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17 mars 2009

A new kitchen toy

I've been wanting to optimise my soup-making with a kniffty mixer type thing and I found it this evening at the supermarket: This should make next weeks' cooking alot faster and make alot less dishes to wash. I'm all for limiting dish washing since I...

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23 octobre 2007

I'm wearing a finished sock ...

... and it's the right size and shape, maybe not quite tight enough to qualify for a shoe wearing sock but feels great on the foot and will be worn in slippers to protect me from my tiled living room floor. And here is a finished sock photo (drum roll)...

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18 novembre 2007

Crazy socks washed and drying...

So, just before packing my suitcase and organizing bags for flying off to Slovakia, a quite note to show you these: Yeah, it's been yet another calm knitting weekend, so inbetween drowning in Ravelryness and eating and doing laundry, I set my needles...

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14 octobre 2007

Sleeves and socks

I had a lovely weekend ! isn't that nice ?!! I managed to finish sleeve number 2 and here is a picture of my progress of the whole pullover: All there is to do are the finishing strips of 2x2 rib for the bottom of the front and the top ribbing that covers...

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29 octobre 2007

My knitting with loads of photos

So, today is my Sunday and as it's raining, that gives me the perfect excuse to put food shopping off still tomorrow evening and swimming to tomorrow morning before work... I'm free to think and breath knitting First, sock progress: I put the twin in...

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4 novembre 2007

Hello November !

I just changed the page on my calendar to November... only one page left on it! Have to get me a new one... but I don't know what type I want this year: kittens and puppies, a town (had Ipswich this year) , flowers, a funny one... I just got back from...

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25 novembre 2007

At home in my pyjamas !

That's right I am at HOME !!!This week has been crazy : meeting people I didn't expect to meet, sleeping in places I hadn't planned to, doing things I didn't even think I would do... First of all, I took the plane to Kosice on Monday, pretty straightforward...

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15 décembre 2007

Back from the far east !

I'm sorry for the long wait between posts... but you're about to understand how occupied I was. In the correct order : A nice photo (thank you morning sun) of the yarn I received from Jon at Easy Knits This is the best I could do for season spirit (don't...

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16 décembre 2007

Christmas market

This is mainly a knitting at home weekend with the sun shining into the lounge making it really nice & warm (peeked at 24,5°C with about 3°C outside).I did however put a foot outside to go on a shopping spree at Phildar's clothes section (had 20% off...

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10 janvier 2008

I'm bad at happy new yearing...

So, first things first, it's the 9th January and I still haven't picked up the phone to wish my friends and family "Happy New Year" etc... the reason is, I don't usually phone alot in normal times but phoning just to say that ??? It's beyond my comprehension...

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6 janvier 2008

Happy New year 2008 !

Hiya and have a pleasant and fun filled year (meaning knit lots of quality and fashionable garments and accessories) 2008... So, sorry I disappeared for a few days weeks. Now, geographicaly since the last post: Last week of work in Spain where I "celebrated"...

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6 décembre 2007

New sock for ... can't remember !

OK, one photo session took place at lunch... I came straight home from work ravenous and knew exactly what I wanted to eat... Took advantage of cooking time to take photos in half-decent light... but totally forgot I'm supposed to buy a book for someone...

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2 février 2008

Some new things...

I'm really excited, look what was in my letterbox yesterday when I got back from a long day at work. Yes, that's right, I ordered all of Stephanie's books at the beginning of the year. Sadly, yesterday evening I was too tired for reading but you see I...

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24 mars 2008

It's Spring

OK I'm back.... life took over for a while, work was stressful, not much knitting got done and I was ill for a while but I'm alive and kicking now and actually feeling alot better than I usually do! So now, instead of buring the candle at both ends, I'm...

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16 novembre 2007

Ravelry and a nice postal surprise

As everyone has already said in their blogs, Ravelry is a great tool/community.It's a great way to organise projects to come, the stash and list all wips or ufos... it puts alot of things in perspective... and then there's the forum and the groups where...

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12 septembre 2008

Back for good I hope

OK, I've been a bad bad blogger... I've left with no news for quite a few months now and I suppose nobody reads me anymore... Let's try to catch up ! On a personnal front, my job has gone through the roof. I got a big project and everything is a bit hectic...

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11 novembre 2007

Out of wasteland and back into sockland

Hey! This is the second time I'm writing this... I wrote a nice post yesterday but somehow it disappeared when I saved it. So I had the photo but was angry at the technology !!! So, the boring scarf is finished, I am so relieved ! Actually I cheated in...

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21 septembre 2008

A weeks worth of knitting

The weekends' weather was glorious and exactly as I like it: Very sunny and cool, that's about 15°C at the moment. Saturday was spent finishing a pair of socks which will leave for their new owner on Monday: And, I had time and space to attack the gipsy...

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22 septembre 2008

Hiking in the vineyards

I didn't mention this in yesterday's blogpost: I went on a long hike on Sunday in the vineyards. And it was one of the harvesting weekends. Champagne is particular in the fact that all grapes musst be hand picked. This creates alot of work during approx....

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29 septembre 2008

New sock !

It's been a week. So what has happened in that week ?! First of all I had to go and meet with my client in Germany. That induced alot of stress and running about.So, knitting wise not a good week for calmly sewing up the sweater. No progress on that !...

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4 octobre 2008

New book !

I got home on Tuesday evening only to find a great surprise in my letter box. I still haven't had time to sit down with a square of chocolate and a steaming cup of Russian Earl Grey tea, but this will be happening very soon ! This is the book I am so...

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30 octobre 2007

2 yes 2 FOs !!!

So, after I wrote yesterday, I managed to buckle down to sewing to "bathroom recipient": It sewed up ok but it's a bit droopy... I vaguely remembered reading about it having to be starched so I got out the instructions (Tricot Facile by Hachette Collections)...

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14 octobre 2008

The scarf is fun

The scarf and I are now best friends. This is nothing like last winter's scarf wasteland where I thought I would never get back into something so pretty and pleasant to knit again. Now, let me remind you that this is my first Entrelac knitting, so I am...

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21 octobre 2007

Sock progress

Here I am going to update you on my sock-making: After the non-knitting episode during business trip, I got home on Friday and as always after a week away, I vegged out on my sofa (yeah, I'm so tired but I want quality time on my sofa anyway!!) until...

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11 octobre 2007

Sleeve coming on...

Here I am proud to present is my friend Mr Sleeve 2! He's been knitted on and off for ... well over a week ! How did that happen ? so much time going by ???I think I can answer that : there's alot going on in my life. There's all of the job interview...

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