marita’s coffee chitchat

So. The blog is new, i’m new to the blog, a friend of mine is about to do a total makeover of my blog and i’m just sitting here with a huge grin. I think i’ll start with posting pics of some old projects, just to slow down and get a feel of “bloggage”. I’m a crocheter by heart and i never thought i was going to learn how to knit anytime soon. Well, i was wrong! A couple months ago i decided to give it a try, and after searching for a good beginner pattern, i landed on Branching Out. I quote:

This scarf incorporates an easy, leaf-motif lace pattern for those willing to “branch out” from garter or stockinette stitch.

Emh.. Well now that i read it, i see it says “branch out from ***” and not “start out” as i thought. Anyways, after some starterdifficulties, a load of questions & answers in the various hobbyforums i finally finished the scarf. It’s about 170cm long, full of errors and all mine (huh my blog has smilies?) Here it is:
Knitted in Drops Alpaca, 5.5mm needles.

After i finished the scarf, i was itching for more projects and decided to try these fingerless mittens from Garnstudio. At first it was a total failure, i must’ve done something wrong because they were turning out about 5cm too wide for my arms. I edited the pattern a wee bit and here’s the result:

Knitted in Drops Alpaca, 3.0mm needles.

I wanted a hole for my thumb, and made one between the patternrepeats. This turned out just terrible, so i patched it with crocheting a lil ‘cape’ to my thumb, and that seems to work pretty well
I guess i dont need to tell you how proud i am of this accomplishment

I really need to find out where the smilies in this blog are, and if i can install some custom sets aswell. Then i gotta decide if i’m going to keep writing in English or if i need to chicken out and write in Norwegian. Or Sami, but then i’d have like 2 readers tops Anyways, my friend is still doing heavy surgery on the theme/skins, it’s turning out just awesome! I’m totally incomtitable with photoshop and coding, so this help is greatly appreciated. I bet she doesnt even have a clue about how thankful I am!