Posted in knitting, Whatever on October 27, 2010| 2 Comments »
Just a short post to show off my cute Halloween Nintendo DS sock:
Halloween Nintendo DS Sock
Actually I intended to knit proper Halloween socks for myself…. but I knit the pattern SO thightly, that I just couldn’t get my foot through. Anyway, I now have a lovely sock for my Nintendo Ds! 😉
Posted in audio, Books, knitting, LibriVox, personal, rant, Whatever on October 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
With Halloween coming up, I decided to knit a pair of proper Halloween socks for myself. The pattern is from ravelry.com and a link to it can be found on my project page (aravis83).
Halloween socks
It’s my first attempt at knitting with different colors and it’s a LOT harder than it looks. Actually the whole thing is a real mess… I’m constantly getting entangled, everything twists and turns, there are huge loops of yarn in the back and at one point even a nasty snarl, I couldn’t get rid of. In fact I’ve probably spent more time untangling things than I have spent with the actual knitting.
I’m just glad the Jack O’Lanterns are recognizeable in spite of the hideous mistake I made. (Miscounted the stitches at one point and only realized much later and just couldn’t face ripping it and doing it over again.) Perhaps that’s the reason, why my pumpkins don’t look as scary as I would have liked. 😉
Apart from my “knitting woes”, I’ve managed to produce the most wonderful (and probably most embarrassing) blooper yesterday, when recording the first chapter of “Der Weihnachtsabend” (A Christmas Carol), my new solo.
What I’m trying to say is: “…Der Inhaber einer kleinen, jungen Nase, benagt und angebissen von der hungrigen Kälte, wie Knochen von Hunden benagt werden, legte sich an Scrooges Schlüsselloch, um ihn mit einem Weihnachtslied zu erfreuen…”
I ended up reading the sentence like this: “…legte sich an Scrooges <insert longish pause with a deep exasperated sigh> Schlüsselloch…”! Editing fixed it nicely! 😉
Posted in audio, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on October 23, 2010| 7 Comments »
Today I uploaded my 300. LibriVox recording! YAY!!! 😎 *so proud*
300. LibriVox Recording
It’s Peter Rosegger’s “Der erste Christbaum in der Waldheimat” (roughly translated it means: The first Christmas tree in the Waldheimat), which I recorded for the German Adentskalender 2010! (That’s a collection of 24 texts for each day leading up to Christmas and of course all texts are about Christmas, snow, fir trees, Santa Claus, cookies, reindeer… ).
“Der erste Christbaum in der Waldheimt” is a cute story about how the narrator surprised his little brother with a Christmas tree, which also was the first tree in his remote Austrian village.
So here it is:
Listen! It’s fun! 😀
Oh and here are my 299 other recordings:
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=3885
Posted in audio, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on October 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I started a new solo. It’s “Der Weihnachtsabend –Â Eine Geistergeschichte” by Charles Dickens. That’s the German translation of the famous “Christmas Carol”.
I have never read it before and so I’m quite curious about it. Of course I more or less know the story from various movies, so it will be doubly interesting to read it now. This year’s Christmas is my target completion date! 😀
Posted in audio, knitting, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on October 20, 2010| 1 Comment »
Yesterday I finished my “Hermione Mitts”… just in time as the weather turned from pleasant warm late automn sunshine to foggy cold Halloween rain.
Hermione Mitts
For my mitts I modified that pattern I used for the Hermione Hat, I did some weeks ago. I worked it on 48 stitches with k1, p1 rib around for about 5 cm. The actual pattern I only worked on the front side of the mitt with 14 stitches: k4, p5, k6, p5, k4 following the instructions from the Hermione Hat pattern exactly. (The other side is just plain knit)
For the increase: knit two rounds plain after ribbing, then begin increases; knit two rounds plain, then increase two stitches on right side and two stitches on left side. Repeat for a total of three times, ending with increase round. Then, *knit two rounds pain. Next round: increase two stites at thumb. Work k2tog YO twice at opposite side of the mitten. Repeat from * for a total of three times. (Thanks so much, Kara for sorting out my knitting instructions! 😀 )
I just love the way it turned out. They are just a tiny bit too large for my hands, but that probably makes them just extra comfy! 😀
Details and more pics are as usual on my ravelry page: http://ravel.me/aravis83/hceh3
Apart from knitting I’ve lately become addicted to playing Trainyard. It’s awesome and lots of fun! One of the best puzzle games ever and it lets you upload your solutions. I just love comparing my with those of others. Here are mine… all of them are of course the only proper way of solving the puzzles: http://www.trainyard.ca/4jtx
Also I’m thinking about doing another short German solo, now that my Struwwelpeter solo is done. I want it to be done in time for Christmas… but I’m not telling yet, what it is going to be! 😉
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on October 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Here is another one of my BCing projects that got done recently. It’s a lovely book called “Harding’s Luck” by Edith Nesbit.
"'IT IS A MOONFLOWER, OF COURSE,' HE SAID."
Harding’s luck is sequel to E. Nesbit’s “The House of Arden”. It tells the story of Dickie Harding, a disabled boy, who one day accidentelly discovers an old magic, that allows him to travel into his own past. There he meets Elfrida and Edred Arden (as told in “The House of Arden”) and together they seek for a long lost treasure. (Summary by Elli)
I also did the prooflistening (so if you there are sniffles, repeats or other odd stuff in the files, you know who to blame ;)) and loved every minute of it. The story is lovely and exciting and fun and full of the most wonderful magic.
Hope you all will enjoy it as much as I did:
http://librivox.org/hardings-luck-by-edith-nesbit/
Btw. we also have the first book of the Arden series in our catalog. It’s called “The House of Arden” and tells the story of how Edred and Elfrida Arden rescue their father:
http://librivox.org/the-house-of-arden-by-edith-nesbit/
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, Whatever on October 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Another one of by BCing projects recently got cataloged. It’s “Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville” by L. Frank Baum. It’s the third book of the series:
Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville is a 1908 young-adult novel written by L. Frank
L. Frank Baum
Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. It is the third volume in “the successful Aunt Jane Series,” following Aunt Jane’s Nieces and Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad. Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville picks up the story of the three cousins, Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and Louise Merrick, soon after their return from Europe in Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad. As in that earlier book, their benign and eccentric millionaire Uncle John devotes much of his fortune to helping others — an effort managed by Patsy’s father, Major Doyle. These efforts do not always yield fiscally sound results… (Summary by Wikipedia)
The audiobook can be found here: http://librivox.org/aunt-janes-nieces-at-millville-by-l-frank-baum/
Have fun listening! 😀
Posted in knitting, personal, self made..., Whatever on October 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I’ve been really busy this weekend… well, just where knitting and prooflistening is concerned. 😉 I had 9.3 hrs of listening “to do” when I started on Friday. Now I’m down to just 5.1 hours. Anyway my “colorful cable socks” are finally done and they turned out just as I hoped they would.
My "colorful cable socks"
I love the colors and just couldn’t resist modeling them against the sky, especially as we finally had the first really fine and even warm (almost warm) autumn day. Hope it stays that way for a bit!
More pics and all details are on my ravelry page: http://ravel.me/aravis83/ccs
Hermione Mitts
With the socks finished, I started “Hermione Mitts” today. I’m using the pattern I already used for the Hermione Hat, only slightly modified. Wonder how they will turn out! 😀
Posted in audio, LibriVox, Whatever on October 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Today I cataloged “Priester und Detektiv” by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, one my BCing projects. It’s a collection of well known Father Brown (Pater Brown) stories.
Pater Brown ist ein englischer katholischer Pfarrer, der als Hobby Kriminalfälle löst. Dies gelingt ihm, indem er sich in den Täter hineinversetzt, dabei das Verbrechen selbst begeht, wie er sagt. Dabei ist er aber weniger daran interessiert, Verbrecher der irdischen Gerechtigkeit auszuliefern, sondern er will sie zu Gott führen; eine freiwillige Beichte des Täters genügt ihm. Dabei spielt es für ihn keine Rolle, welches Amt diese Person bekleidet. (Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia)
Here is my recording of the last story in the book. It’s called “Die drei Todeswerkzeuge”.
Here is the whole audiobook! Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did: http://librivox.org/priester-und-detektiv-pater-brown-geschichten-by-chesterton-g-k/
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