Filed under: Living & crafting | Tags: Eskimo, fast knitting, garter stitch, gray, knitting, winter hat
And 2 hours later, here it is. My new winter hat. Which is actually the right size for me! Good news, huh? ;)
I just hope we get some real winter this year. Otherwise, I’ll have to wait till we travel to Prague to visit our dear friends who will be moving there in couple of months.
Do I look like an elf?
Too warm to wear in August
Sideview
Back view
Look closely ;)
Filed under: Living & crafting | Tags: brown, cardigan, Cherry, cotton, knitting
I know, I know it’s been terribly long since my last post. But – but! My laptop was not working for more than a month, so today is the first day I got it back from the service and I am already here, sharing the news with you.
I guess the biggest news is that I have (some time ago) finished Cherry. Even though this was a simple knit it took me quite a while to finish. First, I wanted to have it done by the book (i.e. pattern), and second, the pattern was not really written in a way that I could easily memorize.
So, I had to do the left sleeve three times!! Believe me – the third time it wasn’t done by the book.
Everything else is.
And guess what – it turnes out it’s too small. Apperently I did not check tha gauge too carefully, so it’s one size too small.
I am not upset about this, frankly. I knit because it is fun to knit, not solely to have garments to wear. And I have a very nice friend, who, I hope, will be happy to find this in post one day.
Here’s photos:
Folded on Tamara's chair
The whole cardi
Detail
Filed under: Living in Europe | Tags: Croatia, free days, holidays, Istra, Rovinj, vacation
We came back from Istra just three days ago and now we are all set to start working on refreshing our apartment. We had new windows installed and now we’re going to paint the walls, move the furniture, clean etc. So, we’re quite busy ;)
But it is not the apartment I wanted to write about. I have been occupied with a thought about vacation (holidays, or free days, whatever you like to call it) for quite some months now. In my opinion our system of taking time off is totally wrong and should be reformed. All my life, until I got my first job I was institutionalized in a certain rhytm, or maybe I should say, a certain flow of time.
It would go something like this: a year begins with September (when schoolyear in Slovenia starts), than you work for a couple of months and get to have your first holiday (usually one week around Christmas and New Year). After that you work some more till the winter vacation (2 weeks in February). Than starts a new, longer working episode which lasts until May when you have anothe week off (usually warming up for the big finale i.e. end of school year in June). At the end of June when the school is over there is whole summer stretching in front of you free to enjoy, have fun, do the things which you want to do.
I have been living in this (glorious) rhytm for about 20 years.
Than I finally got a job and I have to count my free days very carefully because you see I only have 21 of those. And man – I have to plan, and think well in advance, so as to know when will I be so tired that I just can’t go on and will drop dead of working if I don’t take a couple of those precious free days.
So now, I am here, thinking, “Enjoy, enjoy, be happy, this will last only 5 more days, than it’s all back, the old routine, no holidays in the near sight and you only have 10 free days left till the end of the year”.
I know this is not a very productive attitude and I should probably change it, but how do I do that? Hmmmmm. I’ll do some more thinking, I guess ;)
Here’s a photo taken last week in Rovinj, definitely the loveliest city on the Croatian coast in my opinion.
Rocks, painted as houses, lovely reminiscence of Istrian homes
