Blue Awesomeness

One of the best things that has happened to me is 1) my boyfriend, 2)the fact that the boyfriend bought me 700g of the softest, most expensive most beautiful alpaca bulky yarn from Lang Yarns. It is incomparable. I've had it for a few months and am working on the pattern to use it on because i'm so scared of wasting it. I'm thinking of a sweater that somewhat resembles a stormy cloud, thinkthink.
I swear to god- this is the nicest yarn I've ever laid hands on. It's soft, the colour is beautiful and I want to take it to bed. In fact, on my drive home from Munich that weekend I put it on the seat next to me and occasionally petted it. THATS how soft it is.

Peppermint stripes

One item that I made and that I am particularly fond of is my new beret, made from merino fingering weight. It's a pattern I got off ravelry, and I made it simply out of the necessity to have a hat because it had suddenly gotten colder. i added a little green bow to the band making it extra prim, and even though the pattern is not quite right for the yarn it is a hat that has seen a lot of wear and I've gotten a ton of compliments for it. A better picture of it worn will be up soon.

Candycane!

After many many knitpieces for other people, I is making me some fancy candystripe sweater. I used hints from a pattern from Drops, but generally just made it up as I went along. I'm not sure thats going so well, it's pretty tight and knitting intarsia back and forth is really not fun at all and its really really hard to keep gauge. I ran out of yarn and i'm waiting for the final skeins to arrive for the sleeves, because that's all thats left to do! Two little sleeves. Waiting to be knit during lectures. I am always the center of many attentive looks when I am knitting in lectures, and I'm sure many knitters experience that too when knitting publically.
So. Here is the first part of candycane. sorry for the crappy photo.

The endless scarf......

...it being endless because i have had to unravel a certain section four times by now because each time I made a mistake. If it were for me, I wouldn't give a damn, but this scarf is for my friend Conny who is going to eastern Poland come fall for her studies. Since she is very concerned about ecoliving and pollution I made it from eco-friendly-100%-non-died-sheepswool I ordered off the net. The pattern is officially killing me, I really really like cables, but not so many of them jumping in my face every 6 rows! Honestly, I've thought about trashing the whole thing twice........but I still hope she likes it when it's finished..........come 2078.

Miss Golightly out on the town!

As I wanted this blog to cover my crafts, especially my sewing I am getting started by posting the object I am currently quite proud of and in love with: My Golightly dress. Made from cotton that I bought in LA years ago before the total polkadot craze I always had the fear to make something out of this that wasn't worth the fabric. Only after finding another source to get I cut it up and made this out of it! Using patterns from my alltime favourite site www.burdastyle.com (e.g. the bodice sloper and the marie skirt) I am really happy with the outcome and with what I got out of the fabric.
It's funny how hesitant I am to cut up beautiful fabric of which I have only a limited amount, I covet it so much I am sincerely afraid of ruining it by making the wrong garment out of it. I always have the feeling that a fabric has to sit with me for so and so long until I find out what it will be become. I wish I would give all my decisions as much thinking before cutting things up!!

I admit

...that I am a spoilt brat. There is absolutely no way around that. I am what i am and so on and so forth. My parents give me a lot of stuff, i get supreme edeucation, nice clothes, pets, music, food, my bed, anything. maybe sometimes I don't even realize how much I take everything I get and I own for granted. But there is one thing that I definitly am not and I most starkly oppose to that reproach: I am not a cold-hearted, shoe-obsessed, having-her-hair-colour-touched-up-once-a-week kind of person. I just am not and even though a lot of people in the past have thought I look the arrogant bitch, I am not, and usually they realize this when getting to know me. I know I am interested in fashion a lot, but I don't see anything bad in that. Fashion is a craft just like carpenting or something similar. I don't see why making nice clothes is generally equalized with capitalistic hell and making nice furniture is not. Of course the fashion world is pretty out of hand and there is a lot going on there that I wouldn't like to cope with myself. Still, fashion is not merely an indicator for arrogance/spoiltness, it's a craft and that's what it boils down to. Aslong as you know whats really important to life (and that's neither craft nor furniture) and your soul is open-minded and not stuffed with ridiculous things you consider important, anything goes.
People who party alot at posh clubs and spend a lot of money on that are not consequently bad people. they live a different life than yours, and who cares? They don't mind the way you want to live. I think you should be more openminded to ALL kinds of lifestyles, and trust me, all those alternos can be incredibly narrow-minded in their my-path-is-the-path-of-salvation-esque way. It's not your fucking business what other people chose to do with their lives, as long as nobody is hurt/bothered, what is it to you? Don't think you can only be happy one way.
Don't get me wrong. I am not advocating a life filled with drugs, money and designer dog totes. That's not my life either. But just live with the fact that people have different oppinions and you can not claim urs to be the right one.
I know that now I sound like a spoilt person trying to justify her over-the-edge lifestyle. Not true. It's not that much. But I have had enough of being harrassed about my lifestyle by some potheads that think merely because they like to live in a dump they are SO buddha and can SO tell everybody JUST HOW NICE life without possesion is..."I don't need all that stuff to be happy." Me neither. But I like it. And that doesn't make me a bad person.