Alive and frogging

I'm still alive - and still knitting the darned magazine thing. I just frogged several rows and I think I officially hate it. Severely dislike it, at the very least. But I WILL finished it the day after to morrow at the very latest. I want to do something different already!

The eruption

Here are some amazing pictures, taken by a photographer from Vík.

Fun

Thriller, yeah..., originally uploaded by Harpa J.

Steam!, originally uploaded by Harpa J.

Magazine thing is still not done -but I went on a short trip with my little cheerleading team. Here are two pictures.

Food

Bread, originally uploaded by Harpa J.

I'm still knitting the secret magazine thing - but how about a food picture instead? I made this yesterday. Not for my family, oh no - I very rarely make anything this fancy for them. No this was obligatory - all the parents had to make something for the yearly "árshátíð" in the kids school, a big do with play's and shows and a big coffee spread for everyone afterwards.

Fire!

Here is a great video of the eruption.

A new mountain

This photo is amazing - it's taken by a farmer who lives relatively close to the volcano.

The eruption

This picture shows steam and smoke from the eruption. It's taken yesterday, by my friend Þorgerður Einarsdóttir.

There are new pictures from the eruption here.
It's increasing slightly in strength this morning, but nothing major is happening just now.

Here is a video from this morning.

The Red cross evacuee center

Some scenes from the Red Cross evacuee center here in Vík.

In case of emergency (like now the volcano eruption) The Red cross volunteers (me included) open a center at a moments notice in the local school. There every evacuee is registered and assisted in finding accommodation for the night.
In Vík the womens association  made breakfast, lunch etc. for everybody.

Volcano

Eyjafjallajökull is erupting you can read about it here (just scroll down a bit): http://www.ruv.is/frett/eldgos-fimmvorduhalsi
It's not far from where I live, but still far enough so there is not danger. I didn't even have to evacuate. It's a small eruption so, but the road is closed and the development is followed closely,

Flag

While I can't show what I'm knitting now - Helene Magnusson's British flag cardi is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. Check it out!

p.s:  The pattern is free, and it´s here.

Alive

I'm very much alive - although the posting frequency may suggest otherwise. I don't have any knitting to show you at the moment, since I'm working on a magazine project at the moment, and they are not overly fond of exposure before the actual publishing. In the mean time I would like to show you this very happy photo I took this morning, at the village kindergarten.

Emilía and Þoka

Emilía and Þoka, originally uploaded by Harpa J.

Þoka on Emilía, a lovely local girl, outside the village stables. She is a keen horsewoman and she was just leaving the stables when I walked by and asked her to model the hat for me. She kindly obliged - and changed her headband for the hat.

Þoka

Þoka, originally uploaded by Harpa J.

FInally - the grey hat is done.

It's called Þoka - which means fog. It should of course be photographed in the mist or rain - and perhaps it will be, later.

Today's rock picture

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

After many grey days, we finally have glorious weather.

Life

I know it's probably the worst of clichés - but life does sometimes (read:very often) get in the way of my knitting. Or as it is now, in the way of my embroidery. I have a magazine assignment, I have promised by the end of this month, and I really must get started. But I really want to finish this gray hat I'm embroidering, and it's almost done, but not quite.

And now I have to go to a meeting, instead of embroidering away on my lovely hat. Ooops - it's starting in eight minutes (good thin I live in a small village where everything is close by. More later...

Finally a picture

My Olympic cardigan, all finished. I love it, it's light and airy, yet so warm.

Steeking

As many of my regular readers know, I finished knitting my Olympic cardigan last Sunday, in time for the closing ceremony.

After that, it was like, all energy was gone from me - at least towards that project. So I didn't steek it until last night. As always I was a little apprehensive towards the steeking process - and as always (lately at least) pleasantly surprised at how easy it really was.

Steeking with lopi is a breeze. Lopi's tendency to stick together helps immensely.
So now all I have left is to sew all thirteen buttons in and block it. The I'm done.

And yes - it fits this time around...

On the cover of Yarn Forward!

My dress is on the cover! Check it out here!