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This is a little bit how I feel.

Welcome 2011

Happy New Year!!!

I wish everyone a great start to the new year, may all your new years resolutions come true, except the ones that are not good for you. ;)

On Monday I will start blogging again after this very nice and calming vacation, though I have no idea how not to work, so while I have not spun anything I have knitted like crazy, new sweater on the way. :)

★ Christmas ★

God Jul!

Merry Christmas!

I hope you all have a calm and cosy christmas, and that you are enjoying lots of your favourite Christmas treats, this is mine; Cappuccino and a Lussekatt (a sweet bun, flavoured with saffron, shaped as a "cat?!").

Limelight

Some beautiful but sold yarns that never got their time in the limelight.

Blackboard

Under the Sea

Stained Glass

Ballet Slipper

Doomsday Winter

Aha, the doomsday winter is upon us again. And I don't understand why everyone is so surprised.  I was knitting long johns and buying a great big jacket long before anyone else understood.  I am not going to freeze in surprise any more winters. 

Wicked Witch of the West

My "knitted two at a time" socks are finished. I am very happy with the result and immediately started another pair in the same way, with the same pattern and a totally different yarn. A friend on Ravelry said that they reminded her of "Wicked, the life and times of the wicked witch of the west", a great book (and a musical, I understand) depicting the life and doings of the wicked witch of the west from "The Wizard of Oz". I have literally (ha ha) just finished that book a few days ago, what a coincidence, and I obviously had to name the socks after it. As we all know, Elphaba is as green as these socks. ;)

At my door

I love when the new wool arrives, and suddenly it has started arriving at my door from a truck instead of in my mail box, interesting, I have not started paying more postage or anything.  

When it has arrived I pour it all out on the kitchen table, then I divide the tops into more manageable pieces, 25 grams, and the happy puzzling begins. :)

Church Chairs

I have had a kitchen chair problem forever, never had a really good kitchen chair. I know what I like and Ikea just cant provide it! But my local church second hand store can!

I scored six of these very nice, heavy, well made and sturdy chairs from the seventies. I am very happy with my new comfy and broad chairs. :) 

(And yes I have played with Photoshop) 

 Crappy (but very beautiful) Ikea chair that just kept falling apart, now up for some kind of remaking, and probably new life outside.

Yarn Thursday

The batch for this week:

Synthetic Flavours

 Horror Movie 

 Frozen Vegetables (3ply)

 Camp Fire

 Storm

Still Hats!

Ok, hat number four: 

Can you actually have too many hats? Well, this one is in the very, very warm category, as in -10 to -20 degrees C, which I actually need living in Sweden. 

This is Alveare by Woolly Wormhead.

 I love the little ball at the end here, it is hollow! I was thinking of making a whole batch of them for christmas decorating.