Cashmere Cafe

I have finally finished the Spring park cardigan. No photos, yet, because I have to do the seaming, which - after re-knitting sleeves for three (!! 3 !!) times - is easy-peasy.

Now I have all the energy to think about my next project. Since I am using my Bosnian Yarn it should be something that is done rather fast, so I can start wearing it soon. That means, I am not going to experiment, I will just take a pattern I like and do it proper way. Sounds easy, huh?

But picking up a pattern… so, after browsing through Ravelry for three evenings I’ve come up with short list of these lovely projects.

Camelia (Ravelry link; or Kate Gilbert)

Cherry (Ravelry link or My Fashionalble Life)

I also like Arisaig (more info with photos on Knitty) and Colette (photos and info here), but these are my second choice.

So, what do you think?

We’re back from our short trip to Bosnia. It was a nice trip, especially since I visited one of the best yarn stores I know of ;) Here’s what I bought:

4 skeins of brown and 4 skeins of green cotton for myself:

and 4 skeins of St.george for Tamara:

We’ve had wonderful sunny weather, so Tamara enjoyed herself immensly:

More words later :)

The other day I was surfing on the Rowan web page - my goal was to order Rowan 32 or (even better) a certain pattern from this magazine. And that is how I stumbled upon their pricelist. I don’t know, is it just me, or is there anybody else uspet by the fact that these guys see the world only in two currencies? I mean, how hard it is to publish your pricelist in Euro? Why, why, do I have to think in British Pounds?
If at least they would only publish it in Pounds only.
But nooooooo. They publish it in worlds two most important currencies - British Pound and US Dollar (lucky Americans!).

This is self-centerness, arrogance and ignorance in the most annoying form. 
It’s like saying, you, little midgets, who use other obscure currencies like Euro, Yen and similar are wellcome to use your calculators if you are so ignorant to not know how much 29,99 Birtish Pounds will cost you in your nevermind-which twinkling change.
The world turns around us, anyway.

I feel it’s been ages since I last posted. The fact is that I have been so sick last week, I was just laying in the bed feeling very miserable and very sorry for my self. The horrible weather didn’t improve the situation either.

Luckily, I am feeling much better (so that in fact I am going to work tomorrow (grrrr…why, why?)) and that means I can show you the nicest things my husband bought for me in NY. Here you go:

• lovely Malabrigo yarn
• Vogue Knitting: Crocheted scarves on the go (I am going to make at least three scarves from this book!)
• Needles case
• Sew in labels ‘Hand knit with love’ (my personal favourite!, this is so sweet, I can’t wait to use them)
• and two very big white plastic buttons (have no idea what those will be used for, but I like the idea of having such big buttons handy ;).

And here’s everything arranged neatly on our red carpet:

I wish I could travel to one of the big cities in the States and choose from all the accessories there are available… But on the other and - I migh get too frustrated to have to actually make up my mind and buy stuff. It’s much nicer if somebody else does that for me :)

And - I ripped off a part of hat which I crochet last summer for Tamara (turned out too big for her, but ths year it will fit perfectly). I re-did the edge and made last two rows a bit wider, so it looks like a proper hat now. I hope I can get her to model it for you very soon.

Grasswire left for NY and we are all by ourselves here in Kamnik. Everything is OK, well I am a bit ill (fevr, headache), but Tamara is not and that’s what counts.

I am looking forward to some nice yarn and kniting books which I will - hopefully - get on Monday. Hooray!