bookshelf next to the computer and not in the living room. They've been there for more than a month now and he hasn't complained, so I don't think he has noticed them. What can you say, he's only a man. ;) That's what we love them for, isn't it?

VK sweater on it's way: I have bought yarn for a top from the last VK. When you swap one yarn for another it's always difficult to tell how much you'll need even though you calculate the required number of meters, so the yarn store has put away another skein for me for two weeks. My ambition is to finish this before that, which is theoretically possible on 9mm needles. I'll show which top I plan to make another time. It is also the one week of the year to display the (silly) halloween stuff, so I have to do it while I have the chance!

Yarn club-yarn in progress: I've started a free style project with some Crystal Palace Shag from the Strikk Innom yarn club. I've just measured up another baby sweater and am knitting from that. I started on a round needle 6.5 but didn't have dpns for the sleeves, and in the store they told me half number needles above 6 didn't exist when they didn't have them in stock. Fortunately I knew better and went to another shop where I got my first bamboo needles. They're great, the stitches slide well but not off.

Not completely forgotten: Here's another 4 tunisian crochet patches, just 4 more to go before I can finish the blanket. My baby is waking up just now, so that's the end of blogging today.

'I do' is being blocked! I'm excited to see what will come of this and am a bit more optimistic now than rigth after I had finished it. It's a pity though that its 10 degrees and cloudy outside. The carpet shows that this is the room which is going to be the babys room real soon. If the baby is having a bad night the parent who needs the most to sleep does it in this bed, so I really hope he'll sleep well tonight! It hasn't really been a problem so far, this bed has only been in use a handful times.

Any comments? I just discovered that there were comments more than a month old awaiting moderation. I had accidentally shut off the e-mail notification function and now I had started wondering whether I had no visitors at all. Anyhow it was wery nice reading all the comments now! :D

To Ravelry or not to Ravelry? There is so much about Ravelry everywhere so I've signed up too. If it turns out to be nothing more than a knitting facebook I think I'll pass, I don't see the point of hanging out with my real life friends on the internet where it's not in private and I'm also afraid that it might be a big black hole to throw lots of time into. I'll check it out as soon as I've come through, I'm number 14805 in the line right now.

Autumn in the pram (part 2):
Yarn: Sandnes Sisu Fantasy, color 6156, 25g.
Needles: 2.5 and 3 mm.
Pattern: An old Sandnes catalogue. Mittens, no more, no less.

My baby was getting cold hands in the autumn chill and I had some left overs from a yarn I used for knitting mittens for his cousin several years ago. Her parents have been so pleased with those mittens, so I had to make a pair for my boy too. The yarn is wery soft and warm and I like the colors a lot. My picture of the colors are actually better than the one at Sandnes.