Day Three

Stockholms Kulturfestival 09

Day three, not so busy this morning a lot of little kids and they seemed to favour the crochet.;-)(maybe the little ones, get taught crochet 1st)

I think that it is great that Scandinavian schools teach the craft, UK need to take this on board as far as I'm aware we do not teach knitting or crochet just sowing.

Today the knitted graffiti was favoured over the leaf making, people just really like the idea.

The picture above shows our little knit station(Not so little)
Can you notice the snake..........Everyday Helen(organiser) pulls something new from her bag;-)

I knit a poem

Well actually I crocheted a blank square, and finally I completed it.

I packed and posted it straight away, just making yesterdays last post.

A good feeling, It's finally done (yeh). I was hoping to complete a few but the time's running out. The tiny hook size 3 defiantly took me a lot longer than I had originally planned.

VHS
This afternoon I had a little time to begin my pockets, I am trying to complete it(VHS) by Saturday as there will be a vernissage between Three and four pm, for all the knitter that have helped with the project Sticka, Stockholm knitters,Graffiti

Whom ever?(many groups, I'm pleased to be a part of most of them)
A few knit politics here and there, but at the end of the day it's about getting people knitting and crocheting,(K,I,P,ing) personally I think that it a really cool thing to have organised and I'm really glad to be a part of it.

A Crochet Outing

I took my crochet to lunch.
The crochet poem,gets a road trip.
Well a walking tour............

Walking and Crocheting

Here I am walking, walking ......it's me trust me.
(no car crashes caused)
But It must be a funny sight, some people listen to eye pods.........

I crochet and watch where I'm going (A multitasking feet!)

The Palace in sight

Drottningholm Slot

A Swedish palace not to far from my home.
And my favourite palace, the gardens are beautiful. And unlike the English monarchy, you can get really close to everything around the palace.

A beautiful day, you cant feel the warmth from the picture but the sun shone.

Lunch

New tea gardens/cafe, this was desperately needed.. The previous was very run down and not fit for a palace afternoon tea, In the Swedes case, cooooffffeeeee. I feel awfully Swinglish and quiet at home here. So coffee for me!/no decaf.

Lunch and my Poetry crochet, minty

The menu slightly difficult, seeing it is a tourist trap. But I managed and
My lunch lovely, my crochet well it didn't eat much, just a few rows.

Then my trip home.

All in all, I think my poetry square grew an inch, but a size 3 hook and 90 stitches I'm really not surprised, but at least we got a little exercise.

Knitted Graffiti and other projects

I have nearly completed my crocheted Graffiti for the kulturfestivalen. I ran out of beads and then I got bored of strips, so I have just really being playing with the stitches. My favourite type of crochet.

Vhs

I have been using the red cotton to create the imaginary zipper. The place that you can pull the dress tight(to skinny) to fit and that of course you have a little give (if larger) the access point.
(I just cant think of the right word;-()
Hook size 8, 5 then 3

Crocheted letters

(My E)

E for Eat me, Drink me.........Part of my Alice collection.

Tuesday at Hurtigs
Carin and Gunilla
A lovely cup of Earl gray tea, we got to sit outside and chat.
We really laughed, it was a very funny knit cafe.
Whom ever thought of the knit and stitch a very skilled multi tasking women,
Because when you chat and stitch add laughter, inevitably this happens

I had to unpick a few free-form rows(go figure), Gunilla lost count of her stitches.

I learnt something new

Carin show me how to crochet the 2ND yarn in, as if the back of a fare isle knit all thready was how my 1st attempt looked, but on explanation a little twist and stitch the tread was neatly in.

(My best explanation)

I'm making letter again and I'm trying it the make a crochet square way using the two colours at once.

Before I made the shape of the letter, then I crocheted around it.

Yarn for poetry

4ply

Not acrylic and a light colour, all that was required.
I had to ask around about 4 ply and wool, not anything that I have used before.
4 strands it was all quiet simple, really I guess.
But with a little advice........(That what experienced knitters are for)
I found this at 23krs a ball, I think a pretty good deal
Soft and minty

Work began

12 by 12 inch square
size 3 hook
59 chain? this was more like 8 cm. A little math reqiured (kim star)

90 and that made the 12 inch required.

Then I began, I didn't get far with such teeny tiny stitches, but it's all in the name of poetry so I won't complain.
www.poetrysociety.org.uk