Oh dear...

How did this happen? One minute it's Christmas and the next it's March!?! What have I been doing, you might ask. I've moved all of my things from my student flat into my old room at my dad's (where did all that stuff come from???) and then moved myself and 23kg of my favorite things to Diemen, which is just outside Amsterdam. I'm currently studying Fashion and Management at Amsterdam Fashion Institute. It's a lot of work, but also a lot of fun... there's nothing quite like the Erasmus lifestyle :-)

Here is a cavalcade of my FO's, in no particular order. I'm sorry for the lack of descriptions, I hate putting together posts with many photos. It took all I have to just arrange them and the text in some semblance of aesthetic order.

Jaywalkers for my flatmate Sanna

Jaywalker cellphone cozy for me

Doll clothes for a school project, my own 'design.'

Ursus arm warmers for Sonja (then my brother's girlfriend, now his fiance!)

Cabled dress for myself

Tiny mittens for flatmate

Never anger the knitting gods

I fear I may have angered the almighty gods of knitting, how you may ask. I'm not sure. Perhaps it was my hubris, I was certain that I would be able to finish my Christmas projects long before Christmas. I have cast on the Branching out scarf for my father's girlfriend (eh, ladyfriend?) three times in the last three days. I keep messing up, if I wouldn't have frogged it I would almost be finished.

But, never fear. There is also some good news! I have figured out what was troubling my camera. Apparently it could not stand the cheap batteries I was using. I have since bought re-chargeable batteries and they are working like a charm.

Above you can see the, soon to be frogged, third incarnation of my Branching out scarf. It's like a "find five faults" picture, but with knitting! The yarn is Novita Olivia (70% bamboo, 30% Polyester) and was on sale for 1.50e/skein (~2.20$). It's very soft and doesn't look worse for wear, even though it's been frogged a few times!

Stupid camera

My camera is dead. Which sucks. Obviously! I'm going to look for the receipt and the box it came in and hope it has a 12month warranty (I bought it 11 months ago).

I finished the Halloween capelet ages ago and started knitting two different sock patterns, both x-mas gifts. I've also bought a new knitting book called "Knitting Classic Style: 35 Modern Designs Inspired by Fashion's Archives", by Veronik Avery. It is really brilliant and I've added a few of the projects to my list (which keeps growing and growing and growing)

Almost free

I've got an almost two week long holiday coming up, all I have to do is to study for a test and write a report over the weekend, take the test on Monday, go to a lecture on Tuesday and then I'll have 12 days of knitting to look forward to!

I've finished the first sleeve of my Tubey and I've knit about 10cm (4 inches) of the second one *yay* Not bad considering I started it about 7 days ago, huh? No pictures at this point though, couldn't get a good one of the whole thing so I gave up (for now).

Did you know that Finns use the most yarn in the world? Apparently we Finnish knitters buy enough to give every person in the country (give or take 5 million) 200g!

Also, I only just realized that Blogger has a spellchecking feature...