Better photos & a new shop!

Firstly, I've added some much better photos to the baby hoodie jackets and fingerless mittens for sale in my Etsy shop, now that daylight permitted me to do so. Take a look! Maybe you'll find a present for the upcoming holiday season?

Secondly, I also wanted to try out the Danish version of Etsy, called Amio.dk. The concepts are completely identical, except that Amio.dk is a bit more expensive to use for the seller. As I cannot put the same item up in both shops (I'd be in trouble if the same item was sold twice!), I've put up the knitted bracelets and hats in this shop. It's all in Danish, but shipping is international, so don't hesitate to contact me by email (see sidebar) if there's anything here you'd like, but can't understand how to buy. You can visit my Amio shop here.

ETA: If you want to see more of those bracelets, my Ravelry project page is here.

Jeg har nu strikkede julegaveidéer til salg både på Etsy og i min nye butik på Amio.dk. Kig forbi! :)

In need of a Christmas present?

Although the sale at the last two weekends' Christmas fair went very well, I still have some hand knits perfect for Christmas knitting left. I know most of you who read here are knitters yourselves and therefore not interested, but in case you are I just wanted to let you know - and Siena was so kind as to ask for it :)

I have put these lovely baby hoodie jackets and 3 pairs fingerless mittens for grown-ups up in my Etsy shop. (Sorry for the not perfect photo quality - you can use the photo above for colour guideline!)
When daylight permits, I'll also be putting up a few hats and some fancy knitted bracelets!

Jeg har sat hjemmestrikkede julegaveideer til salg i min Etsy butik. Jeg håber, du finder det interessant! :) Alle priser er i USD, men kan omregnes her.

This is what I've been knitting lately...

Exactly one month and one day ago I got the opportunity to take part in a Christmas fair the coming two weekends (Nov 13-14 and Nov 20-21). Since then, I've been knitting steadily to add to the gift piles of clothes for babies and accessories for grown-ups I already had. Here's some of what I've produced:

Baby hoodies in New Lanark Aran [Rav link]

Fingerless mittens w/horizontal stitches in New Lanark Aran [Rav link]

Baby vests and a hat in Cascade 220 Wool [Rav link]

Bubbles and Cables Cowl in Posh Yarn Laura & Rowan DK Wool 

[Rav link]

Not bad, eh? :)
I do have some more bits and bobs including knitted bracelets, but no photos yet. Oh, and some old knits too.

Should any of the locals be interested in going to this Christmas fair, here are the details:
Birkede Gl. Skole, Møllevej 16, Viby Sjælland. Sat-Sun Nov 13-14 and Nov 20-21, from 10 am to 4 pm. 
There will be lots of other stuff for sale, too - Christmas-related and gift ideas.

Quarterly Report - third quarter

Ooops. In my last post I advertised the upcoming quarterly report - and then forgot all about it! If I am to make it before the fourth one is due, it'd better be now :)

You can find my previous quarterly report here.

The major accomplishment this quarter must be getting married! But let's look back at those 10 New Year's resolutions:

1. Knit down (some of) my stash
I destashed 2 skeins of yarn and knit up some odd balls for the four baby vests. But then I also bought another 200g - and I may just have bought some more, but that (and 2 of those 4 skeins) have already been knitted up for a Christmas fair [info in Danish] I'm taking part in two weekends in November. All in all I think I'm a tiny bit on the good side. Thing is, I haven't actually finished many projects this quarter, but I do have loads of yarn on the needles, so in the end I will have less yarn than I started with.

2. Be less spendy and save money for more important things.
Well, there was that wedding, but I think we already established that it files under 'important things' :)

3. Improve my Italian.
I did make my way through the Michel Thomas course including the Advanced part during my summer holidays, and we did go to Italy in September and managed to practice a bit. Since then, life has taken over, but I want to get back into learning more!

4. Keep flossing.
Yes :)

5. Less Facebook, more reading.
I have actually read something like one or two novels a month this past quarter. May not sound like a lot to you, but it is to me. And Facebook is on its way out, isn't it?

6. Learn how to do tubular cast on and use it.
No. I'm beginning to doubt I will cos I have so much other knitting going on just know.

7. Keep running regularly.
Yeees. You may recall I managed to finish my second half-marathon in 1:59:52. I also set PR on 10 km at the DHL relay race in September. Recently (but that's actually in the fourth quarter), I joined Sparta to keep up my running over the winter.

8. Keep doing Pilates regularly.
Uhm, no. I would like to, but I just never get round to it.

9. Knit 12 sweaters.
Haha. I did show you all my sweater WIPs during Sweater WIP Week, but so far I have only finished one of them. Right now I'm terribly busy finishing stuff for this Christmas market, so no sweater knitting is going on. I don't think I'll reach 12 this year either. But maybe all those sweater WIPs will be a good starting point for next year, or is that cheating?

10. Knit 10 shawls.
I knit one, the Haruni. That's one per quarter so far. Definitely not going to accomplish this one.

A combination of being busy and having numerous large WIPs on the needles has left me with (wait for it!) 4 finished project this quarter! You can see them here: