The Gift Knitting Season

The scarf is finished and is drying on top of the freezing box as we "speak". I've started on the next gift, some Broadripple socks in a multi coloured brown toned Regia yarn that looks much better in this pattern that you might think. The yarn was a gift so I'm being extra thrifty too.

Cheerleading

The Katla cheerleading team is now a reality!

Cheerleading has been my daughters dream for years, but we don't have that here in Iceland, and certainly not in tiny villages like ours.

But this year I decided it's now or newer and it was up to me to make her dream come true. I'm no athlete - but I am a teacher although I do not work as one right now. I couldn't find a gym teacher to undertake the training so I asked a girl from the oldest class (she is 15) to help me, and together we coach the team.
We stay well clear of any dangerous stunts and concentrate on the things we know how to do - the dancing and the cheering part.
We have had two practises so far and things are going great! There are three girls missing in the photo - they were sick (the world famous flu).

Today's rock picture

Today's rock picture, originally uploaded by Harpa J.

The weather today is amazing. Just wonderful - still warm and very unlike normal November weather. But I'm not complaining. Not at all.

The Gift Knitting Season

The gift knitting season has officially started. I'm thinking mittens this year, perhaps something in the line of these :
- both from spillyjane knits and available for free on ravelry. The pictures are links - click on them and you will be brought to the ravelry patterns.

I have a lot of other patterns lined up - but I started the season with a simple scarf in Cormo Silk Alpaca from Foxfire. I only have one skein so it's just going to be a small scarf, but the colours are a beautiful fall palette and the yarn if just so soft and wonderful that I think it's not going to matter. I'm using the Yarn Harlot´s very simple One Row Handspun Scarf pattern. It's extremely simple - mindless even - but surprisingly good looking.

Simple is a good thing, I'm very aware of the time factor. I hope to do two dresses (original design, still to be done), a sweater (ditto) - and a lot of mittens.

What are you planning to do? I bet you are much farther a long than I and much more realistic!

Skógarfoss

Skógarfoss, originally uploaded by Harpa J.

The weather was just perfect yesterday and we went on a little family outing. We stopped for quite a while by this little pond, the view was breathtaking.

Today's rock picture

Today's rock picture, originally uploaded by Harpa J.

With a bit of reflection as a bonus.

Monkey

My monkey socks - finished just in time for Lolly's socktober fest, but not photographed until this morning. A guy in his over sized Jeep was staring at me in disbeliev as I was trying to keep my balance on the ground with my feet in the air. Normally I would just have leaned back, but I didn't want to soil my fancy new very white jacket so I sat there in an unstable V- like pose. I'm sure you can picture it, I was not very elegant to put it delicately.

The socks are not in a very exiting colour I know, but the yarn is very soft and durable. I bought it for next to nothing in a sale a while ago, it's Froehlich Wolle Special Blauband.
The socks I made with this yarn three years ago are like new, despite much wear and subsequent washing.

Tásur

Tásur, originally uploaded by Harpa J.

The pair I finished the other day.
These are similar to the ones I did last summer, dyes with rhubarb stalks and embroidered with linen floss. But these have a scalloped edge so there is a little renewal going on. I working on still another pair, but they have quite different embroidery, even if the colour palette is similar.

Vík

Vík, originally uploaded by Harpa J.

I forgot this one the other day!
This is my handsome son in law, modelling Vík.