teakkk

Monday, September 20, 2010

Shawl number ? I´ve lost count!

This is the latest shawl... the pattern is Semele by the awesome Åsa...

the yarn is Posh yarns Helena, gorgeous cashmere

and the model is my little one Minerva, who is growing SO fast!

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

September/October Figs

No more dark figs, now it is time for the sweetest, softest ones!
These fill our trees until early November, if we don´t get a terrible storm before then.

Today is the last day of Minerva´s summer vacation... Matteo started yesterday!

Thursday, September 9, 2010

FIGS

A fig that has not been picked in time...

Figs that are ready to be eaten...

Another kind of fig...called prickly pear in english..

Prickly pears ready to be eaten!

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Summer in Helsinki

My new background on my Macbook! I can smell summer in Helsinki in this photo...

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Meat-pie, salad and my eleventh shawl this year!

Excellent meatpie, a beautiful green salad with red onion and ...

A new shawl!!!!! Aurora fell in love with my friend Tuulia´s and I happened to have the right yarn!!!

It´s Revontuli from Ulla, a finnish net magazine!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

August 23rd

Yesterday was my birthday.... and this was my cake...

And this wonderful letter came in the mail...

A handmade handkerchief, old 20 finnish marks

and a lovely letter written on handmade paper!

The money is from 1945 and signed by... my grandfather!

Turning 27 is not so bad! =)

Friday, August 20, 2010

More shawls...

Shawls... my Daybreak II was started

on the day before leaving Finland...

good travel knitting...and I finished it

four days later!!! Not bad... =)

It is made with lovely thick Abuelita Merino Silk using

size 6 needles.

Then there is a scarf/shawl that I finished before

Finland, Summit from Knitty, using Posh Yarns

wonderful cashmere... my mother took this as soon as

she saw it! =)

Another Summit is on the needles already (great carry-along knitting)

and there has been a lot of spinning... more on that later...=)

Vacation in Finland is over...

It was fun...

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

OHOH!

I forgot!!!! This is also a shawl from this year... Citron in Colinette Jitterbug, and ofcourse this is Aurora's shawl! =)

Monday, June 14, 2010

On Saturday Princess Victoria of Sweden is getting married... Minerva decided to send a drawing to wish them all the happiness in the world!

So today she drew a cat... and sent it of to Stockholm, with good wishes from Minerva and Oliver!

And I managed to photograph a Opri hat my Mari Muinonen that I made for a friends daughter's 17th birthday present. It is in a fresh bamboo/cotton yarn...

Look at her hair!!! How she can stand it in this heat is absolutely beyond me! =)

Sunday, June 6, 2010

This year's shawls so far...

The first shawl of this year was started in Finland from Noro yarn... always beautiful colours..

And Oliver likes it too!

The second shawl is gorgeous 100% cashmere, Filatura di Crosa yarn... absolute luxury, and Stephen Wests lovely pattern Daybreak... love it!

Then there is a ractangular shawl for my mother... the yarn is Impulse of Delight's and the pattern is Spring Leaves.

With some great ladies on Ravelry we did a KAL with yarn dyed especially for us by Tuulia, and we did Stephen West's Akimbo....

And last but not least, I just finished my first project with Wollmeise yarn; the pattern is Haruni and the yarn colour is Pinie... the second photograph shows the true colour.