1st May 2015 - New knitting project and my mum's cooking

I've decided to bring a knitting project with me which is Ginny's Cardigan. It has owls on the back in lace and I fell in love with the pattern when I saw it for the first time. I still have a lot of yarn stashed away so I hope this one will reduce it again as planned for 2015. I'm only back in Germany since yesterday but I've already started on the 3rd ball - only brought five with me. But my mum has crochet stuff to do so I will keep myself busy as it is.

Again, I decided to modify the pattern. I love the lace on the back but the front of the cardigan is rather plain and I'm not a big fan of knitted pockets. I always tend to stuff them with ... well ... stuff. Ruined a couple of jackets in the past. I've also decided to lengthen the cardigan as I have more yarn than required hence I started the cardigan off with two repeats of the owl pattern before starting the shaping for the waist. Here's a picture of the current project.

I didn't bring stitch markers with me so I robbed my dad of paper clips. Works well enough to mark the pattern section, e.g. decreases and the lace part. The lace is easy enough once you get used to those triple decreases: sssk and k3tog. Looking forward to the finished project.

Great thing about holidays is that I'm able to enjoy my mum's cooking again. And let's be honest - nobody cooks as well as your mum. She made gyros today with her own herb mix and baked feta cheese with peppers, red onion, tomatoes, dried basil and olive oil. The whole ensemble was served with olives stuffed with almonds, home-made sauce and warm bread. Picture of everything before going into the oven and the frying pan.

I didn't last very long once it was cooked.

Tomorrow, I'm going shoe shopping - desperately need new shoes and pay a visit to one of my favourite crafts shops, Sticklise, hunting for buttons.

Going to bed now. Night.