Did I write about this already?
It was the fist BSJ I ever did, and it was small, I guess it fits a newborn, but there was no newborn in my surrounding who would have been able to wear it, so it will be worn by a stuffed lion whose name is 'Tiger'. He is the toy of my niece, and she loved the jacket.
I have knitted up one for her, also, but have never seen her wear it, maybe it was a little too big? and she needs to grow into it still?.
I used three sports weight strands of yarn for the bog version and 5 mm needles.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
books I got from mom
Look what she saved for me :-)
Most pround makes me the posession of the most right one, a Debbie Bliss childrens sweater book. Lots of inspiration for knitting up cozy things for my nephews and nieces.
The Sandra in the middle is mens sweaters only, some a little outdated in colour choices or the neck treatment, but nothing an accomplished knitter cant handle :-) and bf browsed through and found one he wants to have, double knitted, warm and nothing to be altered on it since it is a classical shape crew neck sweater.
Time for yarn recycling and starting to document it for a tutorial.
There are some interesting projects in the Verena, too. I will have to alter some of them to make them more 21. century like but all in all a good find.
Someone wanted to ditch them and mom saved them from the garbage bin and made me very happy with them.
Most pround makes me the posession of the most right one, a Debbie Bliss childrens sweater book. Lots of inspiration for knitting up cozy things for my nephews and nieces.
The Sandra in the middle is mens sweaters only, some a little outdated in colour choices or the neck treatment, but nothing an accomplished knitter cant handle :-) and bf browsed through and found one he wants to have, double knitted, warm and nothing to be altered on it since it is a classical shape crew neck sweater.
Time for yarn recycling and starting to document it for a tutorial.
There are some interesting projects in the Verena, too. I will have to alter some of them to make them more 21. century like but all in all a good find.
Someone wanted to ditch them and mom saved them from the garbage bin and made me very happy with them.
Socks for Alex
Finally a picture of the socks I had started for Gabe, but the cuffs were too tight, so I decided his one year younger cousin will get them.
It is a lacey pattern which looks like twisted rib, but there are no purls involved.
I hope we can get a picture where one can see the details better, then I will post about it in an extra entry.
To the front there is a sockie for sockie made from self dyed yarn in orange and blue with some white left.
It has a classical heel flap and turned heel and the banded toe decreases like the big socks I sometimes make.
In a big sock I tried to provoke pooling, so it looks a little like monet skies and I am itching to try it out, but before I do this, I will have to finish some UFOs and free some needles.
It is a lacey pattern which looks like twisted rib, but there are no purls involved.
I hope we can get a picture where one can see the details better, then I will post about it in an extra entry.
To the front there is a sockie for sockie made from self dyed yarn in orange and blue with some white left.
It has a classical heel flap and turned heel and the banded toe decreases like the big socks I sometimes make.
In a big sock I tried to provoke pooling, so it looks a little like monet skies and I am itching to try it out, but before I do this, I will have to finish some UFOs and free some needles.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
not feeling well
well, that is my mental state ;-)
Lots of things from the past rear their ugly heads, and I dont really want to go into it here, since I guess it is not so much of interest for people.
Whenever I feel down I try to get some creative stuff going and I rediscovered origami again.
It is amazing of how many good diagrams there are around the net, and here be dragon :
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/786/corriedragon24it.gif
I like it a lot, and it happens to be that a blue dragon is my inner protector.
So I made up one and it sits on top of my monitor now watching over me.
Knitting is still going on, but no pictures in particular. When I feel like facing the challenge I finally will upload the pictures of the little crow we rescued two years ago. It is such a beautiful creature, and he even had blue eyes, and I wonder if all crows have blue eyes or if they darken to brown or almost black when the birds mature. This one was a mere nestling, still not really able to sit perched up on a stick when we found him. Must have fallen out of the nest and had great luck he was not injured, but he was undernourished and ate a lot while we cared for him. He went to a wildlife rehab place two days after we found him and there he was growing up in a flock of other young crows and when big enough they were left free to live around the rehab center. They told us, most of the birds stay around and dont wander off too far, so whenever we get in that area, we wonder if one of the crows on the field is 'ours'.
I love him even though he has not really been a long lasting part in my life.
They are so light, and so powerful, and I dont get why people are scared of crows.
This one was special because he stumbled into my life, and left a lasting impression.
Lots of things from the past rear their ugly heads, and I dont really want to go into it here, since I guess it is not so much of interest for people.
Whenever I feel down I try to get some creative stuff going and I rediscovered origami again.
It is amazing of how many good diagrams there are around the net, and here be dragon :
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/786/corriedragon24it.gif
I like it a lot, and it happens to be that a blue dragon is my inner protector.
So I made up one and it sits on top of my monitor now watching over me.
Knitting is still going on, but no pictures in particular. When I feel like facing the challenge I finally will upload the pictures of the little crow we rescued two years ago. It is such a beautiful creature, and he even had blue eyes, and I wonder if all crows have blue eyes or if they darken to brown or almost black when the birds mature. This one was a mere nestling, still not really able to sit perched up on a stick when we found him. Must have fallen out of the nest and had great luck he was not injured, but he was undernourished and ate a lot while we cared for him. He went to a wildlife rehab place two days after we found him and there he was growing up in a flock of other young crows and when big enough they were left free to live around the rehab center. They told us, most of the birds stay around and dont wander off too far, so whenever we get in that area, we wonder if one of the crows on the field is 'ours'.
I love him even though he has not really been a long lasting part in my life.
They are so light, and so powerful, and I dont get why people are scared of crows.
This one was special because he stumbled into my life, and left a lasting impression.
Monday, October 29, 2007
What tarot card are you?
now after a while I retested and came out as this:
You are The Sun
Happiness, Content, Joy.
The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent.
Young, healthy, new, fresh. The brain is working, things that were muddled come clear, everything falls into place, and everything seems to go your way.
The Sun is ruled by the Sun, of course. This is the light that comes after the long dark night, Apollo to the Moon's Diana. A positive card, it promises you your day in the sun. Glory, gain, triumph, pleasure, truth, success. As the moon symbolized inspiration from the unconscious, from dreams, this card symbolizes discoveries made fully consciousness and wide awake. You have an understanding and enjoyment of science and math, beautifully constructed music, carefully reasoned philosophy. It is a card of intellect, clarity of mind, and feelings of youthful energy.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Bremen travel
We had to get up early to catch the S1 from Heidelberg to Mannheim and board the ICE to Hannover.
All went well except we forgot the apples and some other minor stuff.
Approaching Frankfurt, there was an announcement that the engine is failing and that they will have to repair it. This made a delay, which was getting even bigger when it came to the point where they told us it was not to be repaired, and they had to use the engine on the other end of the train and that we had to take a detour to turn the train around.
This ammounted to almost an hour running late.
In Hannover we met Sascha and his mother who were going to the conference as well. We did not get the 'apologize' package of juice and sweets whyever, but had some company from then on :-)
We boarded a totally overcrowded RE then, because the connecting IC did not wait for us. It was the purest of horrors Aspie can experience, lots of stressed people, a big backpack to manage, and not being on time. I still wonder why S. had such a calm state he was in.
When we finally arrived at Bremen Hauptbahnhof, we had to wait for a RB to Schoenebeck and walk through unknown streets to the university the conference took place at.
All very late, but we made it there with no great injuries except the one that all went so totally different from expected. I missed out a talk I had wanted to hear, so I thought.
It turned out the programme was changed and the talk was to be held in the time we were there, so I did not miss it at all.
We had the opportunity to stay on campus and this made it easier on us for the stay, so we dont get lost between transfer from and to campus.
Such totally new surrounding always tells me over and over again how lost I feel when in new territory. Reading the signs, taking them literally, landing in streets where there are no signs to follow, construction areas nobody had talked about, unclear descriptions which only make sense after we had found the place, all such things show how the perception is so totally different.
There was the desctiption of crossing a bridge over the Autobahn, but it actually was a bridge over the train tracks, there was the talk about the second street left after the bridge, but due to the construction all looked so different, we could not make out the second street. There were people passing by on bikes, but we did not dare to ask, untill one passer by asked us if he could help.
There was a worried contact person on campus and then, when it was too late, I had the idea, I should have called her from the train and told her about the delay.
It was good to meet old friends there, and get to know new people, and find ways of helping to make the world less chaotic for people with different neurological wiring.
All went well except we forgot the apples and some other minor stuff.
Approaching Frankfurt, there was an announcement that the engine is failing and that they will have to repair it. This made a delay, which was getting even bigger when it came to the point where they told us it was not to be repaired, and they had to use the engine on the other end of the train and that we had to take a detour to turn the train around.
This ammounted to almost an hour running late.
In Hannover we met Sascha and his mother who were going to the conference as well. We did not get the 'apologize' package of juice and sweets whyever, but had some company from then on :-)
We boarded a totally overcrowded RE then, because the connecting IC did not wait for us. It was the purest of horrors Aspie can experience, lots of stressed people, a big backpack to manage, and not being on time. I still wonder why S. had such a calm state he was in.
When we finally arrived at Bremen Hauptbahnhof, we had to wait for a RB to Schoenebeck and walk through unknown streets to the university the conference took place at.
All very late, but we made it there with no great injuries except the one that all went so totally different from expected. I missed out a talk I had wanted to hear, so I thought.
It turned out the programme was changed and the talk was to be held in the time we were there, so I did not miss it at all.
We had the opportunity to stay on campus and this made it easier on us for the stay, so we dont get lost between transfer from and to campus.
Such totally new surrounding always tells me over and over again how lost I feel when in new territory. Reading the signs, taking them literally, landing in streets where there are no signs to follow, construction areas nobody had talked about, unclear descriptions which only make sense after we had found the place, all such things show how the perception is so totally different.
There was the desctiption of crossing a bridge over the Autobahn, but it actually was a bridge over the train tracks, there was the talk about the second street left after the bridge, but due to the construction all looked so different, we could not make out the second street. There were people passing by on bikes, but we did not dare to ask, untill one passer by asked us if he could help.
There was a worried contact person on campus and then, when it was too late, I had the idea, I should have called her from the train and told her about the delay.
It was good to meet old friends there, and get to know new people, and find ways of helping to make the world less chaotic for people with different neurological wiring.
Autism Conference, Oct. 19. and 20. 2007 Bremen
In Bremen there was a conference concerning Autism. The intention was that researchers and people dealing with Autism in the one or other way can meet and learn from each other.
One of the workshops was lead by Dr. Brita Schirmer (Berlin) and the participants were the people to be seen on the picture. All either have Aspergers Syndrome ore are High functioning Autistic.
Some have received their diagnosis rather early, and some just recently. The questions to be answered were concerning how therapy can look like to be helpful for autistic people and how the experiences concerning therapy were. There were the most different experiences, but all in all the group was having the same feelings about asking for more acceptance, and openness, and maybe some form of community for the more severe afflicted, so they can live as independent as possible and still have the contacts they need for help.
It was a very intense time, but all went very disciplined and the audience was following through with the 'behaviour pleas' we had issued before. No coming and going, no chatter or mobile ringing, no loud handclapping at the end, but the applause known in the hearing impaired community (raising the hands and shaking them).
I was amazed at how good it went, and that we were able to cover all questions.
I think all had a good experience there, and I also hope the many therapists in the audience could take some helpful info with them and will be able to apply them in their work with autistics.
More about the rest of the conference in a different entry.
One of the workshops was lead by Dr. Brita Schirmer (Berlin) and the participants were the people to be seen on the picture. All either have Aspergers Syndrome ore are High functioning Autistic.
Some have received their diagnosis rather early, and some just recently. The questions to be answered were concerning how therapy can look like to be helpful for autistic people and how the experiences concerning therapy were. There were the most different experiences, but all in all the group was having the same feelings about asking for more acceptance, and openness, and maybe some form of community for the more severe afflicted, so they can live as independent as possible and still have the contacts they need for help.
It was a very intense time, but all went very disciplined and the audience was following through with the 'behaviour pleas' we had issued before. No coming and going, no chatter or mobile ringing, no loud handclapping at the end, but the applause known in the hearing impaired community (raising the hands and shaking them).
I was amazed at how good it went, and that we were able to cover all questions.
I think all had a good experience there, and I also hope the many therapists in the audience could take some helpful info with them and will be able to apply them in their work with autistics.
More about the rest of the conference in a different entry.
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