Myself Stickontakt and Ramdom Things Post.

Tumba and the scene of the latest Stickontact project.
And best of all they invite me to join;-)
Tumba over ground train, the station roof, pretty cool a boat skeleton.

Graffiti/Art/Expression about women immigrants claiming the space around them.

Also prejudice against invandrare(immigrants) and against the suburbs.
http://stickkontakt.blogspot.com/
Take a look and read more about there work.

T Bana Stop.

Mabel glasses and my red play art.

Mabel

I took this photo at Millegarden when I visited yesterday and it was one of the many test pieces.
http://www.millesgarden.se/

The words "To beautiful to destroy" really struck me.........
Its a beautiful piece all by its self.
By Carl Milles


Home sweet/home? that's was for you to decide.

This piece fits. It to me represented home? wheres home! not settled in Sweden dread that I will one day return back to my hectic........

Study(got no where)
Work(going no where)
Kids
(Competitive club/groups in with the right crowd SUV yummy mummy's Oj oj oj).
My rushed/pleasing everyone, Uk life.......

Nothing fits!

Poetry Society a quick rushed half square as asked for on face book, completed and posted hopefully just making the dead line.
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk

Knit Cafe' and other crochet projects.

Fridays knit Cafe', international.

(Below)
Today's crochet and my shadow obsession.

Knit cafe

I'm hopefully running one (mini project), it's to do with my kid's school. Not just me, I have a second in command Celine very strong crocheter;-).

I had to announce it today, 1st PTA meet
(slightly nervous)
But I think that it went well.

We will see, once I have finalised the venue. Will they come.......

I even made a little knit cafe booklet, describing what a knit Cafe meet, means to me. I use the term made lightly as I have thing saved in the pc that's as far as I've gotten.

Tonight's plan!, finalise pamphlet.........well try

P,T,A crochet

A bag, Ecuador yarn style.
Size five hook, five bright yarns and a basket(coffee) and of we go.

Door plate


My letter E (plan B,C? not sure what)

Crochet lettering, two colours at the same time.

I do like that you can be tidy with the colour that you are not using. This way of making the letter, does not really impress me it's just too organised.

I prefer plan A, that being total free form, so I turned my sample into a door plate for my daughters friend.

Pizza Slice Crochet, any one?

This is project shawl
I began the triangles, but on taking the photo today , they look so good that you could eat then, sandwich/cake slice?.
(future project!)
The colours's mmmm,mmmmm.
Pink, today's purchase.

Poetry Society
In a nut shell........
800 volunteers
unveiled in Oct
I'm a teeny tiny part(one square), how cool.
It made the Guardian, today's paper, take a look';-).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/18/giant-knitted-poem

Stockholms Kulturefestival 2009

This is me! my I knit Sweden
The sea urchin I did not make but I love it, works well with the Swedish flag Colours.
http://www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se/
Helen from Sticka (Balls)
http://www.sticka.org/
The rainbow Pom pom's, Monet and I made for a knit lab project
(Lots of knitting associations, all working together)
Graffiti on the signs on the rails, every where (A decorated Sergal) a collaboration of Swedish knitter(crocheters)

Lets say international knitters and crocheters too!;-)
Promoting knitting, pick up the sticks...............lift up the hooks

A whole lot of K,I,P (ing)

Busy Stockholm

We are set up here, under the walk way between the two sides of the Culture house.
(Kulturehuset)

Doubling up my projects on my trip home a little more knitted poem

Buzzy Bee

Peoms, Deers and Fairys, not all crochet

My perfect little crochet square.

Doh, literally 3 inches to go!!!!!!! ahhhhh tiny hook take lots of time.

Here my measure, nearly their just not quiet.
With reference to the Knit a Poem project poetrysociety.org.uk
Facebook has a fan page;-)


Brunkerstorg
This weeks project.
http://avigmaskan.blogspot.com
Image taken from blog link

It's linked with Sticka (A big part of the Stockholm knit scene)

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticka

Not much on the wiki page it had a link to this, not gospel but the best description I could find.

http://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/sticka

Helen the main organiser , her cool balls below and a link to her Swedish blog.
http://tricot-ting.blogspot.com/

All this week, from tomorrow Sergal, Stockholm's Culture house.
(Kulturfestival)

Fallen fairy
Garden photo opportunity (I took this in England) my friend is currently re-designing her garden and sadly this little glass fairy had fallen room her pole, I have a liking for garden fairy's.

Oh Deer

A deer in my garden, one of my favourite thing about where I live is that every
now and then a deer will visit my garden. It's a built up area but lots of green
gaps on the edge of the city.

Steeling berry's, but who cares..... so delicate with it's perfect white
cotton wool ball tail!

Crocheted Poetry

My crochet 12 by 12 poetry square, on yet another adventure.
Organic ice cream at Stikki Nikki's

http://www.stikkinikki.com/en/Hem.html
Just Lovely
Stockholm is having a mega heat wave at the moment and while we have guests here from England a little sight seeing a must!

Sampling new food finds.........
Like this ice cream stand
whilst

Tying in a little time to crochet.

A headless me, my camera timer and placement failed me..........

(Honesty me, my birthmark)

on Boat trip to Drottningholm direct from central Stockholm.
http://www.destination-stockholm.com/sights/drottningholmboat.htm

Project plastic duck

new project

Introducing project plastic duck

Plastic duck , gets to the beach wiggling his web feet in the sand if he could.

(if he actually had feet!)

Unfortunately he didn't get a swim as the river was just to wavy and the beach.

It was just too busy!

Plastic duck would have been abducted by a small child/big child.

Or worse still, he could have possibly drowned!

Poetry Society knit Project and others

A crocheted poetry square

Required 12 by 12 inch,4ply and light coloured.
poetrysociety.org.uk
So far so good, the yarn it still a bit splitty, but I'm used to it now and if I make another I Will use another brand of wool (ULL) as I mention before that I was not really impressed with the one I choose. It's taken a while pretty fiddly for me a size 3 hook.
A little poetry

Today's poems titled
I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently
By
Edna St. Vincent Millay

I think I should have loved you presently,

And given in earnest words I flung in jest;

And lifted honest eyes for you to see,

And caught your hand against my cheek and breast;

And all my pretty follies flung aside

That won you to me, and beneath your gaze,

Naked of reticence and shorn of pride,

Spread like a chart my little wicked ways.

I, that had been to you, had you remained,

But one more waking from a recurrent dream,

Cherish no less the certain stakes I gained,

And walk your memory's halls, austere, supreme,

A ghost in marble of a girl you knew

Who would have loved you in a day or two.

Project pockets

Chockladbollen

Quick knit Sunday
Ex knit lab crew......
I crochet the beginning of a quick knit inner, for the pocket part of the VHS dress. I have not had the time yet to see if they worked.
I made two at once and they are still very much a W,I,P


Pocket inner, basic crochet 6.5 hook and I tried to make a free-form half moon shape, hand size.
Really I should have researched pockets 1st.
(Always back to front, my thinking)
I may still have to do that, if these wont fit the gaps that they are needed for.

Pret UK

Stole my I knit pasta idea (kidding!)
I popped in on my trip to UK for a quick coffee but really a trip down nostalgia lane.........
(Home reminder).
I'm not keen really on big brand promotion,LOCAL all the way!.
But I had to get a photo if this, unfortunately I didn't have my camera and this was my phone image. Pretty funny I think that you'll agree

Bruno

Images taken from blog
http://extremecraft.typepad.com/
Sunday night, movie night

Until I went to see the film, I was unaware that his main poster outfit was
in fact knitted.

The film made me Laugh very loud(some a bit to much!)
But this outfit was defiantly one of my favourites. I really think that Sacha B Cohen, is just a very funny guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen

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.