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socks for next winter, should be manageable

processpicture - red wool, sock
cuff and shaft

I have knitted something again after a long time. I had problems with my wrist, so I preferred to take a longer break.

After three attempts at a “Ladies Hat” from “The Penguin Knitting Book” – I unravelled everything again and am now knitting more challenging socks.

The top is a pattern that simulates plaits. The shaft is based on a pattern from “japanese Stichbible”.

By the way, the problem with the “Ladys Hat” was that the hat was much too small and I wondered if people simply had much smaller heads in the past? Apart from the fact that the instructions are so short and cryptic that I wonder how anyone could ever understand it. I thought I’d got the hang of it and understood it all, killer logic and all, but no. It just didn’t work the way it was supposed to.

“japanese stichbible pattern detail/cut from the book”

feeling Dawn today

portrait of "Dawn Wiener" in "welcome to the dollhouse"
Dawn hates her mom

who doesn’t know that? Feeling misunderstood, somehow not fitting in properly or it doesn’t just feel like everyone is against you? I have that a bit sometimes, age helps a bit but sometimes I also feel like I’ve been transported back in time.

This is a fanart of Dawn Wiener hating her mother at the dinner table 🙂

1st print

linolium print in black. Portrait of a person that is crying without facial expression. Holding the hands on the sides of her head.
sadness

This is one of the first linoleum prints I made and it is also one of the few prints I am convinced of myself. One where I really think “yes – it fits, it transports something”.

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