Subdued

To do : more sewing - a few things for the girls...
Doing : reading Ishiguro's moving debut Pale view of hills.
Done : 'subdued' socks , and with these the sock mojo is all back :)
Socks are plain awesome to knit,
don't let anyone tell you any different.
knitted socks are always just a weesome tricky
now that equals fun cause
where's the hoot in easy?

Zeste

Noor's new cardi. In soft alpaca. Lemony but not sour. Sweet and spunky. Zesty!
In Ravelry : the tech hum, and on Flickr : more mademoiselle in it. 
The dress is an oldie that I made for Lieveke, rather a gorgeous hand-me-down I think.

-Lies

Catching light

My last few projects have all been about catching the game that light plays - on walls, through holes, on vibrant and fluffy textures or airy and subdued ones. It's winter here now, and things are a bit darker and a bit glummer, maybe that's why I need to touch on light...

There is Lumen : my beautiful second knitted cardigan this year, worked in a record mere two weeks, with soft and feathery Tosh merino light, a favorite for sure.

And then Salvia : a little fingerless mitts present for my fiery red head actress friend. Made in a couple of days and a good stash buster at that.

More photo's through here and Ravelry details here and there.

Hope you have a nice and light weekend

-Lies

Light/shadow

I've been away from the blog for a bit.

Not by lack of want...

I have been Florence Nightingale-ing the loved ones.

Snotty noses a la carte.

Sweet husky voices.

Little cries at night.

Warm tears.

Lots of cuddles.

Even for the sick manchild (smc).

I have lots of things to make though

I made this (Askew) - which ended up wrapped around the smc's neck, -he likes (!)

and can't wait to finish

this (Lumen)

and this (Kakomu)

but

all in good time,

that's

how it

is.

I hope you are keeping well

-Lies

Happy.

I've been making lots and lots of late,

-a cashmere cardi for Noor and

-a supersoft superblue scarfwrap for myself.

Making lots more too, but I can't keep up photographing it all...

My two best ever projects,

-Lieveke (now 5) and

-Noor (now 2)

happily and colourfully celebrated their birthdays con brio.

It all goes too fast.

And luck was my friend all through the week :

after winning the pattern for her new design Kakomu,

I got a massive giftparcel from Kirsten,

crammed with beautiful things,

one of them a stunning scarf in a limey chartreuse,

which happens to be my favorite colour.

The colour of kindness.

The colour of gratitude.

Happy Easter all!

-Lies

Catch up

We all had a tummy bug we did.
Now we mending.
A few things to report :
- i have a winding thingy now
- Lieveke is nearly five and we are doing school visits!
- I made these fingerless gloves for my friend Emily's birthday (on Ravelry)
- Noor really really likes the sheepy
- always have a rainbow in the house.

Hope you are well
-Lies

Holes

People, no more knitting holes.
It was very philosophic and all, but...
the Swiss cheese sarf was the oldest and longest of my unfinished projects.
I cast it off last night and I feel light.
Although it is very beautiful it was a somewhat lengthy exercise with very fine yarn and rather small needlesize. Oh so good to have it finished. Yodel-a-ee-tee (indeed, a cheesy Swiss pun).
More dramatic pics of scarf : here and here
Ravelry details here.

And hey I also finished a most perfectly simple hat and some very complicated socks :)
the Rikke hat : pic and Rav.
the Samourai socks : pic and Rav.



Happy weekend
-Lies