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News Flash: Princess Lea reveals her secret hobby: Jazz-ballet

loba — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:01:07 +0000

I spotted this piece of yarn bombing in Copenhagen. It is really cold….so I guess princess Lea needed to warm up her legs.

Cool people who made this!

Copenhagen: Mozarts Plads…

Cool – knitting graffiti

loba — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:50:21 +0000

Cool knitting graffiti spotted in Amsterdam.

All the good things knitting graffiti supports:

* Ensuring towns are soft, warm and fun places to be in

* It is reusable

* It takes control of the aesthetes without being intrusive

* Not expensive to remove (council can use the money on libraries…instead of removing painted tags)

* Of the moment (rain a couple of days and…)

I can only recommend reading “Yarn Bombing” by Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain or watching this youtube video on the topic…

Surprise Surprise – yet another knitter knitting the Baby Surprise Jacket

loba — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:23:47 +0000

This is my first Baby Surprise Jacket, but not the last.

I followed the pattern from Elizabeth Zimmermann’s – The Opinionated Knitter. I found the pattern was a little difficult to follow and I therefore had good help from Dawn Adcock’s notes.

When my dear mother in law saw my project – she gave me these lovely buttons. The yarn I used was Superwash Wool. The green wool: Lorna’s laces, color: 3507.

All that is needed now is a child to test the jacket on as I had no child to measure on while knitting… Does this make me an exploring knitter – just focusing on the pattern and not the use of the final product? Or just a knitter who also wants to be able to write Baby Surprise Jacket on her knitting CV…

This pattern is fun and truely surprising…

Knitting is really getting to me

loba — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:38:35 +0000

Knitting seems to put things in a new perspective…

How knitters can be quite aggressive especially facing Power bunny

loba — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:55:00 +0000