Śmingus-dyngus and zigzags.

I'm a bit early here...
Today, Easter Monday, is what we call in Poland Śmingus-dyngus or Lany Poniedzialek (Wet Monday). It’s an old custom, from the pagan times, where people sprinkle each other with water using this. It symbolizes the nature’s awakening in Spring and start of the new life cycle. Sprinkled person would be successful that year as all evil and sickness is washed away with water. Nowadays it is often more than just a symbolic sprinkle and the poor girls are drenched with water.

I wonder what is it like this year...

I guess there’s nothing else for me to do but to virtually sprinkle you with water (wink) - for good luck of course!

Ok, now back to knitting.

Neither the GGH nor Habu yarn arrived – apparently An Post does not work on Good Friday (WTF?) and I was really hoping to receive the Habu so that I could cast on for the Frock Camisole. Guys from the shop said that GGH was not in stock (although it was when I clicked the purchase button, echhhh…) and I have to wait, wait, wait… I hate waiting…

So due to a yarn shortage, the Aleita Shell project is stalled. All I have to knit is the front, so as soon as I get the yarn (hopefully this year) I will try to finish this one.

The bunny is finished and happily snoozing in the living room together with Bubby and Amigurumi.

I’m currently zigzaging through jaywalkers. The first sock is finished and 25% into the second one. Boy, oh, boy, this project turned out to be more challenging and time consuming that I’ve ever imagine.

I started with 2mm needles and 76 sts. After maybe 10cm in the leg, I tried the sock on and could not pull it through my instep so I frogged leaving only the ribbing. I then Increased to 84 stitches and changed the needles to 2,5mm. Knitted few centimeters and tried the sock on. It fitted this time. Continued knitting until the heel was turned and the instep stitches picked up. Few more cm and I noticed that the instep is big, but fits but the foot looks and is way too big. Yghh… frogged the foot and instep. Changed needles back to 2mm and prayed that this time there will be no more fitting issues. There were none.

There was also one casualty – one of my 2mm bamboo needles snapped in half.

I'm using the broken needle as my cake tester. There's nothing like recycling ;)

I changed the needles to metal for the second sock – metal does not break, does it?

Weekend with crochet hook

Look what all the crafted-toy blogging made me do:

Cale to pisanie o szydelkowych zabawkach, skończylo się tym:

Meet my Guy- Amigurumi – free pattern from Lion Brand Yarn.

Crochet hook: 4mm,

Yarn: Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino in red, peach and cream and some unknown leftover black sock yarn.

Stared and finished: March 16th.

Fun, fun, fun….

Poznajcie Amigurumi - wzór do ściągnięcia za darmo na stronie Lian Brand Yarn (po angielsku, ale jak ktoś ma choć nikle pojęcie o szydekowaniu, spokojnie da radę wszystko rozszyfrować)
Do zrobienia tego koleżki, użylam 4mm szydelka i wlóczki Baby Cashmerino - marki Debbie Bliss, oraz odrobinę czarnej wóczki na oczka.
Zaczęte i skończone 16-go marca.

After finishing this one, I made two additions to my toy-Q:

Chuck the Monkey by Paola Navarro (Ravelry link) from DeliciousCrochet (ETSY link)

Dwa nowe wzory:

Malpka - Czak

and Lazy days by Kristie's Kreations (Ravelry link) from Kristieskids (ETSY link)

i Leniwe dni. Czyż nie są slodkie??

How cute are these ??

I really should not browse the patterns anymore. My Q should be getting shorter not longer ;o/

Naprawde nie powinnam już ogadać nowych wzorów... Moja kolejka rzeczy do zrobienia powinna sie kurczyć a nie wydlużać ;o/

One more crochet project is on the way – if I figure out the pattern (probably with a help of an experience crocheter(s))

Jeszcze jeden projekcik jest w planach - jeśli uda mi się kiedykowiek wymyśleć dobry wzór (pewnie nie obejdzie się bez pomocy doświadczonych szydelkujacych koleżanek).
Tego pana - moje nowe szydelkowe wyzwanie - przedstawiać nie muszę:

My BF loves this cartoon – Wlatcy moch. He especially loves one of the main characters – Czesio.

Yes, he’s a zombie ;o)

Last Sunday I was asked to crochet Czesio. Hmmm…

I don’t think it will be a very difficult thing to crochet, but coming up with a pattern is a totally different story. I even found an exapmle, but no pattern for Czesio.

Znalazlam nawet gdzieś w sieci gotowy szydelkowy brelok. Niestety bez wzoru - ktośnajwyraźniej chce sprzedawać gotowe breloczki ;o(

Any words of wisdom?

In the meantime, the Jaywalkers are growing slowly:

W międzyczasie, moje Jaywalkers rosną powoli:

I am only hoping that I will not run out of yarn.

I may have just enough to finish if I'm lucky.

Mam tylko nadzieję, że nie zabraknie mi wóczki.

Niestety z Aleita Shell mialam pecha. Skończya mi sie wóczka ;o( wiedzialam, że tak bedzie wiec za wczasu zamówilam troche więcej z Loop. Już ponad dwa tygodnie a ja ciągle czekam. Pojęcia nie mam czemu tym razem realizacja zamówienia trwa tak dlugo. Ech...

jedynym pocieszeniem jest to, że w międzyczasie mogę popracować nad szydelkowymi zabawkami ;o)

Unfortunately I wan not lucky with Aleita Shell and I ran out of yarn. I knew it would happen and so I had ordered more GGH Scarlett from Loop over two weeks ago. The most annoying thing is to wait for your order to arrive. I have no idea why it takes so long this time. I used Loop in past and never had to wait for so long. ughhhh .... I really doubt I will get the yarn before Easter. That is not cool at all ;o/

The good thing is - I will have time to work on my cute crochet friends ;o)