Lately I've become obsessed with intarsia mittens from Norway, Sweden, and anywhere else. I haven't been able to learn all that much about the history and the background behind all the amazing designs I've seen, but I hope to in the future (the local libraries I went to yesterday were lacking some serious... everything, weakest libraries I've ever been to for sure). Besides the history, the images I've found and the patterns (free mostly too!) have made me feel completely inspired to try my own. I have tons of ideas for these mittens I hope to accomplish (I've started my own simple pair out of the one decent book about Norwegian mittens I was able to find at a local library). So I thought I'd share with you some of the amazing mittens I found while prowling around the internet, hope you get just as inspired as me!
If you are interested in more patterns (free too, the best kind of patterns) then check out this site, it has so many amazing patterns and a blank template for you to create your own, plus millions of other knitting patterns for a hundred other things, really an amazing site.
Also, this book "Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition" has been referenced all over the sites I've been looking at, and I'm thinking of getting myself a copy, looks pretty amazing.
This past week or so I discovered that Aaron has never watched Dexter before, so we have set a goal to fix that. We are currently on season 2 and he's totally loving every minute of it, plus I'm enjoying re-watching them again. Reminds me of exactly why I love this show so much.
Hocus Pocus has to be one of my favorite Halloween movies. Thank goodness it's almost Halloween and the perfect time to watch it!
Little fact about me: I am majoring in art history and hope (fingers crossed) to become an art librarian (or something in that type of field) in the future, and when I found the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) site it got me so excited. Not to mention that they do art book reviews monthly on their website. Too cool. My geek-ness is showing!
While looking for Chopin videos on youtube, I came across Yundi Li, an amazing Chinese classical pianist. He is known for being the youngest person to ever win International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in 2000, at only 18! I may not seem it, but I really love me some good classical music, and Chopin is top notch for sure. Check out this video of Yundi Li playing Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2.
I wish it got cold enough in southern California to wear stuff like this!
Love this outfit found on LOOKbook. I always wear dark colors/mostly black (not on purpose! It's just most of what I own in black) and I'm thinking maybe I should start wearing lighter colors like this.
If you're a knitter then chances are you know about Ravelry and the amazing postings you can find on their site, plus everyone loves free patterns, right? Here are a few of my favorite patterns that I hope to sometime in the future (at some point in time and space hypothetically) I would love to make. (If you don't have a Ravelry account, I would suggest getting one because it's always interesting to see all the different things that people can make, plus all the patterns I've put here are free as long as you have a Ravelry account.)
