Kiri Kari (Estonian knitted toys)

I am sure you’ve already seen several pictures from this book on various blogs, but I can’t help myself ’cause I’m in love. My all time favorite creatures from Kiri Kari are the foxes and the piggies. So now in addition to Japanese and Swedish I need

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to learn Estonian. Good luck with that… at a first glance Estonian looks like encrypted text. After another look, it looks like seriously encrypted text.

Volpine nel bosco

Volpine nel bosco

Aren’t these the most charming sausage foxes you’ve ever seen? volpina
Sole on the line

I've always wanted to hang a sole to dry.

Estonian knitted piggy

The cutest piggy

Estonian knitting patterns

Pages and pages of traditional Estonian knitting patterns.

owl

Owl?

Shaping instructions

Shaping instructions

Estonian kitty puppet

Estonian kitty puppet

Kiri Kari, by Anu Raud and Anu Kotli Published 2010 148 pages Language: Estonian ISBN 978-9985-9964-1-6 Purchased from Krisostomus. It was packaged very carefully and arrived in perfect conditions. This made my day.

Ciao nonno

My grandfather died last night. He would have been a hundred years old in five weeks. My favorite memory of him goes back to when I was about two years old and he used to take me to nursery school on his bicycle

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Taking stock

Thank you for the comments about Blueprint. The temperature went down significantly on Saturday and Sunday and I actually got to wear it; now it’ll go in the closet until the fall. It was a great self-directed workshop and I learned a lot, so I won’t beat myself up too much about the problems that jump out at me when I look at it and, especially, when I wear it. Some things I was able to troubleshoot; others I put down to experience — that thing you only get after you need it — and I am taking notes and filing for future use. About that, you’ll see some tales of caution in the next few days that I will then organize under the “Knitbits” page (that will appear in the top menu bar) to make them easy to find. I hope that you’ll find something useful in the mix. Among the tips/techniques that

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will show up first are: gauge swatches, color dominance, and grafting. The past few days have been more about taking stock than getting stuff done. For one thing, having finished a project that had sucked all my time for 6+ weeks, I had a bit of post-FO depression, then our house was taken over by construction workers and between that and the usual sleep problems, it’s been impossible for me to focus on anything.

Fixing the wall in the living room

Fixing the wall in the living room

All that shit that fell from the ceiling

All that shit that fell from the ceiling

the old door

The old door opening

the new door opening with an arch

and the new one

While this is going on, I am conducting a census of most of my knitting needles. Over the years I managed to scatter my needles in such a way that occasionally I buy sizes I already have and forget to procure the ones I need.
All my circulars

All my circulars (almost)

I had started to record sizes and length/width in Ravelry, but never quite got the whole job done because the interface does not provide all the sizes I use, and I’d rather keep all my information in one place. The only other thing I am doing now is knit some gauge swatches with Holst Garn Supersoft held double and Harrisville Design Shetland. The Blueprint hat got stalled because of a major goof and the pattern for the pullover is also languishing because now I have ideas for new things and my brain refuses to wrap up the old stuff. Oh, and I’ve been making and eating lots of apple cakes to make the most of

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Blueprint

Blueprint pullover

Blueprint pullover

Blueprint is finished, just in time for what turned out to be our first summer day. I should have known. Blueprint è finito, appena in tempo per la prima giornata estiva. Me lo potevo immaginare.
way too hot

April's Fool gave us a summer day

We went to the Mount Wilson Observatory for a day

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out and I took the opportunity to get some photos. The observatory is in the Angeles Forest, an area devastated by fires a year and a half ago, the signs of which were evident throughout our trip. Charred trees, some black, others silvery or almost white after being stripped of their bark. Conifers reduced to vertical sticks are sprouting new growth on the trunk and resemble giant pipe cleaners. Ieri siamo andati all’osservatorio di Mount Wilson e ne ho approfittato per farmi fare alcune foto da Ben. L’osservatorio si trova nella Angeles Forest, un’area devastata dagli incendi un anno e mezzo fa e che porterà i segni dello scempio ancora per molto tempo. Alberi carbonizzati, alcuni completamente neri, altri argentati o quasi bianchi dopo che hanno perso la corteccia. Abeti ridotti a stecchini con nuovi ciuffi di vegetazione attaccati al tronco sembrano degli scavolini giganti.

giant pipe cleaners

Giant pipe cleaners

dead tree

Still majestic

On the way to Mt. Wilson's observatory

On the way to Mt. Wilson's Observatory

But among the dead trees, new vegetation has already covered most of the mountains. The Angeles Forest is an odd medley of Alpine and desert plants, resin-scented conifers next to yucca plants, cacti and the occasional palm tree. Some desert seeds actually require fire to crack open and start the propagation process, so after a fire it’s not unusual to see an explosion of desert plants. Ma fra gli alberi secchi nuovi arbusti e fiori hanno già ricoperto gran parte delle montagne. La Angeles Forest è uno strano miscuglio di piante alpine e desertiche, conifere resinose accanto alle yucca, i cactus e le palme. Certe piante del deserto richiedono l’azione del fuoco per aprire i semi e favorire la propagazione per cui non è insolito dopo un incendio vedere un’esplosione di piante e fiori.
Yellow among the ruins

A few surprising yellow flowers among the dead trees

purple little flowers

and some purple ones in clusters

But back to Blueprint. Early on in the project, the name blueprint popped into my head and stuck. It may have been because of the colors — sugar paper blue and light gray — but it ended up describing what this sweater has meant for me over the past several weeks. It has become a sort of prototype for the design process while I improvised, frogged, tinked, cut, struggled with the inevitable math of color work and recalcitrant software that will not understand what I want when I build charts and schematics at the computer. Ma tornando alla maglia… Fin dall’inizio ho pensato alla maglia come “blueprint”, forse per i colori — blu carta da zucchero e grigio chiaro — che mi ricordano le cianografie. Poi il termine blueprint ha acquisito un altro significato perchè questo progetto è diventato una specie di prototipo per il mio processo creativo mentre facevo, disfavo, tagliavo e facevo a botte con la matematica inevitabile dei motivi a colori e il software che si rifiuta di capire quello che voglio quando cerco di costruire diagrammi e schemi al computer. At first I charted the motifs and recorded my method just for myself; then decided to write a proper pattern. Who knows, there may be an audience out there of say, at least seven knitters worldwide who would consider knitting a sweater at this gauge. You don’t think so? There is even a group on Ravelry called Tiny Needles. I am feeling optimistic. So that’s what I am doing now: refining the pattern while I work on a hat to match the sweater. All’inizio ho fatto i diagrammi e annotato le varie operazioni per me; poi ho deciso di scrivere un modello come si deve. Chissà, magari c’è qualcun altro disposto a fare una maglia coi ferri a 2.5 mm. No? C’è perfino un gruppo su Ravelry chiamato “Tiny Needles” per gli altri suonati come me. Mi sento ottimista. Quindi il prossimo passo è finire il modello mentre faccio un berretto da abbinare alla maglia.

Orangettes + reflections

Today is an anniversary of sorts: 19 years since I moved from Italy and the beginning of what promises to be another full year in Los Angeles. There are so many great things about living in Southern California, but I can’t shake the sense of loss at having been away for so long from the environment that shaped me. Every year on this day I reflect on my situation and it’s always a bittersweet affair.

To go with the event I made orangettes, candied orange peels dipped in chocolate (bittersweet of course) from a recipe at The Italian Dish.

orangettes

My first orangettes

Oggi sono 19 anni che vivo in California e da come buttano le cose arriverò senzaltro a venti. Vivere qui presenta molti lati positivi ma non riesco a scuotermi di dosso il senso di perdita che provo quasi giornalmente per il semplice fatto che manco dai luoghi in cui sono cresciuta. Ogni anno, il 31 marzo è un giorno di riflessione ed è sempre una cosa dolce-amara.

Per l’occasione ho fatto delle scorzette di arancia candita al cioccolato (amaro naturalmente) da una ricetta sul blog The Italian Dish.

It was more work than I had bargained for, but so worth it. We’ve already tried the orangettes and they lived up to expectations. In between things I squeezed in an apple–yogurt cake so this will be a super-carb day.

Ci ho messo più tempo del previsto ma ne è valsa la pena. Abbiamo già provato le orangettes e si sono mostrate all’altezza della situazione. Fra una cosa e l’altra ho anche fatto una torta veloce alle mele e yogurt così oggi sarà una giornata ai carboidrati.


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