Heya,
I finally did it. I left Germany, moved to London. With two bags. And my country spinner. Which is bigger and heavier than I thought. But we made it alright and love our new place.
My mom sent me a packet with a lot of fiber and my dying pot. So...I have a lot of things to do. Spin. Dye. Spin some more. Knit. The usual.

I really really love snow. I got snowflake earrings, Let-it-snow-socks, I crochet snowflakes, I love to include them in spinning and I just can't see enough of it. I also was thinking about doing Guerilla Knitting for a while (after reading about Guerilla Gardening and considered that a while but could not find anyone else around here) and was looking for a good occasion to do it.
Last weekend, when this relatively moderate snow fall started over here (not as much as in other parts in Europe, though) I combined the one and the other and started knitting a snowflake graffiti. I used some old handspun in multiple red merino and some random acryllic yarn and went on practicing intarsia knitting.

It turned out quite ok despite the difference in the yarns and I went out to put the snowflake to its new destination. I decided on a sign post on the square in front of our appartment. It was a really exciting feeling to get out at 2 am, trying to avoid people who were still walking around in the city and to find a place and attach it without being noticed. I took some more photos by daylight when it was already covered with snow.



This morning it was still there and I'm really curious to see how long it will. This is definitely something I will do again, I already have many ideas and another source of inspiration was the "Yarn Bombing" book I finally received today which gave me some additional ideas. But that is another story and will be told another time.

Happy holidays everyone! Today is the day! The three winners for our holiday special are chosen.

We had 29 people to reply to the blog posting and who were in the running for the set of stitch markers. I wrote the chronological numbers on lots and the first good luck fairy (my dear boyfriend, so it was a very bearded fairy) drew #17 which is ESME.






Four people sent us back project photos and the winner is MARIE with her "Engel I Snoen" which is really cool and I'm particularly happy for her.

The Tartan&Kilt yarn will stay in Germany and will travel to the North to TIKALINA. She also sent back a photo of her adorable polka dot crochet scarf. There were six customers during the time span of our giveaway and my mother drew the lots.

Congratulations you three and thanks a lot everyone for participating, and even if you did not win we are very thankful to have you as our customers.

We received back two more project photos.
The first is from Katharine, who bought the "Elinor Dashwood", a yarn which I liked a lot and planned to keep at first, but I could not find a good pattern to work with it for a while. It is made from brown alpaca, merino and baby camel fiber, violet merino and some white merino and silk and contains little seed beads, faceted bohemian glass beads, violet sequins and white faux pearls.
Katherine knitted it up into a lacy cowl which is a really cool project for the yarn, I like a lot how it turned out:



Tikalina made a crochet scarf from the "Polkadot" yarn, which is a cute yarn with fabric stripes. The scarf is really a neat idea and I adore it.



Thanks a lot, guys, for all the pretty photos and for sharing it!

For at least a year I had this idea - knit a very special hat from a handspun xmas tree art yarn. With glowing fairy lights and lots of sparkling stuff.
Well, I finally did it and it is for sale here in our shop. I had a skein left over from last year, mainly because of bad timing (why must this time of the year go away so quickly??? I could spend at least 4 more weeks with spinning xmassy yarns and also doing other stuff like shopping for the perfect presents and baking cookies).

The yarn is spun from extrafine merino in greens and white, and includes lots of sparkly things like beads, sequins, stars, garland and tinsel.



It turned out to be just perfect for the cause. It was just enough for the hat and the included garland is just placed on the right spot, the repeats of the different coolors right how I hoped they would turn out! The only problem is the tinsel - I was not so convinced about it in the first place and it doesn't stay in. But it could be removed completely or I could also come up with a way to include more.

Here is a close-up:



So one frosty afternoon I braced myself against the cold winter wind and went out into the snowy park to take some photos of it. Please excuse my weird look, being cold, watched by passers-by and trying to get some good shots before my finger freeze was a bit much to manage at the same time.

At least someone was so nice to put up a giant mirror wall in the park - as a part of the annual "Trees & Lights" Festival in Geneva

I also managed to include the chain of lights! It consists of tiny LEDs in red, green and yellow and is powered by two 1,5V AA batteries. It is just a short string and I put in in a spiral on the hat. And it GLOWS!

First a little reminder for our still ongoing giveaway special. You have one more day to leave a comment to win the set of stitch markers, buy some yarn from our shop or send us back pictures of your project with our yarns.

Here are some pictures we have received - and maybe some inspiration for you if you are looking for some ideas for what to create of our yarns.

First a cape/cozy from Fazzo:
Teetante took part in an art yarn swap with the theme "nature sprites" and sent her the yarn "Tree Spirit". Nice work!



Marie got inspired by the yarn "Silver Frost" - and the song "Angel in the snow" by her favourite (just a little understatement) band A-ha too knit her scarf "Engel i Snoen". She combined several yarns to an a-ma-zing scarf! It turned out like a dream, just look at the details, like the tibetan silver charms she included at the end!




She also knitted another scarf - "Angel's Delight", which she still plans to sell to donate 100% of the price for breast cancer charity. If you are interested, she will be happy to be notifyed.

More pictures soon!

Pink (no, not the singer) was so nice to feature our Poinsettia yarn in her blog "That Crafty Bitch"!



Thanks a lot, we are really honored. She also runs two etsy shops, one with nice buttons, recycled clothes and bags and other pretty things, the other one with her handmade pottery. Check it out!