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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Crocheting flowers making a Betsy

I've bought yarn from The Natural Dye Studio for my web shop so now I've started a crotchet project using their sock yarn called Nymph. I'm making Queenies Betsy Crochet Scarf (Ravelry link), the top picture shows the pattern and yarn. The pattern is easy to follow and it's the kind when you thin "only one more flower" all the time and then you suddenly realize that hours has passed. I love the yarn which is composed of British Blue Faced Leicester which is a soft wool, silk which makes it a bit shiny and cashmere.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

I'm still here

I'm sorry that I haven't been writing here in a long time. I really have so much to write about, I just think that I will write about it "tomorrow".

Well, now I'm working hard to get my business going, I hope that I will be able to open my web shop next week. It's a lot more work than I had imagined, especially all the paperwork that needs to be done and posted back and forth a few times. Is it only here in Sweden we need to go through all this? Okay, maybe I've been doing it the hard way but when you haven't done it before, you do it the way that you can, and with a lot of help from family, friends and other people that just want to be nice! I've got a few new friends on the way so far, and I'm sure I'll get to know a lot of other nice persons as well.

So I've been knitting in the evenings as usual, the only difference is that I've used the same yarns that I will sell in my shop. Right now I'm blocking a cardigan that I've knitted in Manos del Uruguays Silk Blend. It's a lovely yarn made of merino and silk so it's both soft and a little shimmering which makes it look luxurious I think.

I've knitted some other things as well but this is the only picture I've got right now. I'll try to keep you updated. If you want to, you can follow me at Facebook, though it's mostly in Swedish you can still ask me questions in English and use Google translate for the things in Swedish, it usually translates texts in a way that they makes sense.