Monday, 25 February 2019

Spoils of the trip and book recommendations

Hi there!
Cześć!

I've come back from one week away from home and brought back some beautiful yarn with me.

Wróciłam z tygodniowej podróży i przywiozłam ze sobą kilka pięknych motków.

Virgin merino wool, hand dyed:

Jagnięca wełna z merynosów, ręcznie farbowana:

Unfortunately I cannot recognise the colour name by the look of them as they came without labels and I kinda have hard time to assign the invoice with the product 😓 but I love those colours and can't wait to start using them. But not before I finish one of my WIPs... Fingers crossed it will happen before this weekend😏

Niestety, wełenka nie ma banderolek i nie jestem w stanie przyporządkować kolorów na podstawie faktury, nazwy nie są jednoznaczne 😓ale kolory są piękne i już nie mogę się doczekać kolejnej robótki. Ale najpierw muszę coś skończyc z mojej aktualnie rozgrzebanej góry "dzjeie się"... Mam nadzieję że się uda przed końcem tygodnia 😏

On the other hobbies topic, I finished two books when I was away. The first one a documentary about cosa nostra, my book was in German (practicing my language skills and, oh my, how I can say no to free book anyway?) but the original is in English, I believe. It shows the sicilian mafia since 19th century until 2006, highly recomend if the topic is interesting to you.

Zmieniając temat, skończyłam czytać dwie książki w trakcie tego krótkiego urlopu. Pierwsza to dokument o cosa nostrze, mój egzemplarz był po niemiecku (doskonalę język, a poza tym, kimże ja jestem żeby narzekać na darmową książkę?) ale oryginał jest angielski jak sądzę. Książka przedstawia dzieje od 19go wieku do 2006 roku, serdecznie polecam jeśli lubicie dokumenty w tej tematyce.
 The other one was in German too, I'm not sure if it is available in any other language but I highly recommend it too:

Druga książka też jest po niemiecku, nie jestem pewna czy była przetłumaczona na jakkolwiek inny język ale na pewno jest godna uwagi: 
 
Crime story taking place in Baden Baden. I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to another books by this author.

Jest to kryminał którego akcja dzieje się w Baden Baden. Czytanie sprawiło mi dużą przyjemność i już się cieszę na inne książki tej autorki.

Friday, 15 February 2019

Here we go again...

To answer my own question from the previous post - no, this cardigan won't ever be finished.

I died next skein of yarn. Even knitted one sleeve. Tried it on and guess what? This whole thing was too big by at least one size. As I don't plan do expand to the next level in this area. Ok, I thought, I have enough to make myself a nice boxy. I'll look nice in a boxy, everyone does, right? RIGHT? I kntted the whole body, top down, tried it on. I guess I'm the only exception to this "everyone" because I don't like the look myself in it AT ALL. Duh. I'm giving this project a bit of reting time and will think if I want to finish it anyway or it's destiny is in a frog pond.

Currently on my needles a top down reglan. I brought some rustic yarn from my trip to Estonia last year. It feels a bit itchy when knitted but I think I can wear it. I hope. I calculated everything for this sweater myself and have not big experience at it.

Of course it is not the only thing on the needles right now. I have shawl (there will be story in separete post), two pair of socks and some spinning in the pipelines.

Wednesday, 2 January 2019

Happy woolly New Year!

Hello in the New Year. All the best!

As for the cardigan from the previous post - not sure if it ever will be finished. The body is fone and I am (but of course) out of yarn. I have this much left:

Master Wu is providing the unit of measurement. Not much for 2 sleeves in size L, huh? As I hand-dyed it the chances I'll get same colour second time are minimal. I'm considering using another colour but I'm still not convinienced. I'm waiting for the yarn so I have a bit more time to think about it.

I finally finished spinning and plying some roving (strongly suspect it to be shetland). I started spinning it around September and abandoned the wheel for couple of months. I'm happy with the result:
It is quite rustic and should be good for a pair of nice vanila socks.