Updating my needle-addiction and yarn-fascination ...

Just a short note for those who are with me here, knitting, crocheting and stitching.....
Yesterday I finished an experimental knitting something -a "Fichu" made of Noro Taiyo in a few days.

I went wild with casting on, knitted a few rows and then increased heftily for a "ruche". Knowing how to create holes deliberately, I went ahead and added one row of "holes" to the ending.

Finally I took some silk grosgrain ribbon to thread through the holes of the increase row and bind it to a bow. I can change the width of the collar there from very tight and "clownesque" to wide and flowing.
I was absolutely in love  with the color changes of this particular yarn, it is ever so soft due to quite some fluffy cotton,a lot of silk, a bit of wool and a tad of Nylon. Highly to be recommended !

Next project is a Japanese Flower Scarf in "Peacock colors" (what else ?) which I started tonight. I was sleepless, as usual, and besides designing some on the "Castle Moyland Mandala" I went ahead and deciphered the Japanese Booklet, which fortunately has explicite symbol charts - until I succeeded in making my first flower.

And then an other one.. and so on. Just mere joy and fun. A great project to take along.

Screenshot from the "Fadenstille" Blog

And today the first bits and pieces of the "Elfenstille" Project were posted on that Blog, and of course I squished the last drops of black ink out of my printer (all colors were dried in, sigh!) and searched high and low for some smallish needles (3,75 mm) and kind of trembling with "fear" started the knitting.
And shall I tell you : I could read and understand that chart (Thank you for your detailed instructions, Anett !!) and knit the first rows, and then those with "holes" too.
I got it ! I feel quite like an Eliza Doolittle of needlework... I "got it" !!

that is my "achievement" from this afternoon. I must admit that I nearly eyed each single mesh before knitting it, but I am sure I will get accustomed to some more speed later...

I am pretty sure, my late Aunt is sitting up there on some cosy cloud, smiling broadly that finally I gave in and took knitting needles and yarn to follow her legacy of delicate knitting. She was an expert - I am far from this. But I feel so good with this new passion! It calms me on one side, and on the other my mind has the peace to wander around in past and future.

That guy snores and purrs, mostly in my knitting chair or on the matching footstool. Nothing better to relax in the soundscape of a sleeping cat. Yawn.....

Allright - now back to some work, and some pleasure with my threads and needles, and this time NOT stitching :-)))