yeah

And I bought the “happy hooker”-crochet book from bokkilden.no the other day too, haha. I’m hoping I get it before leaving for Stavanger in two weeks, so I have something to do on the train.

 

Sunday, walking

Yep, today took a LONG walk. 7,5km, which is about 4,5 miles. I walked for an hour and 45 minutes, and I’m pretty tired now. It was nice though, haven’t walked there in at least a year. But since my legs aren’t that fit, I think I’ll feel it pretty much tomorrow, hah.

Also, yesterday I finally finished my scarf. I had to buy another skein of the thread, and I was just maybe 4 meters short, hah. Renate wanted one for her birthday, because it’s so soft She said it felt almost like her polish rabbit (hermelin) to her neck

So, pictures of the scarf and of where I walked

 

a new Thursday :)

And I wasn’t at work today. Plus, I’m borrowing my grandfather’s car again, until Sunday. Therefore, I went to “downtown” for a short while. There, I got some grayish yarn. Eyelash yarn as it’s called. 100% polyester, and really soft. So I was going to make a scarf of it, using a tutorial found in a Norwegian ordinary week magazine. I’ve now worked on it for 4-5 hours today, and I’m probably about 1,5 hours away from finishing it, since It’s a skinny scarf. But my fingers started to hurt, and I want to get out of the house a little bit, so I’ll finish it tomorrow, or maybe before I go to bed tonight.

So this is just a post, showing that I haven’t gone all dry with crafts, just almost Because I’ve been kind of apathetic lately, and haven’t really been wanting to do anything.. Oh, well, it’s better now!

Here’s the pictures of the yarn skein and the finished part of the scarf.
(colors are a bit off):

 

work + crocheting :)

Yep, that’s mostly what I did today. Got up at 08.00. Biked to work, started at 10.00, and had to work an ekstra hour until 19.00, which sucked but atleast I get some extra for working after 18… Then I biked REALLY fast home, because I had gotten a message from my mom that it was dinner in 15-20 minutes. When I got home, all i did was eat that dinner and then jump into the bath tub. After getting out of there, I checked the regular pages on the internet and then started a new granny square Finished that, and joined it with the last one. I’m getting better at it now, hehe.

Now it’s 23.08, and I’m heading off to brush my teeth, since I’m going to work at 09.00 tomorrow

here’s the joined granny squares:

 

city + crocheting

Today was this week’s day off work. Which means I’ll be working tomorrow and Saturday, but next week will be grrrreat (free on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday )

Because I spent much of last night looking at pictures of “Babette Blankets” link, I had to go downtown today to get some yarn and a new crochet hook (because my old one is somewhere in all my crafting stash, and I don’t feel like looking for it, lol. plus it’s too small) This new was of bamboo, and is really nice! I also bought cotton yarn in light yellow, orange and red. And was going to learn myself how to make granny squares. I do have a crocheting book, in Norwegian, so I could learn the basics. And there was also a recipe for a granny square. It wasn’t quite the one I’d seen on the internet, but I thought it was best to start with the original recipie. That being said, I must confess it didn’t turn out very well, haha. Atleast not in the middle, before I started understanding how it worked.

So after being finished with the first, I tried again. This time I wanted to try making a more solid (like those I saw on the internet), and it worked out pretty well too. Without any recipe, so I’m pretty proud actually. The only bad thing is that it got a little wonky. So I’m thinking it might be best to stick with the first one, with more holes, so it stays more flat. Anyway, it’s just practice..

first try:
you can see how ugly it is in the middle,haha. And then I started to understand what I was doing around the end.

second try:
It’s easy to see I already had gotten more practice

Finally, a picture of my new sweater bought on vero moda.
I thought I coud take a picture of that too, while I was on it, hehe.