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My summer blues is here again – I just realized that yesterday. I feel like nagging about all the unfair things that happen to me. And I feel a bit sorry for myself.  All I want to do is just sit around and NOT go to work. Ahhhhh… but I am not going to spoil the blogging fun with complaining, instead I will share with you a list of things, that I will do one day. I will:

• Own an old house with a stone bench and big tree in the yard.
• Have enough space to display all our beautiful kilims.
• Buy more kilims.
• Enjoy my breakfast over a view of winter-fairytale.
• Tell people to get off my back when I feel like it.
• Travel to Peru and Bolivia. And Japan.
• Grow my own vegetables and also some fruits.
• Have my own sewing desk.
• Devote time to excersise.
• Train myself not to be so dilligent about my work.
• Travel to Macedonia.
• Spend a week in London studying textile patterns from all over the world in Victoria&Albert Museum
• Learn more about Balkan art of knitting.
• Write a fiction-book.
• Finish my Masters degree.
• Move to Turkey. Or Italy.
• Spend a whole summer on the seaside.
• Cycle to work.
• Not feel sorry for the summer days that have passed.
• Live in a big city.
• Invite friends to romantic orient-style dinner (in our old house).
• Change my clothing style.
• Have a collection of herbs in terracota-pots.
• Lose weight.
• Think positive and not be suspicious about everything (well almost…) around me.

A bit of everything

I know I must have written this after I finished my first Baby Moderne blanket BUT I shall say it again. I love this pattern. It’s simple, it’s inteligent, it’s versatile, it’s modern – and it’s free. The Baby Moderne I knit for my friend is done. I am not posting any photos until she receives it, though.

I wanted to make it in the green shades, but living in a country where knitting is something only grannies do, it’s impossible to find enough shades of green that match, so it’s a combination of green, gray and blue.

As I was searching on Ravelry for a fun baby project I found a couple of baby blankets I lsimply love, my favourite currently being OpArt, published in Kitty magazine. My husband has been encouraging me to start working on it, but… Here are three reasons I might not start working on this project:

• First of all my mother is crocheting a pink blanket for our Seconda (as we currently refer to the kicking person in my uterus.),
• second we already have a couple of lovely baby blankets that Prima(donna) (=Tamara) won’t be using anymore (at least not in the stroller) and
• third I feel somehow uncomfortable that I knit ‘just’ a cardigan for Tamara, so it’s unfair to make a big blanket for Seconda.

So, I’ll probably be making this lovely Drops cardigan for her. 

I hope that those of you who have more than one child can share their experience on how they “equal” things out between your children. Do you worry of not treating them the same? Of giving more to one that the other(s)?

Finally, I received a package with books from Amazon and I am reading E.Zimmerman’s Knitter’s Almanach - actually, it’s very interesting and funny. It’s readable (and resourcefull) even if you use it just as a bed-time reading. :) Good night.