Flickr <3: Turkish Food I LOVE

1. Gozleme, 2. Simit, 3. turkish_bread.jpg, 4. coffee-and-turkish-delight.jpg, 5. manti, 6. baklava, 7. Lahmacun, 8. Classic Turkish Breakfast, 9. green beans, 10. pilav, 11. RAMAZAN PİDESİ, 12. Çay - Turkish tea, 13. Icli Kofte, 14. dolma, 15. Mercimek Corbasi, 16. safranbolu_turkey_yogurt.jpg, 17. Kofte lunch plate - Star Kebab @ Akihabara, 18. Cig Kofte, 19. Izmir Kofte, 20. beans with pilav

Wisp! Gasp!

Here is my beautiful wisp (regretfully having no eyelets on the sides. ugh.)! Feza Kid Melange knits up beautifully and feels like a piece of cloud. Hmm well, since I have never touched a cloud before I'd say cotton candy minus the sticky part. Ha!

I don't know if i will have an actual use for it nor I don't want to gift it to someone (yeah I am selfish like that also I have my reasons a) no one I know have uses for this and b) no one can appreciate a knitting gift, been there done that and I say never again). I will use pearl buttons. This migt be a good choice when I want to wear a sleeveles tank. We'll see.

Kid-Mohair Goodness

When I had my hands on a copy of Victorian Lace Today by Jane Sowerby there was no way I couldn't notice this beautiful hexagon shaped shawl named spider's-web shawls and imagined it as a perfect wedding veil:



Beautiful airy structure lets it to be light while still being georgous and it has a perfect shape for my kind of veil. I never liked the idea of having a tulle veil that is stuck to your up-do. I am more like a mantilla type of girl minus the high comb. This shawl being an hexagon, will let me to put it around my head as a mantilla and later on will rest on my shoulders doubled. Just Perfect!

Since purchasing Rowan Kidsilk was out of question (it would cost me as expensive as a wedding dress), I start to look for perfect local subs while trying to keep the same quality. I realized that there are tons of mohair, mohair blends, angoras (not the bunny the goat) and whatnot, none of them has enough mohair in their blends to make them real mohair despite their names. And I cannot understand why you name a yarn kidmohair and other mohairy names while the mohair percentage is only a mere 20. Ugh.

Fortunately I found just the perfect kidmohair from feza. I introduce you to Feza Kid Melange:



The real life color is not this white. It is more like a dirty white and I guess it is more better for it to be subtle. It is very soft on the skin. I bought only one ball to experiment with it.

However this beauty doesn't lend herself up so very easily. I try to master circle cast on and work with only 6 stitches on 3 needles and ugh it is hard! I decided that I will cast on more stitches and will start it as solid and then i will start lace pattern so to save my brain! I really want to knit this desperately. For real.

You can read a review on Victorian Lace Today and see more previews from the book on grumperina's blog.

Uh-ah, I am back...

First of all I should appoligize that I neglected this blog on purpose. I was thinking my other lover would be enough to chatter about my yarnly intakes but no, I came to realize that the lover and this blog is two different things. I certainly need to talk about things that belongs to a blog rather than a tiny notes section or a forum topic. Not that I will not contribute there or something, but there is no need to treat two different thing as same while they are obviously not.

And there is one other thing that made me to return my blogging roots. While I enjoy to contribute Ravelry as much as I can in every way, the one thing I worry about is this contributing thing. So many people, like me, are so happy to surrounded by whole world of knitters and we share almost everything on everything you can think of. There are literally hundreds of groups for hundreds different interests and most of them are not even about knitting. This is the part I worry. Now, in beta stage Ravelry seems to handle it and there is no need to fuss about bandwiths and whatnot. However, I do afraid this won't last long once we open to public wide open. I am afraid same thing will happen as craftster.org and we will have to keep it on topic and not allowed to chit chat about other interests and therefor, imho, will lost an important part of being a community. For now, I can only pray that day will never come (because when that kind of "keep it on topic" pressurre begin on craftster.org I felt heartbroken and dismissed).

So stay tuned, I have so many things to tell

A List

♥ Chocolate - to keep me sane
♥ Cup of good, strong coffee -so i can sooth myself with the delicious smell
♥ Books -to hide myself in
♥ Science-Fiction stories - so i can believe
♥ Sleeping - for its warmness
♥ Dreams -where everything is possible
♥ Pencils - so i dont have to be sure
♥ Papers - a gate to possibilities
♥ Music - to be on the stage for a minute or two
♥ Breathing -so i can be thankful


note: i guess a two week long, tiring exams grants me to be forgiven for my absence..

Wip: Dahlia

Knitty's Dahlia for my sister as a secret gift.

Through my Window