Tilli Tomas yarn arrived!

It´s horrendously expensive of course, but oh so wonderful!
So I´m putting everything else on the shelf - and starting swatching for the Sahara short-sleeved shirt tonight!
The colour is gorgeous, the yarn oh-so soft. I think I´m in love :)

Handmaiden and Fleece Artist - have to have it!

I´ve fallen totally in love with the Handmaiden and Fleece Artist yarns.
I mean, look at this picture and tell me how one could avoid loving it!
Handmaiden and Fleece Artist are basically the same thing, Handmaiden being the more luxury label of finer yarns from Fleece Artist.

I´m knitting a shawl in Handmaiden Minimaiden in the pale green peridot, a mix of wool and silk and softer than soft. Absolutely wonderful.
And since the yarn was screaming my name in the basket here, I also started a little project with the on-sale Fleeceartist Goldiehair, colour Renaissance (discontinued - therefore on sale). Goldiehair is a mohair, silk and nylon brush mix. Gorgeous colours and wonderful yarn.

I am sure this will be a very, very expensive love affair...

I´ve spoiled myself...

Yesterday and today, two packages arrived in the mail.
I´ve gone ahead and spoiled myself, and bought some lovely almost-not-there greenish-gray Handmaiden Mini Maiden rom Knitty-Noddy. The colour is peridot and the yarn is 50% wool and 50% silk. It´s so lovely it almost makes me drool, and I have to think up a really lovely project for this yarn to showcase it!
From Get Knitted, I bought myself some Fleece Artist Goldiehair on sale (the burgundyish mohair-yarn), which is so lovely now I have to find a perfect project for it. There, I also bought some Noro Kureyon for a Rainbow Scarf, two each of #52 and #159. The pattern calls for mixing up the two colours, and now I almost regret it because they´re both so beautiful by themselves. But I´ll try! I have several more ideas for Noro-yarn anyhow, and this is a nice way of testing the colours.

Camel Wool Yarn!

It strikes me that my secret friend the snow leopard has this Secret Pal thing planned ahead...
Yesterday, I received a package from the Snow Leopard Trust, containing Camel Wool Yarn, an artist´s drawing of a Snow Leopard and a nice letter about how purchasing this yarn helps save the Snow Leopard, preserve their habitat and improve lives of families in Mongolia. And the card contained a personal message for me from my secret pal :)

Wow! I´m amazed, gobsmacked, stunned. What a wonderful concept!
The Camel Wool yarn is lovely and soft, a nice brown colour. It´s made from 100% camel wool, from camels in the South Gobi desert, and made by women from the region.

Thank you so much for this wonderful gift, my secret pal! I will be thinking long and hard to find a project for this yarn :)

I love this yarn!

I got my package with Japanese NORO Kureyon yarn, colour 163, for a sweater for my son. The garn is absolutely divine! It´s 100% wool, the thickness varies a little, to be knitted on 4.5mm needles.

I´m following a simple pattern by a Norwegian designer, bought along with the yarn at Pinnsvindesign. There are two smaller balls of alpacca wool from Bolivia, brand name Fotrama. These are an emerald green and a dark purple and will be knitted together for a warming turtle-neck for the sweater. I cannot wait to see how this turns out, I never knitted with this yarn before and the green/purple mix for the neck was suggested by the shop and I´m excited to see what purple and green makes together!

Only have to finish a "few" other things first!

Oh joy, new yarn!

I have received a package in the mail from Pinnsvindesign with my long awaited winter project! A LUDO sweater from Hanne Falkenberg, which I will make into a jacket for my son. The colours are lovely, and the yarn soft. I can`t wait to get started!

First, I have to finish my husbands orange socks, I`m almost done with the first, but it`s been a bit slow at christmas. And secondly, I have to to finish off the neckwarmers for my nieces and send them off. Actually, I only have to crochet some flowers and sew them on, so it`s just a matter of doing it...

Pinnsvindesign has lots of nice yarn, and since the Regia sock yarn looked interesting, I bought some of that too. Now I just have to get the other UFOs off, and then we`ll see about some more fun socks!

Pink and more pink. Alpacca!

I came across some lovely thin Alpacca yarn from Du Store Alpakka on sale, and immediately bought some lovely pinks. Pink seems to be a theme these days... Anyhow, these will be perfect for my planned christmas presents for my nieces, now I just have to get knitting!

I´m also wondering if this yarn may be something for the Bayerische socks that I came across on the blog "See Eunny knit". Or maybe find a nice shade in Dale Babyull. I think I´ll wait a bit though, way too may unfinishined and planned projects at the moment and christmas coming up. Eunny´s blog is a great inspiration, though!

Shop til you drop!

It`s done! I`ve ordered the Hanne Falkenberg Ludo childrens jacket yarn set from pinnsvindesign.no. They also had some lovely Japanese yarn called Noro, and I couldn`t resist that either. Bought enough yarn for a sweater for my son too, I will have to take pictures when all this yarn arrives. I can`t wait!

I`ve also bought some Opal yarn, called Opal Hundertwasser 1434. It appealed to me in the shopp, but it`s rather orange, so I`ll have to see if I can get used to it. Maybe mix it up with some black for some striking socks or something...
The colours in this colourway are rather bright, here is an overview of all the Opal Hundertwasser colours.b