Pink and Barbara

Happy Halloween or All Saints...

I love Halloween with the pumpkins and the witches so I decorated out porch yesterday afternoon.

 

I also hung my little witch. She hangs from a string  and when she spins around sitting on her broom you can look under the skirt and see her naked butt...it is so funny...

At the moment I am working on finishing the latest Pink and Barbara Patterns, so the will be printed at the printer on Monday. Also I will have new cards printed, it is so exciting. All the Pink and Barbara pattern sheets have been professionally re-done.

So when all this is done I will have one full week off the rest before I leave for my big trip to Holland. I am so excited about that! I have some projects that I would love to finish to take with me to Holland.

First I am knitting a pair of felted slippers. They are so cute. This is the test one.  

Here you can see them. The first picture shows the big slipper. You then wash it and it gets smaller and thicker...

The second project are a pair of mittens called Podster. You can find a link here. They are wonderful you can remove the flap so you can use your fingers and stick out your thumb so you can operate your ipod. I love them, and they knit up so fast...

Here is a picture of the original:

They are great christmas presents as well!

And the last project is my dream project. I know there is now way that I can finish on time but I am dreaming about it. It is my Laminaria shawl

She is turning out so lovely and I am hoping she will come with me on the trip...but...I need to do some serious knitting if I want to make that work in  a week..I will let you know how it goes...*smile*

Tonight I am having some guests over so I am making something called Croustade aux Pommes for desert, which was featured in the latest County Living Magazine.(UK)

Oh before I forget..I made a little quilt for Quilt-it and Dotty's Doll quilt Club . Here is a sneak preview of the fabrics I used. This will be this months quilt.

 

Have a great Halloween!

New storage!

I just love my new storage...I build it myself with some help of my DH.

The cupboard is easy to make. You go to IKEA and buy the modules.

Put them together in the way you like. Paint them and mount them on a piece of wood with "feet" under it and you done!

Enjoy!

Birthday cake

My dh had his birthday last weekend. He is the kind of person who never has a wishlist of presents and things and is generally happy with small things.

He does have one request. He mom used to always make him strawberry birthday cake. So also this year he got his birthday cake...but made by me... It was yummie..

Birthday present...

A friend of Weronica and I had a birthday last week. So we got together and made her the Caddy bag since she loves baskets and stuff. We also bought here some garden tools and a new rose, since she is a Gardner and has some great roses all-ready.

The bag:

The inside of the bag:

Hope she will love it and use it often!

Enjoy!

It's melting...yeah!!

Hi!

It is such a beautiful day today, the sun is shinning. It is still cold here but the snow is melting bit by bit. I am so happy about it. (you can see the snow still on the background of the picture)  I can't wait to start on my garden. I have already planted some seeds that are now in my windowsills, some have already started to grow!

The free give away party is now. Thank you all so much for entering. It was lovely to read! Tonight I will draw a winner and the 5 extra winners. The free pattern you will all be getting is being test-sewn now, just to make sure that everything is OK, so you can start looking for it on Sunday!

I am still working on my Tangled Yoke cardigan and it is looking wonderful.

 I also finished this 2 weeks ago.

It is called Serpahim by Miriam Felton and it is made out of Handmaiden Sea-silk yarn. The color is called Rose garden I  really like it but it got a bit too big. I drown in it ..but think It will be wonderful on a cold summers night sitting outside.

 

I am also working on some new designs for the upcoming show The Open  European Quilt Championships in Velthoven, Holland. It is from the 30 of April until the 3th of may. I will have some spoiler pictures coming soon, but that is why it has been so quiet on the blog...

Talk to you soon again...take care!

Shelves

Hi!

Doesn't this looks sad...even my plant gave up the will to live...*s*

I have this insane collection of tea-things. I have so many teacups that DH have said that no more teacups are coming into our house. Can you believe it. I also wanted them to be more prominent in our house.

So I have been thinking about a new way to show them off. Because the other 4 shelves I had are not enough. So I started thinking about some new shelves above my cupboard in the kitchen. So after a trip to the store we got some shelves and screws and so on. I put a white-wash coat on it. 

This is what it looks like now:

Nice huh? I am so happy with it! Now I can buy some more cups.

Finished things last weekend

I had this great weekend this last weekend. You know the kind of weekend where you don't have to do anything and find the inspiration to finish some things. I had a friend over for some crafting and finished a great trilogy of books, and just relaxed....

I finished DH socks that were supposed to be a Christmas present but didn't quite work out like that, since I took the knitting with me to Holland. I then send it back to myself because I only had carry-on on the plane and didn't want to loose it.

It took more then 4 weeks to get here!..and then it was to late for Christmas. But they are done now and he loves them!

The pattern is called: thuja

I knitted it in Lorna's Lace Shepherd Sport 100% super-wash. Color 304 Black Watch on 2.75 needles.

It was kind of a boring knit since my DH has enormous feet! I am so happy to be done.

I also made these Baby booties for a friend who just had a little baby girl.

The pattern can be found here. In Dutch as well! 

I made it in 100% cashmere, it is so soft. On 3 mm needles.

I also went to the book sale that we have every end of February and I bought these books.

I can't wait for spring and digging in the garden. 

A present in the mail

Just before I went to Holland I got these lovely socks in the mail from Cathi They are a belated b-day present. I absolutly love them. They came in this cute packaging.  Thank you Cathi I wear them almost every day! 

Sideways:

Back into blogland

The summer has been crazy for me here in Sweden. I don't know where the time went and I haven't blogged in ages.

I have had some problems with the computer and typepad making me loose my whole entries, but it should be fixed..so I am back into blogland and hope to write about what I have been doing in the next weeks..

Barbara 

What heaven is for me..

We are back from our vacation and had a lovely time!

When we got back Dh went on a Golf-vacation and I had 5 days at home by myself... and it was heaven..this are the ingredients for a really good time:

It all starts with a rainy day:

Some books in the mail:

Some great DVD's

And a comfy chair, with my clapotis knitting ready to go:

So this is what the clapotis looks like now after some knitting...

Good times!