Knitters Coffee Swap 4

Here is a pic of my wonderful package. I got it last week. Sooo many wonderful things in it. Here they are:



The sock yarn is great. I love Socks that rock, but it isn't easy to get here. And than a skein from the Sock Club is much greater. And the little one is sooooo cute. The brownies have been yummy. Thank you again.

Secret Pal package

I totally forgot to post a picture of my wonderful Secret Pal package, what I received a little time ago. Thank you my Secret Pal for the wonderful package. Here you can see what I got for wonderful stuff.

Amazing Lace Swap on Ravelry

Today I got my wonderful package from the Amazing Lace Swap on Ravelry. My swappie but in soooooooo many nice things. The wool is so greatful. She also put in three great patterns. I'm sure that I will knit soon one of the shawls with the wool. See what I got.

Socks nr. 6+7 / 2009

Here are the socks of the last week. At the moment I'm really fast in knitting the socks. The patterns are from Knitting with handpainted yarn. In the book are many nice patterns.


This is the Potpourri pattern. The wool is from Drachenwolle. The yellow looks better in real, the weather wasn't good to make photos.


And this is the Schooner pattern, I don't make the knots on it, as I don't like them. The wool is from Tausendschön and was the unicum from January, called "Drei Könige"

KCS4 Questionary

QUESTIONS:
1. Whole bean or ground?  Grounded coffee
2. Fully-loaded or decaf? Fully-loaded for sure
3. Regular or flavored? Like more regular ones
4. How do you drink your coffee? With a little bit of milk, no sugar
5. Favorite coffee ever? Oh this is a hard question. There are so many good ones. I like Columbian blends or Costa Rica, but also the others are good.
6. Are you fussy about your coffee or will any old bean do? Not that fussy, but the bean should not be soooooooo old
7. Favorite treats to have with your coffee? I like brownies, cookies and toast
8. Anything else about your coffee preferences? I like medium roast coffee, not too dark one
9. Yarn/fiber you love? I like merino wool, any handpainted sock wool, any soft wool is great
10. Yarn/fiber you hate? I only don't like 100% acryl and scratchy wool
11. What's on your needles? Mostly socks and shawls or scarfs
12. Favorite colors? Orange, light colors, autumn colors, red, 
13. Allergies? no importants for this swap
14. Anything you really love, really don't like, or just need to get off your chest? I like things who are typical for the region my swap partner lives, I like postcards from there. I hate dark colors. I love my cats and my horse. :-) 

Fiona in the snow

Here are some pics of Fiona in the snow. They taken at the wonderful winter weather we had some weeks ago, now it is only cold, but now more snow longer.

Socks nr. 1 - 5 / 2009

Here are the first socks of the year. As it is going better with my hand, knitting is fast as before. Three of the pairs are ready at the last week, as I watched Biathlon at TV.

This are for my brother, they are knitted with Opal 6ply called Tiger.


This are for me, in size 40, knitted with Tausendschön yarn. The pattern is the Faceted Rib pattern from The little box of socks


This socks also, and also the others who will follow, knitted for me in size 40. The yarn is from Drachenwolle and the pattern is Maelstrom from Cookie A.


The wool is from Drachenwolle and the pattern is Basket Checks socks from the little box of socks.


The wool is from Drachenwolle and the pattern is the Rib Fantastic Sock from Knitting socks with handpainted yarn

Secret Pal package nr. 2

Yesterday I received a wonderful envie from my secret pal. Here it is.



A cute sheep, a stitch-safer with my name, and some cacao to drink. Thank you much for the nice stuff.

Pics from Berlin

Here are the promised pics from Berlin. It was a very nice time there.

Happy New Year

I'm back from three wonderful days in Berlin. It was cold and my feeds are burning :-) We had wonderful weather, so we do some nice things. I will post some pictures the next days. My hand is better now.

Now I wish you all a happy and wonderful New Year. That all your wishes comes true.

Merry Christmas

As I believe that I wouldn't have time tomorrow to post, I'll do it today. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Hope you all have nice and peaceful holidays.



I cannot knit at the moment, because on Sunday I would make the dessert and make a big cut in my left hand. I went to the hospital and they made three stitches :-( What a pain when the doctor set the anesthesia. So now all things getting a little bit slower, as I can only use my right hand.

New Color

Today I went to the coiffeur as I want to cut my hair. When I sit in the chair, I decided that a new color would be good for the hair. And here are the result

Not the best picture, but with this grey weather and take a picture alone, a better one wasn't possible.

Snow and no snow

Yesterday we got a little bit of snow, but today all is away and only rain is falling. I would like more snow, not this dark and rainy weather.

First secret pal 13 package

Today I got a wonderful package from my secret pal. Here are all the great stuff that I got.


The sock yarn looks funny, never seen that before. Thank you soooo much for all the nice stuff.

New socks

This are the socks of the last week. This is for me and as ever, in size 40, the wool is from Drachenwolle.


I love the orange in this wool

And this pair is for my husband in size 44, the wool is from Tausendschön.

Swaps arrived

Today was a great Swap day, as I got two packages full of wonderful stuff. The first one was from the Amazing Lace Swap from Ravelry. I got a great package from Singapore, with all this nice stuff you seen on the picture. The wool has all the colours I like on it.



And the second one was also from Ravelry, from the Coffee and Chocolate swap. Both things that I love that much. Here is the photo with the great stuff. The wool looks great and the chocolate sounds yummy. Also all the other stuff is great. The mug looks so nice and the angel is sooo cute.

New pair of socks

This are my latest socks, they are for me. The wool is from Drachenwolle and the pattern is the Diamente pattern from Knitty.

Secret Pal 13

I got my pal some hours ago and write to her soon. I had a look at her blog and it seems that we will have much fun at this round. I love this kind of swap. My Secret Pal 12 partner was Karin from Germany and I hope that I was a good partner for her. It was fun to send her the packages.

My latest socks

Here are the socks of the last weeks. They are all for me and in size 40.


This is knit with Socks that rock in plan right


This is made with Opal sock yarn and a pattern from here.


The wool is from Tausendschön and the pattern is from Little box of socks.


The wool is Drachenwolle and the pattern is the Slippery Socks from Knitty

Still alive

Cannot believe that time is flying that fast and I haven't post for such a long time. We have now late at night and I should sleep, but we just returned from a wonderful concert and I cannot sleep now. We have seen the great German group Ich + Ich and Frankfurt. It was a very great concert and I want to see it again. Maybe we will make a trip to Berlin and the end of December and see them again.
What happened at the last weeks? The greatest mirage was that our cat returned. It was two weeks ago, when she stand behind my husband at one morning. He thought he don't see right, but she was it. So she returned after 10 weeks of been away. We hadn't believed that she will return. We more thought that she was dead, with her illness and all what going one. For the first days, she only slept and ate much. She lost some weight, but now she is at a good way and make it better from day to day. You all can believe that I was the happiest person in the world at this day.
At the end of September we celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. We went to Stuttgart at this day and visited the Wilhelma zoo. Was a nice day, with good weather. The other days at this week had much of rain. My husband had one week off from work I must say, and so the bad weather wasn't that nice.
I'm still knitting around. I will post some pictures of my socks later. Here are the newest photo of our cat Tiffy. She was very dirty when she came home.