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 [...]
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My “Innocent Smoothie” Hats 2011
Posted in knitting, personal, rant, Whatever on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Another pair of knit socks and some more…
Posted in Books, game, knitting, pattern, personal, self made..., Whatever on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At the moment I’m down with a nasty cold and more or less had to spend all week in bed. After feeling absolutely miserable for the first few days I’m somewhat better now and also rather bored. To make time pass faster I did a lot of knitting. I finished those 9 to 5 socks, [...]
Knit Socks… again ;)
Posted in audio, Books, knitting, pattern, personal, rant, Whatever on September 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
And another post to show off yet another pair of knit socks: 9 to 5 socks The socks turned out absolutely wonderful and I just love how intricate the pattern looks, though it was actually easy to knit… after I figured out how to do those cables, that is. Also the socks are incredibly stretchy [...]
Grrrr!!! (or Cats and their love for wet knitting)
Posted in knitting, personal, rant, Whatever on August 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Apparently the best place for my cat to have an extended afternoon nap is soaking wet knitting. Grrrr! Kitty fast asleep on Blinky Normally she’d never go near anything that looks like it might possibly be a tiny little bit wet, BUT whenever there is wet knitting around she seems to feel the sudden urge [...]
Blinky or the knit fish hat ;)
Posted in knitting, pattern, personal, Whatever on August 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I finished knitting yet another hat. I had a few minor difficulties at first with the pattern, but Kara helped me sort them out. (Thanks!!! ) And so I can now proudly present my “Blinky” hat: Blinky In case you aren’t familiar with Blinky, he is the cute 3 eyed fish from The Simpsons. [...]
Smokey Wave Scarf
Posted in knitting, pattern, personal, self made..., Whatever on August 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Here is the scarf I finished a couple of days ago. I’m calling it smokey wave scarf ’cause with those different shades of gray it looks a little bit like swirling smoke. Smokey Wave Scarf The pattern is my own invention, though I guess I’m probably not the first to knit such a scarf. Anyway [...]
Knit Skirt
Posted in knitting, pattern, personal, self made..., Whatever on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I had the last 2 weeks off and didn’t go anywhere in particular, I finally had time to LV to my hearts content and to knit, knit, knit. Last week I finally finished my knit skirt and it turned out much better than expected, for I discovered halfway through that I should have used [...]
My New Giant Plush Microbes
Posted in odd stuff, personal, Whatever on July 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My Giant Plush Microbes have become a few more companions. Microbes May I introduce you to Bookworm (the longish, curved, light yellow one with the cute teeth and big brown eyes in the back row), Herpes (yellow one who looks a bit like the sun, also in the back row), Yeast (the fat round one [...]
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