in progress

 

my mother's birthdaygift for me this year were this beautiful vest that she is knitting.
it is not completely finished yet but she stopped by here today to try it on and make some new measures.
she took a couple of photos of it so i could share it with you...*smiling*..
the pattern is the nightingale vest by helga isager and the yarns used are the ones that are suggested in the pattern (alpaca1 and highland yarn, one strand of each).

yesterday i saw hestehov/horsehoof for the first time this year.
today they are covered with snow! it seems like winter is refusing to loosen it's grip...

pleasures

some of todays pleasures..
-beautiful kindred magazine waiting for me in my letter box
-lovely quince & co yarn, thank you sweet carrie!!
-drinking heavenly butterfly jasmine tea
-started reading aimee benders novel "the particular sadness of lemon cake" today.
-stir fried summercabbage and squash, fresh pasta and parmesan for dinner.
together with a little side"salad" made of cucumber and fresh dill. tasted super-good!


yarn:
lark in carrie's yellow and owl in tawny.

today

fresh tulips on my table.
no clouds on the sky, only the lovely sun.
an eurasian collared dove couple are eating by the feeders in our garden,
they have the most beautiful shades of colors.
pie for dinner, YUMMIE!!
drinking tea and indulging in a delicious "kokkosbolle",
just noticed that the english word for it is snowball...what a lovely name...*smiling*...
and of course doing some knitting.
 

 

sorry for publishing yet another post with a photo of myself!
sometimes i must seem like such a selfcentered person because of the
endless amount of blogposts with showing photos of myself...*laughing*...
the reason for this specific one is that i wanted to share the happiness with you
over my new atelier nausika earrings
and
the pretty braided necklace that ute has just gifted me.
i feel spoiled and i am hugely enjoying it....*more laughing*...


thank you all so much for the sweetest words about my knitting skills/knitting results!
if someone had told me, just a few years back, that i was going to find so much joy in knitting
i would have laughed so hard that my stomach would have started to hurt...
one shall definitely never say never....*smiling*...


these days i find myself daydreaming about peonies...i love peonies!
we have quite a few in our garden and every year when they are blooming i get the urge to drown
my face in their fat flower heads...(i actually did it once but got ants crawling into my nose..NOT recommendable!...*laughing*..)


another quote from the book i am currently reading (and hugely enjoying) these days,
The art of hearing heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker:

"Love has so many different faces that our imagination is not prepared to see them all."
"Why does it have to be so difficult?"
“Because we see only what we already know. We project our own capacities—for good as well as evil—onto the other person. Then we acknowledge as love primarily those things that correspond to our own image thereof. We wish to be loved as we ourselves would love. Any other way makes us uncomfortable. We respond with doubt and suspicion. We misinterpret the signs. We do not understand the language. We accuse. We assert that the other person does not love us. But perhaps he merely loves us in some idiosyncratic way that we fail to recognize."

my "ochre" and i in the softness of the early morning light

i finished my ochre cardigan yesterday and i LOVE everything about this knittingproject:
the pattern, yarnblend AND color!
the only thing i have left on it is to sew on a hook and eye closure but i need to buy one first,
in the meantime my beautiful atelier nausika brooch does the work OR i can simply have it open....both is pretty i think...*smiling*...
it is enormously satisfying to finish a knitting project AND excitingly fun to start on a new...ha-ha....
next project is soon on my knitting needles but first i am going to finish reading the book The art of hearing heartbeats, i enjoy it SO much!
visible lovely signs of spring moving closer these days:
yesterday a fly was buzzing around in my windowsill
and in some places the ground is free for both snow and ice so it is possible to take a walk in lighter shoes...goodbye winterboots!!

Knitting, waffle eating and just in the beginning of reading Jan-Philipp Sendker's book
The art of hearing heartbeats. I have been waiting for it at the library for a long time,
finally it was my turn....*smiling*..
A couple of quotes from the book:

"Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that they took him to other countries and unfamiliar continents, and that with their help he was always getting to now new people, many of whom even became his friends."

“Can words sprout wings? Can they glide like butterflies through the air? Can they captivate us, carry us off into another world? Can they open the last secret chambers of our souls?”
 
-Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats 

This easter:
-my sister spoiled me with the lovliest yellow handknitted alpacca socks. so pretty and soft, warm, long and supercomfy. it's very nice with late birthdaypresents like this, makes the lovely "birthdayfeeling" last longer than just on the actual birthday!..*smiling*..
actually i know that there are two more late ones (from far away friends) to look forward to. these are coming via the "airway", excited to see in my letter box later today...maybe something is waiting for me there!...*smiling*...
-ate way too many slices with delicous carrot cake, YUM!!
-watched numerous episodes of Agatha Cristie's Poirot and Miss Marple.
-started knitting this one, in a lovely organic cotton+merino wool blend. color: yellowish.
-enjoyed the sunlight and tea drinking outside.