Spring, please come back!

I'm missing you.

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I spend last weekend at my very first knitting retreat ever. It was so much fun, I arrived home on Sunday evening tired but happy. Knitting, talking, eating, drinking, sauna-ing, a yarn purchase or two. I even managed to destash some yarn. Came home with more yarn than I left with, though. I'm already looking forward to the next retreat. Those nice fellow knitters doing all the organizing, thank you! I wish you all an overflowing stash.

Prior the retreat, everyone except one I told about it asked whether it was meant to be a silent one. Around 50 opinionated, yarn-loving, social (occasionally slightly tipsy) women present, what do you think?

The yarns at the photo: the cake on top is Wollmeise Twin in Golden pear. Underneath from left to right: three skeins of Kintlob's Lair sock yarn, Wollmeise Twin in Rosenrot WD and Wollmeise 100% merino in Regenbogen. More details in my stash.

Those who wonder about the world's cutest Pikku-Hukka, she's holidaying chez my mother. Mom reports PikkuHukka's spending her time sleeping in a pale blue bowl and looking adorable. Who'd have guessed? And that she fits in it!

Edited later on:

I forgot, managed to finish this hat while at Päivölä.

more about it here

FO: sunny socks

I'm on some kind of a sock-knitting phase as I've already knit more pairs of socks this year than during the whole 2010. It's a nice state of mind to be in. These, my newest, are on my feet at the moment. All the details are here.

Despite the weather - below freezing temperatures, snow falling & more promised over the weekend - I've started to knit a spring hat for my self. The spring will come, even if it's two weeks late by now. What makes a hat a spring hat, you might ask? Well, a spring hat is not too hot and it does not look too woolly. This yarn's a nice tweedy wool-silk blend.

But I must say, looking at posts such as this one and this makes me green with envy.