Today I finished knitting a rather simple cabled hat for mum. I used size 6 (US 10) needles and the yarn is Lana Grossa Uno (1 1/2 skeins). Though the yarn looks great, feels wonderfully soft and awesome to wear, it is a real pain to knit with. Still I love how the hat turned [...]
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Simple Cabled Hat
Posted in knitting, pattern, personal, self made..., Whatever on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Waves Cardigan
Posted in knitting, pattern, personal, self made..., Whatever on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Just a tiny short post to show of my finished cardigan: Waves Cardigan Isn’t it pretty? I finished it yesterday and just love how it turned out. Also it fits perfectly. It will be fun to wear it over short sleeved shirts in spring. Right now it’s a little too chilly for that… Anyway, I [...]
Books I’ve read in 2011
Posted in Books, personal, Whatever, tagged beezus and ramona, elizabeth enright, elizabeth jane howard, farmer boy by laura ingalls wilder, laura ingalls wilder, nicholas stuart gray on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
2011 was quite a busy year where reading is concerned. I read 39 books and listened to 77 audiobooks. Of those 77 audiobooks only 16 were either commercial or non LibriVox recordings. The other 61 were Librivox recordings, for which I did the prooflistening. Of the books I read the one I liked best probably was [...]
LibriVox Christmas Carol Collection 2011
Posted in audio, LibriVox, personal, self made..., Whatever on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In perfect time for Christmas this year’s LibriVox Christmas Carol Collection is now in the catalog and ready to be downloaded. It consists of 25 wonderful carols in several different languages. As I’m not very good when it comes to summaries, here is what the official catalog page says about it: LibriVox volunteers bring you [...]
The Little Mud-Sparrows
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a tiny post to tell you all about the beautiful poem I recorded last weekend for the fortnightly poetry collection at LibriVox. The poem is called “The Little Mud-Sparrows” by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. (taken from CHRISTMAS IN LEGEND AND STORY; A Book for Boys and Girls, complied by Elva S. Smith, Carnegie Library Pittsburgh [...]
My red convertible mittens
Posted in audio, knitting, LibriVox, pattern, personal, self made... on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I finished my red convertible mittens and they turned quite well, though I’m not yet sure I’ll be wearing them much. Usually I prefer fingerless mittens as they let me use my ipod quite comfortably. But the weather is definitely getting too cold for those and so I just had to try convertible ones [...]
Happy Halloween!
Posted in personal, self made..., Whatever on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s such a pity that we don’t have a proper Halloween, with witches, ghosts, zombies, trick-or-treating and other fun stuff here. Still I had a wonderful time carving out this “beauty” for today’s party: My Jack O’Lantern Doesn’t he look great (though his teeth are crooked and in desperate need of braces )? He did [...]
My “Innocent Smoothie” Hats 2011
Posted in knitting, personal, rant, Whatever on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I made these hats for this year’s big “Innocent Smoothie Hat Knitting”: http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/bigknit/get_knitting/inde… Innocent Smoothie Hats Basically it’s a kind of charity thing… each sold smoothie, that is wearing a hat, brings a donation of 30 Cents. The money is used to get elderly people through the winter. My 2 fav. smoothie hats To be [...]
My 400. LibriVox Recording
Posted in audio, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of mintues ago, I uploaded my 400. LibriVox recording! 400 sections!!! It took me almost exactly a year to record 100. sections and by chance it’s again a text I recorded for the German “Adventskalender“… only of course this time it’s the one for 2011. (The Adventskalender is a collection of 24 texts [...]
Max und Moritz & Co – new LV solo
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on September 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Proudly presenting my finished LibriVox solo recording of German short stories for kids: http://librivox.org/erzaehlungen-fuer-kinder-von-various/ Here is the official summary: Neben berühmten Erzählungen wie “Max und Moritz – Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen” von Wilhelm Busch und zwei der weniger bekannten Texten von Heinrich Hoffmann (Autor von Struwwelpeter) enthält diese Sammlung insgesamt 20 kurze Erzählungen, Gedichte [...]
