Vacation Monday

In our region of The Netherlands we have spring break. That means no work (school) for a week. For me, the most joyful days of vacations are Mondays. It starts on Sunday evening, That glorious feeling that you have a week ahead of no obligations, no rising early in the morning, no have to's.
And so I spent my day knitting, spining on a new project and preparing some other knits. Skeins turned into balls of yarn and I knitted on the balcony to catch that early sunbeams of spring.

Last week I finished You Will Rise Again. Pattern: Carradal from Lucy Hague with lovely Celtic cables. At first I thought it would turn out a bit too dark perhaps. But now it's finished it's just what I imagined it to be the moment I picked the colours.

I knitted on another project, St. Brendans Fair Isle. The wool is a bit scratchy and it irritates my finger cuticles.

And on the MKAL Urquhart Castle. I choose to do the large square shawl, so casting on 920 stitches and knitting a few rounds costs ages!

I also casted on a pair of gloves, so I have a car project when we go for longer rides.

And I planned to join in a KAL so I picked some of my stashed yarn and winded them into balls.  The Penguin KAL by Sweatershopper. You can join in the Ravelry group  I don't think I'm getting bored for a long time!

New roommate ;)

Since the day before yesterday I have a new roommate. She is a not so average girl, dressed a bit sexy and very quiet, a unique lady! Through a collegue of mine I got in contact with an artist that decorates window dummies. I sent her some pictures of what I would like and she decorated the most beautiful mannequin I've ever seen. One of a kind also!
I am going to drap my shawls around her and I enjoy looking at her, just as she is!

She doesn't distract me from knitting, so I can show some progress on another knitting project. It's a fair isle cowl, named St. Brendan's Fair Isle. It still looks quite messy, because of all those loose threads. But at the end she will turn out beautiful!