Cashmere Cafe

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!

What is the proper way to eat a banana? My daughter thinks you should hold it like corn and work on it from left to right. See?

We’ve had a very nice weekend - it was sunny and warm and I was just about to write that the spring is here, but I don’t dare to do that, because every time I mention spring I spoil everything - i.e. next day it starts to snow.

This week I was looking at all those beautiful photographs from cherry trees in blossom in Japan (take a look here, these are really nice), so it made me want to share some blossoms from Slovenia with you. These have been taken today:

Have fun!