No knitting -lots of flowers

Another Clematis is blooming

The last Aguilera

Cucumbers in the green house

The Dahlias are gwowing fast because of the warm whether.

More flowers...

Because it's this time of the year....

Wild strawberries

Dahlias are popping up

Clematis

Lupins and aguileras

Flowers flowers flowers

If only the colour was different I'd like this Azalea.

My homemade trellis and a new Clematis to cover up the ugly green house

what are you doing????

Well, not blogging! That's for sure! But I have made a sweater using a drops pattern. I wanted to be able to unbottun the hut so I invented some crochet buttons.

And I am working on a second copy of the Mother Earth Scarf.

But to be honest I don't do much knitting these days with the weather being wonderfull and work being busy and so on....

Mother Earth pattern release

The pattern for the Mother Earth Shawl and Mother Earth Scarf has been released. You can find it at http://www.luldesign.blogspot.com/.

Until July 4th 50% of the sale goes to Unicef. so hurry up and bye it straight away :-)

Swallowtail -life after SSS

After so many weeks with SSS aka the Mother Earth shawl It is kind of hard to get back in the old routine -with several things on the needles and most important -more blogging!!!

But I managed to finish my swallowtail -which has been forwarded to my sister in law.

Comments (!!! sorry)

A while ago I started to have spam in my comments and decided to switch on the function where I have to accept comments before the are posted(apparently it isn't possible to delete comments once they have been posted -or it's me being blind and stupid)
Anyway, I forgot about it!! And just discoverd a pile of comments!! So sorry about that to those of you who wrote a comment and please don't stop. I really enjoy getting comments!

More Mother Earth pictures

Finally got around to do some outdoor pictures :-)

SSS revelation

I have been thinking quite a bit about how to reveal the theme, as I over the course of the kal have realized how different we all read the pattern. This is actually one of the great things about lace knitting, you can see as much or as little as you wish and your imagination lets you.
Anyway, my main thought about the design was to bring out circles and curves (which I pretty soon realized isn’t easy in lace knitting).
Circles to represent how almost everything in life is repeating itself again and again, the changing of the seasons, being born –growing up-getting old-dying and a new human born again, sunrise-daytime-sun set and night. It all moves in circles and we are all just part of a bigger event “Life” , let it be human or nature.
Curves to represent the curves of a woman –the main image of the stole being a rather modernistic shape of a pregnant woman. She is standing on the bigger circle that represents the Earth, with the tree of life in the center to remind us that we are all part of the world and we all live important lifes. We may look differently, but we are all the same –man or woman.

The name of the stole is

“Mother Earth”.

You can think of it as a tribute to life and growth, but it is also a reminder to us all that we are responsible to the earth we live on, to the people living on it and to the nature we all share. This is the reason for me wanting as many countries as possible to join the kal and for making it a charity kal aswell.
Thanks to all of you for joining and making this a wonderful knit along! Within the next couple of weeks it will be possible to buy the pattern for the Mother Earth stole & Mother Earth scarf. As mentioned before 50% of whatever raised the first two months after the release will be forwarded to Unicef.

SSS Clue 10

Only two clues left.

My own SSS made its first public appearance saturday at Great Grandmothers funeral.

SSS Clue 9

Clue 9. Only three to go. Notice what I have done -it's a hint ;-)

SSS Clue 8

Four to go. Next week will not be too complicated either, but for those knitting the long version this is where you will have to catch up.

And guess what...I have finished my own SSS and it's now blocking. I managed to pin it out to 75 by 195 cm (29.5" by 76.8")

SSS scarf

By the end of the kal and afterwards it will be possible to purchase a pdf file with the pattern for the Spring Shawl Surprise.

As an extra treat it will include the pattern for the SSS scarf. A scarf where you start out with the center pattern (the birds eye pattern), knit on the ends by using the live stitches from each end of the birds eye pattern (you have to cast on using a provisional cast on) and finally add the end borders as a knitted on border.

I just have to write down the pattern (why didn't I do that while knitting??) and have a testknitter to check it.

But at least I finally got around to blocking it the other day.

You can click the pictures for a bigger version.

SSS Clue 7

Clue 7! This is where it starts to get possible to guess the theme -or so I thought. There is one thing I could say to help out....but I am not going to...yet ;-) We still have 5 clues left, but the next couple of weeks will be quite easy before I throw people into the most complicated part of the shawl (which is as far as I am on my SSS -and I spend a looong time yesterday trikking back!)

Size: 108 x 66 cm / 42.5" x 25.9

And I'm still using Jaggerspun Superfine merino Ruby colorway on 3 mm needles

Spring is in the air...

Though it's freezing cold! But the sun is shining from a blue sky