My projectlist grew a bit today.
Because of the coming vacation I put project 6 on the list. From this yarn I would like to knit a shawl for a dear friend. I will put four balls of sock yarn into the suitcase (the three for the Chevron Stripes and Curaçao), but if I don't feel like to knit socks, I can continue with something bigger.
I named the project 'Westerland' and the pattern is from the book 'Lavish Lace', 'Rainstorm'. Very appropriate for a recipient living in Hamburg, don't you think so?
Project 7 result from a special mood. It made my fingers itch to knit a shawl from cuddling yarn. However 'Bebenhausen Windows' has more priority and together with the neccessary projects for Eastern it might be too late to start with a warm yarn. We will see. The project is named 'Ashley' and I bought the yarn last spring in Funchal on Madeira.
Today the next three projects came to the list, not knitting but cross stitching. My parents and my aunt are the only ones, who will get their occasion cards in cross stitch (in between the list is so long, every other solution would be too time consuming). Additionally my aunts birthday is at the end of February. As I don't have the heart to put my knitting into the plane, I allways keep a stitching project, this time the card for my aunt. The pattern is from Cross Stitch Gold 40, cards in Chines stile from Sue Page, I choose the flower. There are only for colours in blue, for the fabric I will choose Wedding40, because the motive is not so small and this card will be send by mail, so I can only use the maximum size of B6.
For Eastern I chooses two Fabergé-Eggs from Anne McGregor from Cross Stitch Gold 38, but I will have to order some of the material, Rayon and yarn from DMC and perls from Mill Hill. The green card is for my aunt, the blue one for my parents. I have to think about the fabric, I will use, Edinburgh or Aida 18ct. Edinburgh matches better to the fine materials, on the other hand there will noch be much fabric visible. We will see...
By the way, I thought about to put an addional page on the left side with my projectlist 2008.
But before this, here is something more about current projects:
I finished 'Bonaire' this week
Bonaire
'River Rapids' from Sockbug-Blog
Caribbean-Set from Kirsten 'Handgefärbt' And I startet 'Chevron Stripes in red'
Of course it would have been much logical to start the third ball from the Caribbean Set, but I considered, that three times Chevron-Pattern could be boring, so I would have a bit more variety. The yarn is very thin, so I knit with needles 2,25, the cuff with 64 stitches, the pattern even with 68. But it works and will not be too big.
The sweater is now separated into forth and back.
He will not travel to Lanzarote, the project is too big and complex and I think, the yarn will be too warm. The other projects are better, as well as I surely don't need much tools knitting them.
