Finished off and ready to be shipped 🙂 Sheila,I hope you like it ❤ ❤ ❤
Love
xxx
Tajana
Tag: Shawl
Knitting in the night
11:30 p.m.
Sheila’s shawl is FO 🙂 🙂 🙂 The blocking follows tomorrow.
Good night,world! I’m off to watch Law and Order SVU
FO :: my Crescent Shawl
Fixing…
Hello, my friends!
I’m a bit absent-minded lately… or at least I feel like that…. A lot of things are happening in these days mostly related to small every day issues which are fixed as you go but which do not allow me to be online as often as I used to be. Well,on one hand,that’s not so bad because I’m often out but, on the other, I follow less the news in blogland… I have to say that here is not like live in Parma. It takes me half an hour or forty minutes by bike to reach the nearest grocery shop so if I want anything it takes me something like two hours for fetch it… go out, time spent in the shop, a chat, and go back home… But if you have seen my photos on Instagram you can easy understand why I don’t mind spending so much time out….
Since it is fifteen years that I do not practice any sport (except working or similar obligatory ‘to do’ stuff… ) my muscular ache was quite bad lately and that made me feel quite dizzy… Now I feel much better but the time I need to ride around is the same… and there is less of it to dedicate to blogland… 
I’m always crafting… I always find time for create and even if now I have my Big man both at lunch and dinner (YIPPEE!!!!) I didn’t neglect my craft.
I’m both working on my curtains….
…. and on my Crescent shawl…
Talking about this last project of mine…. I made a mistake in this central part of the shawl… I realized, after two rows knitted already, that I had lost a stitch…. and this was the result….
Can you spot the three holes…? They don’t exactly look like a honeycomb, do they….? By the way, this lace looks much alike a honeycomb… well, I was thinking about leaving this as it is but the awareness of those three holes’ existance annoyed me to the point that I had to find a solution…
Spotted the fixed part, the one indicated by the hook?Oh, I didn’t do anything special except bring a string of yarn up to the last worked row… it still does not look like a honeycomb but it is much better than having three ugly holes which can be easily noticed by anyone… Yes, I know, I’m exhausting… indeed…
It is time to make dinner here so I’m off to prepare something for the two of us…
Have a nice evening ❤ ❤ ❤
Love
xxx
Tajana
FO :: Elisabeth Lovick’s Crescent Shawl and a really magnificent gift
Hello, my dear friends!
These last two weeks were quite busy and intensely lived, in particular in its affective and emotional aspect. My Big man is working an awfully lot and the days he was at home I was focused on him and our life together and didn’t have the right concentration to blog. Well, to be honest, we are facing some issues that require a lot of energy and self confidence so I prefered being present in the real life rather than in the virual one. On the other hand, I didn’t stop to craft mostly because this is the best way to muse about everyday life and its problems as well as because my hands were itching to craft something from Elisabeth Lovick’s book.
But before writing about my last FO I’d like to show you what bmaryglaser sent me from the States…
The American Cook Book…
AMAZING!!!!
I have secretly desired it for ages…. and it is exactly as I imagined it….
…..just woooooooooooooooooooooow…..
That kind lady called Brittany Mary put in the parcel another amazing item…..
….which, as I saw it, made me recall Janis Joplin’s song Me and Bobby McGee….
Bmary glued all the pieces of this beautiful car all by herself…. how, for God’s sake, can’t I be moved to tears… ?
And last but not least, she crocheted a beautiful headband and wrote me a gorgeous card…
Bmary, I forgot to tell you that I’m on my way to make my hair grow under my Big man’s strict demand…. I think that this summer I will be the coolest girl in town…. 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
What can I say…. when I saw the contents of the parcel I was astonished!!! It is far beyond my expectations and I really don’t know how to thank you properly, Bmary!!! I enjoy every single goodie you sent me. Thank you ❤ ❤ ❤
Now, the Crescent shawl…. the photos just do not do it justice. I’ll try to make a better photo session of the shawl next week (I’m traveling to Croatia on Thursday) but up till then….
I have finished off the shawl an hour ago and have blocked it on the bed. I do not usually soak my knitted projects monstly because I do not have an appropriate surface to put them to dry …. I usually wet them with an odor eliminator, block them and make dry on the bed. Well, it works almost as well as soaking…. 🙂
I’m in love with Shetland lace…. I was so affrait not to be able to knit the shawl but it had turned out better that I could have eventually expected…. It was such a pleasure knitting this goodie as well as seeing it shaping while blocking…. and the colour…. it is not an usual red… oh no.. it is a nice cherry red that I love really much….
Dear Jennifer, your first goodie is ready 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’ll focus on a second one now… 🙂 🙂 🙂
Love
xxx
Tajana
The bind off is a dirty job….
Elisabeth Lovick’s Crescent Shawl
My new shawl and mitts…
Hello, my dear friends!
The holidays are over and the new year has started and I’m back to craft again!!!
Yippee!!!!
Ok,I know, I’m insane…..
Well, here are my first FOs of the year to prove that 🙂 I knitted myself a Nurmilintu shawl and a pair of mitts with thumb, first one ever, both following the patterns by my favourite Raverly designer, Heidi Alander.
Aren’t the colour shades of this yarn nice…? 🙂 This is my Mum in Law’s Xmas gift 🙂 well, to be precise, she gave me some money and I made that money become a nice goodie…. he he 🙂 And guess where I bought the beauty I’m wearing…. in Katia’s store, of course…… ❤ ❤ ❤
The above items were not the only thing I’ve crafted lately….. my BM gave me a wonderful gift for Xmas…. maybe it is too much for me, but I have to admit that I’m enjoying it so awfully much….. look from where I’m reading the pattern on the below photo….
….. from a smartphone…… what to say…… well, my new toy needed it’s cover….
…. which I’ve knitted by following no pattern, just an idea I’d got in my mind…. and I sewed on a beautiful owl charm Claire sent me from England ❤ ❤ ❤
Life is good, isn’t it?
Love
xxx
Tajana
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