Dušičky

I made a sweater for Domi, berocco yarn and something red. I only hope he will weare it. He said he would. He is growing up.

Berroco Peruvia yarn

I don't know how about you but I like it. I liked this (scroll down) sweater so I wanted to make something similar. It took me about a year.

novelties

Little guy designed a computer game. I kept staring at the picture for a while but did not realize what I was looking at. I just saw a strange and intriguing image. Only after he told me, I got it - the keyboard, the mouse, the screen. He had seen a retro computer game video and he has not stopped thinking about making one. He doesn't know what a hard job it is. He thinks his daddy can do it easily. Images of computer screens by kids are fun.

The sweater is almost finished. And so is winter. It will be a three cold days sweater.

New Year's Eve' pel-mel (Silvestrovský pelmeň)

Happy New Year!

Pictures from the folder "Other people's stuff" (again!)

credits (in random order): An ambitious project collapsing, Kleider sachen, Mieke Willems, Atelier pour enfants and many others whom I don't recall anymore. Some pictures are also my own.

Anacondas

Some knitting going on, forever, in this place. A sweater is almost a life long project. You start in the eighties, finish sometime by now, the style fits perfectly. (It is not this case, I started only last year).
The little guy made anacondas for the cabbage leaf plate.
So now I have to go, I must watch the Kingdom series by Lars von Trier.

Yeah, but I like this one better!!!! I should have waited to discover this and hop on my project from a broader perspective.
Jo Jackson's sweaters

sweater

Crazy knittig going on here. I am glancing at a picture of a Bauhaus wall hanging by Max Peiffer Watenphul from 1921. Berocco yarn and something red to exaggerate.

Mittens

I knitted them. I am happy about them. They are big but that does not matter to the little guy. A good thing about knitting them was that I figured out the pattern. Well, except for the fact that they are too big. The yarn: the leftover from the autumnal sweater and that came from here. I think I had Castanas.

So much cuteness around here. I am still delighted by the play the kids performed for their parents today at the little Christmas party in the kindergarten. It was A Journey to Betlehem. Oh, the teachers, they had it so nicely prepared, the narration, talking, playing, singing.

We read Six Bullerby children now before bed. It is so positive and happy and it makes the l. g. happy too. He wants to do stuff like they do and sometimes he acts like them and I pretend I don't notice.
 My own adult life is less interesting. Apart from the fact that I booked a hotel in Verona for our winter tour in February.

Portrait and a sweater

 

  So back to knitting. I finished this piece just right on time. I actually started a year ago so it is perfect timing in the end. First one of this kind, nice and cosy hand painted yarn, little different shades of brown in each ball. Other than knitting: we are going to the mountains on Friday, the kid is looking up hotels on the internet (yes, you read right, my 5 years old), he puts down notes in his little notebook (so cute) and dreams. My work: searching the archives to supply pictures for a book for one show. Mood: steady. Appetite: large. Oh, and we are getting ready for my husbands show, the preparations mainly consist in making up a menu for the guests, the gallery owner likes cooking and eating. Quiche, salad, banana bread. I will show you how it went.

Hat

Hat, a beret for little Markétka. Casted on 65 stitches, follow up on round needle on 120 stitches, 20 cm, knitting little knots along. Here I am trying to look like an experienced knitting blogger burbling some familiar sounding words. It is not only that I don't know the English knitting vocabulary, I do not have a slightest idea how many stitches I casted on (or whatever) and I don't even know how I succeeded in spreading those little bullets so regularly. It is true, there are kind of holes next to each bullet but it seems that she doesn't care. She said she wanted to wear it sideways, like a painter. I love my nieces, they love everything I make for them.