Spring

Of course winter is almost over, right? Well at least in my world February is the first spring month, because there is so much light suddenly! Nonetheless I started knitting a new scarf, that I had been looking at for a while.



I really like the colors, but the interesting part can only be seen when looking from the right angle:



A pattern appears, as it is knit with the shadowknitting technique. I am not quite sure yet if the pattern will be clear enuff, especially the parts where there is only one stitch that makes up the dark parts. I won't tell what it is until it is finished tho!

A new book

One of my birthday presents was "Favourite Socks" from Interweave. There are some really nice designs in there, so I had a hard time choosing which one to start with! After hours of consideration I started the Merino Lace Socks. I LOVE them so far. I don't use the circular loop method that is recommended for this project tho.

Alpine Knit Scarf

I have been knitting quite a lot on the Alpine Knit scarf, while watching the fantastic HBO series "Six Feet Under" on DVD.



I really like the middle part of the scarf, as it is much easier to memorize. I made a lot (!!) of mistakes in the lower border, and I remember having to frog and reknit parts of it, and sometimes simply ignoring the problems. It looks great now, tho.

Anniversary

My parents had their 50 years wedding anniversary a few days ago, and here they are:



There was a lot of dancing:



And good food:




And I was even wearing pretty clothes! (But what with my hair???):

Christmas and something about books!

I finished reading Pascal Mercier's Nachtzug nach Lissabon. It's really great, but do read it ONLY when you have time to concentrate, and time to think about it as well. Now to the fun part: pictures!! I did take some christmas pictures.

There hasn't been snow yet, but it was still very pretty, and winter ish some of the days:




And it was both pretty and rather spooky looking:




The 23rd my parents, one of my brothers and me celebrated lillejuleaften:



And the 24th we went to one one my other brothers and his family:



They have this really nice Ikea kitchen (if which I took an ugly pic):



mMmmmm æbleskiver:

Sock socks socks!

It'a all about socks!

I finished one pair:



And immediately started another pair (of course). This time a slightly more complicated pattern, the drunken bees from domesticrafts. I really liked this pattern from the very first time I saw it, some while ago. I did make a few changes, to fit my needlesize n stuff, and also I omitted a few things that seemed to me not worth the efford. I really like them!

Walk with me (until the battery died)

There was a little bit of sun yesterday, so we went for a walk. Unfortunately the camera batteries died already at the beginning of our walk. Here is what I got before the unfortunate end-of-them-damn-batteries-and-why-didnt-i-take-more-with-me??? incident.

There are some really old and mouldered buildings in this area of Copenhagen. Look at the detail, nice eh?



Broken cars just keep lying around.



There are some really really ugly old buildings...



And rather scary new ones too:



And then there is this strange glass gangway, connecting two apartment buildings: