Cowl finished

OK, I am ready for winter now because I have finished knitting my cowl.

I am not able to take a picture of myself wearing it so Teddy Blue will have to be my stand in.

I won him years ago and my nieces enjoyed him when they were children - that is why he looks a bit messy, but I do not have the heart to throw him out.

This yarn was very nice to knit with and with a size 8 circular needle it does not take long to finish something. I will definitely use this yarn again some other time - I hope.

The cowl

It's been quite some days so I have better post a message here. I have been working on the cowland it is very quick when you use knitting needles size 8 and some thick yarn. But it is sooooo soft.
I can not make up my mind if it is long enough or not. It will be at least a month I think before we get snow so I still have time decide it, lol. If we will have any snow at all of course.
I have also worked on my sock and actually finished the first one. I forgot to take a picture though, so that will have to wait till next time.

More knitting

Yes I know that this place was supposed to be mostly about tatting, I hope to return to it very soon but just now I can not tat really. I am trying to see if I may be more able to knit and therefore I have bought more yarn today.

The blue at the right is for another pair of socks that I will knit for a dear friend of mine. The white to the left is for myself, for a cowl that I hope can keep my head and my ears warm during the coming winter. I am not good at wearing hoods or hats but I hope this will be good.

A knitted sock 2

I have worked a bit more on my sock, so here is a picture.

My friends with 4 legs

I have 3 very dear fourlegged friends, unfortunately they are all down under so I do not see them a lot, actually I have only seen them once, lol.
First there's Bindii, a red healer. Oh she is so kind and so incredible soft - look, she's smiling in the picture. She was my breakfast buddy on the bench out in the sun - she was very good to talk with - maybe because I had müsli in my bowl and she got a taste, lol. No matter what we had some very, very good mornings there and I am a huge fan of Bindii but she is definitely Jenni's dog. The little black and white one is Terra. I think it is one of the funniest dogs I have ever met. She is truely her masters dog, follow every step Jamie takes. I can not remember what breed she is. She is lying a lot on the couch where she's got her own bed and she is sometimes called Guidi, lol.This little girl below was born in August 2006 and she is so special to me because she is the closest I have been to having a dog. She is a kelpie and she is called Alli. The left picture was taken the day in October we picked her up and because I had the money in my pocket I paid for her and she was mine for 30 minutes or so, I even sat with her in my lap in the car some of the way home. She was shivering a lot because she didn't know what was going to happen to her but I know that she's got one of the best homes a dog can have. But she could not know that when we took her away from her mother and brothers.

Today she is such a fine and big girl. She's got some other fourlegged mates there and she's also got a human Aunt up in the North and I hope to see her again someday.

Dan-Aus exchange

OK, here is some tatting. I have been taking part in a friendship exchange between members of the Danish Tatting Association and the Victoria Tatting Guild in Australia. This is an angel that I got from Marie in Melbourne. The design is from one of those 2 Guild magazines that I left there last year when I attended the Victoria Tatting Guilds meeting in October.
I did bookmarks for both my partners - the Japanese edging I like so much. Marie got a variegated yellow and Susan a variegated purple. No pics, sorry.
These 3 Christmas trees Susan did for me. The tree in the center I believe she designed together with another Aussie tatter and the 2 little ones are her own designs.

I do feel so lucky with the gifts from my partners, thanks to both of you.

A knitted sock

I know this should mostly be about tatting but I am not able to tat that much right now so I have been trying to knit a sock - something I have done quite a bit earlier on.
My intention was to knit a sock with one of those yarns that forms geometrical patterns - hhhmmm!!! I can see now that I must have picked the wrong yarn because this is not excactly the pattern that I had on my mind.