Spring Fever

In Dutch there is a saying "Een nieuwe lente, een nieuw geluid". (Actually it's not a saying but a quotation from a poem from Gorter). Literally, a new spring, a new sound. Meaning ofcourse how in springtime your mind gets refreshed by the time of year in which everything is new, trees come into their new leaves, birds start nesting, and so on, and you start to think of new beginnings..
Well, so have I!
I've finished a couple of knitting projects and started several new things.
This is what I finished:




simple pleasures, a pattern from the Purl Bee

and a quiviut smoke ring or whimple



and I started Damson, a lovely shawlette or shoulder shawl in dark blue Malabrigo sock yarn.


Now I had already noticed through reading the Ravelry comments on this pattern, it it's quite a close call yarnwise, and that many people had only just finished it with a tiny amount of yarn left or even had to use yarn from a second skein. Now normally I'm quite a frugal knitter and tend to use up less yarn than suggested, however. not this time! Maybe I made a counting mistake, but anyway, I noticed the yarn getting dangerously close to the end and indeed, I ran out totally 3 rows from cast-off!
A call for help on Rav ended up in an extremely helpful and kind knitter from the US promising to send me some of her leftover yarn. She'll send it to the Naples, FL hotel in which I'll be staying next week during the Urological Pathology course I'll be attending. Isn't that just amazingly kind of her!

So next week I'll be in Florida, and I will visit a local yarn shop (LYS), Gabriella's Yarn, and will also go tot two knit nights there!! Besides all those yarny pleasures, I will have the course, and will do some serious shopping. I'm thinking of buying an iPad!!



Last, but not least in all this spring fever: I've got a new boyfriend.. well, I use the term "boyfriend" hesitantly as we're no longer in the age group to call it that. A meaningful other? partner? anyway, I've started dating and it's working out between me and Theo! He's a wonderful guy I've known for about ten years already, but lately we've rediscovered eachother in a totally new light!

Now, I will post pictures tomorrow...

bye for now