Ex-shoe

This was one a part of a failed shoe. Yes - the giant slippers that would not felt. The usable part have now been cut up.

The colours are much prettier than this in real life. My camera is giving up on me.

Today's rock picture

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

The weather has been very strange lately, unseasonable warm and foggy. I'm not complaining though - I like the mild weather.

Knitting wise I'm almost done with my daughters bolero. The knitting is all done but I have the seaming and the crochet edges to do.

The giant slippers are now an officially a lost cause. The usable parts are going to be cut up and recycled as Christmas hearts - the rest goes in the bin.

I made another pair in the same yarn (just different colours) - with the same "pattern" and they turned out just fine! They are drying on top of my dryer just now - I'll post a picture later as proof.

I think this is rather strange actually.

Felting

I'm felting the gigantic shoes - and it isn't going very well. They have already had three rounds in the machine - which admittedly does not felt very well - and the last one was even on boil! I'm now trying the dryer. There is not a chance I'm felting them by hand - no way, no how.

Today my little cheer leading troupe is getting a very important visit. A man from the national television is coming to practise today. The girls a super exited to be on TV and I'm sure they are going to do their very best.

Shoes

Aren't these lovely, delicate, feminine and all that? No? They will be - I hope.
This is the ,,before felting" picture - we will see how they turn out after the process. I'm not using any specific pattern - these are just the lower part of a sock basically.

Competition

There is a fun competition going on right now on one of my favourite blogs. It's in Swedish - but I know at least some of my readers understand "Scandinavian".

Today's rock pictures

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

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

Morning and afternoon.


The dresses are blocked and dry. I'm knitting mittens (Christmas presents) but I am also almost half way with a bolero for my daughter. She needs a little something over her sleeveless dress. I'm using this pattern as a guide, but I'm altering it considerably.

I use 3.5mm pins instead of 5mm and single Drops alpaca instead of 2 threads of Drops Kid-Silk. I also use seed stitch instead of garter stitch and I'm also shortening it quite a bit.

Vík in the morning light.

Vík in the morning light., originally uploaded by Harpa J.

The snow is melting fast, as you can clearly see.

All things blocked and beautiful

Nothing exiting here for my regular readers.

This is the smaller dress, the bigger one is not quite dry. I was going to choose a different colour way- but when I looked at pictures of the lovely sisters, they were constantly dressed in pink, more pink and a lot of white too.
And I also like the idea that they would have the same dresses as their cousin here in Iceland. So I decided to use the same old pink/purple colours. Little girls love them and besides - I had them in my stash and lets face it - that is not a bad thing in this economy.

Winter

Winter, originally uploaded by Harpa J.

The second dress is finished, but I haven't gotten around to block them yet. I really must do that today, I want to mail them early. I tent to be rather late with my overseas gifts, but not this year!