#Engrish - Deo for a week

A goodie I just found from Kuwait 2014 :-)

#USA - Boston Toll station

#USA - Boston

#USA - somewhere over Boston

#365 - Natural Texas Honey

YumYum, got me some natural Texas honey!
Wish I had known about their soap and candles before :-)

Thanks, Savannah & Daniel! Keep up the good work!

#365 - Leaving Germany

Two from my flight, phone pics only, but better than nothing ;-)



I was surprised when we passed near my home town and I saw the 'Laacher See' :-)

And this one should be somewhere near Cologne or Duesseldorf.

#365 - Settling in

Bought a poor neglected outside chair the other day at the thrift shop.
Just a little help and it's almost new :-)

Finally found some herbs and did a little 'starter' garden.

Some heritage seeds are on their way for a real garden :-)

I put a potato in there, see if it will give me a starter potato

And after a days work, time for some knitting and a beer on my new chair, waiting for someone to do the BBQ :-)

Enjoying the sunset

While the dogs would prefer to play ;-)

#365 - Last views...

I'll certainly miss this view from my desk :-)

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#Handmade - Two Doilys

Not everybody's piece of pie, I kinda like them :)

Flower Doily by Coats Design Team
(free pattern)

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And Liz Snella's Heirloom Doily by Vintage
(free pattern)
Just edited the border a bit :-)

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#Kuwait - Arab Fund Building #2

Arab Fund Building / Arab Organizations Headquarters Building

A little bit more of the entrance door.

I will get past that point sooner or later ;-)

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

Some more details from the massive wooden doors (which I failed to take a photo of).

The pieces are set in in a way, so they can expand and shrink with heat & cold.

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

Too be continued....

#Kuwait - Arab Fund Building #1

What I've been doing yesterday,

I got invited to a tour of the Arab Fund Building (Arab Organizations Headquarters Building).
I'm not easily impressed, but boy, I certainly was this time!

Don't have the brain capacity to do more editing today, so, here's just the not-so-impressive (from the optics) exterior.
Why are the windows indented? To save energy and keep the dust out.
Why can they not do that all over Kuwait?
Nobody knows. Sigh.

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

Detail from the door frame you see above.

It is hand carved and goes not only around, but is also a solid wall left and right of the door.

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

To be continued....

#Kuwait - Room with a view

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

#Handmade - Shawlette Wellenreiter

Stitch pattern from ’1500 patterns’ - I am sure there’s already a shawlette out there, designed like this.
I just had this in my head & it needed to come out :-)

 Should I add some buttons? Should I write a pattern?

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#Handmade - Banana bag

Made with 'Banana yarn' from Nepal - gift from a friend.
The yarn is made from the fibers of the Banana tree trunk.
The old parts of the tree trunk are peeled off, soaked and then worked into fiber.....or something like that :-)

The bag's small, but big enough for small projects or just 'stuff' :-)

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#Handmade - Coachella Top

Free pattern on Ravelry Looks much better on me than on No-Boob Emma ;-)

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Notes

CO 202st with 2.5mm needles….what a pain….!
:-)
I hope I don’t have a twist,…

Didn’t have a twist, but managed to get one in after the arms when joining everything.
I caught it in the third row, never knit stuff like this when tired.
I left it though and just knit straight over.
There’s a little bump, but I can live with that ;-)
That’s just me :P

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I did up the number of st to 220, I hope it all works out. Trying it on with the cable needles is for some reason a pain itb this time.

At the next shaping part I reduced the st to 210.

And following the pattern from there.
I should have added another Inch, going on 23” instead 22” before knitting the last 6 rows.

The strap in the back could have been a bit longer too.

That’s what you get when you don’t do a gauge and just go ‘pi thumb’ ;-)

Funny, this yarn knits much more even in stockinette when knitting through the back loop.

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Looks much better in real Life than here :) Odd angle, sigh!

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#Handmade - Meterzaehler 2014

07.01.2014 Moechtegern Boomslang  100g & 180m

17.01.2014 Twisted Boomslang          100g & 300m 

20.01.2014 The Blue Hole Bandana    100g & 230m 

21.01.2014 Origami Puschen 0.2        200g & 300m

22.01.2014 Origami Puschen 0.1        200g & 300m

23.01.2014 Nepalese Project bag       200g & 300m

08.03.2014 Koerbchen                         50g &  50m

18.03.2014 Meeressturm                    180g & 620m

21.03.2014 Spoke shawl jacket          400g & 1400m

27.03.2014 0815 Yoga socks               20g &   40m

17.04.2014 Wannabe Aran Sweater    400g & 900m

07.05.2014 Doppelt gemoppelt             50g & 190m

15.05.2014 KatyJubilee shawl               45g & 450m

21.05.2014 Coachella Top                   150g & 530m

23.05.2014 Flower Doily                       10g & 100m

25.05.2014 Wellenreiter                         25g & 100m 

03.06.2014 Heirlom Doily                      15g & 150m

04.06.2014 Iced Jacket                ( ~ ) 600g & 1200m

Total:                                                 2845g & 6140m

#Handmade - KatyJubilee shawl / Tuch

Free pattern on Ravelry / Kostenloses Muster bei Ravelry

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#Kuwait - Otto in Salmiya

I'm opening up a collection of 'Otto' signs around the world.

I think, I still have one from Egypt somewhere :-)

From Kuwait 2013 / 14

#Handmade - Sockalicious

Finally a pair finished again :-)
This one's for me.
I really dig the 2-socks at a time (toe-up) method.
They always fit and are comfy and I can knit until the yarn's finished, if I want to :-)
Plus, it takes only half the time as normal socks, no kidding.

#365 - The road to healthy

Good morning world 

40min walking & 1 hr Yoga behind me, now I'm chewing my Veggie juice.... 
I am tempted to go to Fahaheel and get me the cheap juicer after all... This juice (smoothie) ain't bad, BUT,.... 

Anyhow, this one's a blend of 1 (biggish) cucumber, 1 Tomato, 2 (biggish) carrots, 1 relatively big red beet & one apple. Added some water and overheated my poor Blender a bit, even though I added stuff slowly  . If you want it less chewy - add more water.

Stored half of it in a jar (you have to fill it all the way, or all the Vitamins will go 'puff'. That one's either for tomorrow or later today.

Put in some Tumeric, Flax seeds and oats. Forgot to put in some Ginger, but used some of my powdered Ginger instead. And defo don't have a problem chewing this 'juice'