New Things

I decided to start my own knitting blog. So many people are doing it and it seems like a fun way to keep track of what you're doing and how it's going - and of course it's always a great place to vent. ;) I have never been good at journaling but I hope I'll be able to stick to this. I'm actually german but I'm doing this in English to practice my "knitter's vocabulary". Besides a bit portion of the knitting community is English, so why not? Maybe I'll do a dual language blog at some point - if I should really stick to this.

I am up in Ravelry as Kassandra but I'm the first to admit that there isn't really that much of interest to see on my profile page yet. Only one finished project with pictures. Got two more projects hibernating - a poncho waiting for me to redo a seam (oh, how I hate seaming) and a scarf I ran out of yarn on and I can't get any more of this yarn (haven't decided how to handle that yet) - and one I'm working hard on to finish. The one I'm currently working on is a lacey cardigan called Serenade - the design is by Birgit Freyer. This is the third time I started knitting it and this time it seems like it'll be the final and get finished. Finally. I've been working on this since last July. It seems like I am a really loose knitter and therefor the measurements of main piece were off. Each time I started it I worked on smaller kneedles - this successful time I am using 5.0 mm kneedles (that's US size 8) and that seems to do the trick. I am now about 2/3 through the first sleeve and really liking it. Can't wait to finish it.

I have about a gazillion sock patterns, fingerless mittens patterns, shawl patterns I'd love to cast on - but I'll be waiting with all of that. I'll be participating in a few knit-alongs as well, but again I'll be waiting before I start casting those on. My first priority for this year is to knit this beautiful shawl and I hope to finish it until the end of February. I'm just waiting for my yarn to arrive from the US. Ordered some of that really gorgeous Raven Clan Korppi Laci by Blue Moon Fiber Arts for this and got myself some Addi lace kneedles (along with a whole damn lot of sock yarn I bought on a whim ;) ). I will really have to finish it until the end of February because I want this to me my wedding shawl - and the wedding will be sometime during the end of February or the beginning of March. We don't quite know yet since we haven't fully decided on a place yet - and because we're really horrible at making long time plans and preperations. ;)

Well, this will be it for now. I'll post some pictures of what I'm currently working on and the one finished project I mentioned ( a teddy bear, knitted for my friends' daughter for christmas) at a later point. And once my Korppi arrives I'll be posting about how I like it in real life as opposed to on my screen.