Terminänderung

Achtung! Am Dienstag, 20. Februar, findet kein Strickeria-Treffen statt! Soweit ich weiß ist der Grund der Faschingsdienstag, und die "Esszimmer"-Reservierungsverantwortlichen wußten nicht ob da eine Faschingsveranstaltung stattfindet.
Also, feiert schön Fasching, wir sehen uns in der Woche danach wieder!

Fotos!

So, jetzt habe ich einmal ein paar Minuten um die Fotos von Monikas Pullover hier einzustellen. Leider sind die Bilder ziemlich dunkel und zeigen die Farbe gar nicht gut, aber dafür kommen die Zöpfe prima raus.


Das ist das gute Stück - schön, nicht?
Und hier nochmal der mittlere Zopf in Nahaufnahme.

Guten Tag

Hallo Leute,
heute erfolgreich mit Hilfe von Dorothee angemeldet.
Viele Grüße Marion

Sachen zum Gucken

Damit wir mal wieder was zum Anschauen haben... der Film geht zwar etwas lange, ist aber sehenswert! Und Lautsprecher einschalten nicht vergessen.



Einfach draufklicken!

Shedir und Fotos

Shedir, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Started: 26th January 2007
Finished: 03rd February 2007
Yarn: Wolle Rödel Soft Merino, 100% superwash merino, colour #359
Needle: Two 4.5 mm Addi Turbo circs (using 2 circs method)
Pattern: Shedir from Knitty's Breast-Cancer Awareness Mini-Issue
Modification: Since I'm using bigger yarn and needles than called for, I did only 3 repeats of the cable pattern before decreasing

Yes, I finished off Shedir on Saturday night...and I'd been wearing it since. I can't exactly say that the pattern is fun to knit. It was quite a fair bit of work to knit all these cables...thank goodness I know how to cable without a cable needle, otherwise I'd have gone bonkers dealing with the extra needle (although I used 2 circs instead of dpns to knit this).

Shedir, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Shedir, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

One of the nicest features that I find on Shedir is the crown decrease. It makes quite a nice pattern.

I might knit another Shedir some time in the future, but I think I'll go for a smaller gauge and better yarn. As for now, I'm satisfied with this one. :-)

And FYI, I had the yarn in my stash already and I'm not yet cheating on the StAL 2007!

Hypovereins Central, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Anyhow, here's a photo I made yesterday for Project Spectrum 2.0. Nothing though in comparison to the HDR version from Frank taken with his Canon EOS 20D.

Anyway, on Saturday, Frank had to go to work really early and no, this was not usual. Anyhow, he had to be there quite early and so in the process, also woke me up and the day got kinda thrown out of pace. I spent the morning trying to finish off my Shedir (but ended up finishing it over at Frank's in the evening).

When Frank got back to me early in the afternoon, we couldn't decide on what to do. Frank suggested we go swimming. I wasn't sure about it since my parents were ringing me up on that evening, but I got my stuff together anyway. On the way to Frank's, however, we started talking about dinner and Frank got this idea of doing a Japanese Sukiyaki for dinner. So we ended up going shopping for the ingredients instead. You can see the photos of the food that Frank made. I don't think that there's any need to mention how delicious the meal was, right? ;-)

On Sunday, we went out to take some photos...above is one of the good shot I got. Here are Frank's loots worked in HDR (if you have Flickr, then go leave him some nice comments).

Well, that's just about it, but before I leave you, here are two more I got from yesterday:

Snowdrop (Galantus nivalis), originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Crocus in February, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

And yes, that's a crocus. There are heaps of croci everywhere, and it's February.

The weather's gone mad. The forecast's saying that it's going to snow tomorrow....even though the temperature right now is about 6 degrees centigrade. And it had been pretty warm the past week...so temperature's going to plummet again tonight....

...oh well, I have my Shedir anyway. :-p

Y'all have a great week!

Current Mood: Good
Food for the ears: Pokarere ana - Kiri Te Kanawa. Listen to it on my Vox.

Über: Project Spectrum 2.0

Meilenweit Magico, Colour #2528, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Meilenweit Magico, Farbnummer #2528

Für Project Spectrum 2.0: Februar - März, Blau / Weiß / Grau

Deathly Hallows Neuigkeiten und die heißen Fotos von Daniel Radcliffe beiseite.....

Jaaaaaaaaa, es ist so weit für Project Spectrum 2.0!!!

Die ersten zwei Monaten drehen sich um die Farben blau, weiß und grau. Als ich mir überlegt habe, was ich dafür machen könnte, fiel mir ein, dass ich doch ein Ball von dem Meilenweit Magico habe. Und wer hätte gedacht, dass ich alle Farben in einem Ball einfach so wiederfinden würde!!!

Nee, nee, ich habe kein neues Ball gekauft. Heute ist doch auch der Anfang von meinem Knit From Your Stash 2007: Yarn Diet. Überraschenderweise wurde dises Ball ergattert vor mehr als einem Jahr, gerade zu der Zeit, als ich angefangen hatte zu stricken. ;-)

Ich weiß noch nicht ganz genau, was für Socken ich mit der Wolle stricken möchte....vielleicht noch ein paar JayWalker...aber ich glaube nicht, dass die Meilenweit Streifen den Zigzagmuster des JayWalkers so gut wie die Farbstreifen von Regia Canadian Colours hervorbringen könnte.....

.....und nun, wenn nur meine von gestern bestellten Addi Turbos Rundstricknadeln ankommen würden, so dass ich die MagicLoop Methode ausprobieren könnte....

Aktuelle psychische Zustand: Hervorragend trotz Kopfschmerzen
Ohrwurm: Klaviersonate Nr. 53 in e-moll (Hob. XVI:34) - Joseph Haydn

On...Knitting Content, Pointy Sticks Contest & executive decision

Sorry, keine Lust, das ganze Ding zu Übersetzen:

JayWalker #2, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Started: 22nd December 2006
Finished: WIP
Yarn: Regia Canadian Colour 4-ply sock yarn, colour #4733 "Ottawa"
Needle: 2.5 mm/ US #1/#2 Inox dpns
Pattern: JayWalker by Grumperina on MagKnits
Modifications: Shorter leg, otherwise I'd run out of yarn for the second one

Sorry that I haven't been posting....life kinda got the overhand recently. Ever since I started teaching two more English classes it seems that I kind of fell into the state of constant Zombie-ness. Yeah, my problem, I just go to bed too late and have to get up early. Mea culpa.

Anyhow, the main reason I'm doing this post is to enter Christine's Pointy Sticks Podcast Podcastiversary Contest...and so I need to talk about socks, or to be more specific, hand-knit socks.

• Why do I love/hate to knit socks?
• I'm not so sure if I love knitting socks or not, definitely not hating it. But I'm sure that I kinda like it. It's small and portable and usually fits in the small-ish bag I normally carry around with me (I don't really like big messenger bags anymore, used to, but not anymore). It's quick enough to knit a couple of rows on my short tube rides and I get the kick out of people's reaction when they see an Asian guy knitting on the tube on something colourful, small and dainty. *LOL* And the end result is pretty amazing. I get some cozy warm socks for myself. By wearing my colourful socks I break out of the monotonous colour pits guys usually fall in with their colour preference on clothes, without me ending up looking like a clown (coz the socks are under my jeans, obviously!).

• What sock yarns or patterns do I love?
• Well, I haven't found a sock yarn that I love just yet (okay, maybe Wollmeise sock yarn, but I haven't ordered one to try out yet). I have heaps of the Regia Canadian Colour in my stash...one skein of each colour I could get my hands on. As for patterns, after I finished my first JayWalker before Christmas, I started looking around for another pattern to no avail...and just resorted to knitting another pair of JayWalker. So I guess that it's my favourite pattern for the moment.

• My favourite sock method?
• Well, I'm a traditional 5 dpns kind of guy. Tried the 2 socks on 2 circs one and the yarn from two balls twisting around each other just drive me nuts (*note to self: frog those socks soon*), but I'm sure that I'd find it pretty okay with just one sock on 2 circs. This morning I just succumbed and ordered two 100 cm (length) Addi Turbos in 2.00 mm and 2.5 mm each...so that I could try out the MagicLoop....so, the prognosis would be: Socks on the way!!!!

So that's all I could think about for now. Sock knitting is fun!!!

Sweet Pea Shawl #2, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Started: Beginning of July 2006
Finished: 22nd January 2007
Yarn: Wolle Rödel Toscana colour #13635, 50% cotton, 50% Polyacrylic Microfibre
Hook: 6 mm hook
Pattern: Sweet Pea Shawl by Amie Hirtes in Debbie Stoller's Happy Hooker

I was talking about an FO last week, but that I can't post about it yet because it's going to someone? Well, that someone got sick and couldn't come to the SnB to receive the mysterious gift....and I'm just way too impatient to wait until I can post....coz I'm proud of the result. So, here it is!

The project had been sitting in the UFO box for more than half a year before it was completed. But well, it's finished now.

The shawl is huge....it spans about 1.80 m. The length is....oh, I don't know, but if I wrap it around myself, the bottom fringe just brushes the ground (and I'm 1.78 m tall).

Shedir, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Started: 26th January 2007
Finished: WIP
Yarn: Wolle Rödel Soft Merino, 100% superwash merino, colour #359
Needle: Two 4.5 mm Addi Turbo circs (using 2 circs method)
Pattern: "Shedir" from Knitty's Breast-Cancer Awareness Mini-Issue
Modification: Since I'm using bigger yarn and needles than called for, I'll be doing only 3 repeats of the cable pattern before decreasing

Finally, last Friday while out on the yarn crawl with the SnB gals, my ears were hurting me because it was cold. Again, mea culpa for not having a beanie with me...but it ruins my hair! *Oh, vanity!* Okay, I have some headwear but I want something new...so I started Shedir after having seen so many people doing it...but the most inspiring was Brooklyntweed's version (also in brown, but with the right yarn).

However, the weather in Munich just got warmer again *drat!* But I'm determined to get Shedir finished soon.

Right now, I'm resisting a very strong bout of Cast-On-itis. But I think that I can only resist the urge until the Addi Turbos arrive. :-p

Lastly, in the lights of things that have started to dawn on me, I have made a radical decision and decided that I'm going to join the Knit From Your Stash 2007. I don't have a huge criteria just yet, but these are things I'll try to achieve:

• I'm doing this on a month to month basis, starting with February, i.e. tomorrow.
• This means that I won't be buying any yarn for February at all with the exception of:
• If I don't have yarn for Project Spectrum 2.0 (but I think I have something Blue/White/Grey already) and want to knit something for the project, then I'm allowed to get something for it...however, I could resort to doing something else, too (translate: photography, for example)
• I receive yarn as a gift
• I need yarn to finish a WIP
• Needles, patterns, books, etc. are not counted as yarn
• I don't know about sock yarns, but I'm sure I have enough in my stash already

So, that's it....help me being strong by sending me yarns as presents and give me kind words. This month will be hard, but if I'm successful, I will probably carry on into March. ;-)

Y'all have a great week!

Current Mood: Good, with a touch of Zombie-ness....need my X-glass of coffee....*all hail Darth Senseo!*
Food for the ears: Bayern 4 Klassik

Das Farbspektrum gemäß der Wollmeise

The Colour Wheel according to Wollmeise, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Probesträngchen von Rohrspatz & Wollmeise

Noch ein Schal: My So-Called Scarf #2

My So-Called Scarf #2, originally uploaded by elemmaciltur.

Started: 23rd December 2006
Finished: 20th January 2007
Yarn: Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Worsted Merino-Lambwool in the colourway "Rhabarber" ("Rhubarb")
Needles: 6 mm/US #10 Inox circs
Pattern: My So Called Scarf from Sheep in the City
Modifications: Instead of a 30-stitch pattern, I reduced it to 28 stitches and add the chain edge (4 stitches in total, so that adds up to 32 stitchs), because I have only one hank of the wool and the scarf's going to be short anyway.