Recently I’m highly frustrated. All around people celebrate their birthdays or want to marry, or even worse: people want me to marry. Next week, there’s a conference I co-organized together with other volunteers and that’s also very relaxing keeping me frustrated.
On top of that, I can’t seem to get any knitting done. Or rather, anything finished. That doesn’t really lower the frustration level, I tell you.

For example, in January I started this sweater in light fingering weight yarn (!) that turned out to be too small at the waist and too big at the shoulder part.
Then I knit a Toujours sweater that has rolling edges and is also too wide in the upper area.
My latest failure is a Monomania cardigan that I knit from stash yarn, where I decently swatched and blocked, but when I tried to join the shoulders it was all waaaay too small because my gauge had changed!

All I could finish knitting this year is four pairs of socks! Honestly?!

Well, what does one do when one gets frustrated? Exactly, shopping!

I got myself this yarn and pattern kit. They are fingerless mitts in lace weight yarn by Bombella on Etsy.

A beauuuuutiful geometric brooch by Parker and Lou-Lou which arrived in no time at all but I didn’t get to take a picture, yet.

And most recently a knitted necklace by Amy Lawrence

Let’s not talk about the yarn purchases. I plan to knit until the end of my lifetime, apparently.

Meanwhile, I spent my time knitting my first lace shawl. It took me three false attempts to get really started, but now I’m happily ploughing along.
It’s Rappaccini’s Garden Shawl by Anne Podlesak:

I can happily announce that I’m midway through the last repeat and then there’s only a lace edging keeping me from completing my first all-over lace project. So perhaps it’s not the knitting I fail at but the measuring. I swear I will properly have myself measured by the boyfriend when all this craziness is over! *shakes fist*

… who amaze me sometimes!

Like this vlogger who was a recommendation by youtube.

Go watch it. There are anime-style real life videos to be seen!

His drawings also remind of Botanicula, the video game. As you can see in this video.

Oh, and have you met Grace already? If not, you surely missed out on something!

Yesterday was a looooong day for me. After only 4 hours of sleep I stood up to go grocery shopping. Why I did this? Well, I simply needed some things to get through 5 hours of waiting. Waiting? Yes! With about 100 other people I stood in a queue for the standing room for the long-awaited Madonna concert.

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So on Saturday (as I panicked on Twitter) was the big wedding of my school friend. She’s one year younger than me but her husband and she are in their tenth year of relationship. What an achievement!

Because they got married last year already, they wanted their church ceremony to be big and nice. And that’s what they really got. The reception was held in a four star-hotel with excellent service, the buffet had almost 15 courses and there was a cake stand with dessert (nomnom).

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Took a little snapshot with my SX-70 today while we were taking a walk in the park.

Just had to show you because I think it looks very nice.

Taken on Impossible PX 680 Color Shade film, no modifications – just scanned it in.

Uh, hai there! Long time no see!

Last Friday, the boyfriend and me have been to the Impossible Project Factory Outlet. Admittedly, it is as small as it looks in the pictures. But the shop manager was really nice and surprisingly spoke German really well! We ended up buying 6 packages of film, ND-filters and the Impossible frog tongue. Everything was even cheaper than I thought, but I will continue using all my films preciously.

Of course, to my mild irritation the day after Impossible announced an Open House Day in a newsletter! I would’ve loved to visit the factory after driving about 250 kms… Anyway, we had a really enjoyable yet slow ride to and fro and even went a little bit shopping in the city centre of Enschede. There will be more pictures when my film is developed!