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Oooh, what a wonderful bright and cold 

Sunday

We went to a birthday party 

and when we drove back, there was this thin slice of moon

kind of lying on it's back

but you could detect the shadow of the rest

A wonderful sight !

(no picture, my moon pictures always go wrong)

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On the boat yesterday to the Stitch'nBitch group

I did what I always do :

knitting !

The work on the mitered red vest is nearing the end 

as to knitting squares, 

only the half ones at the bottom need to be done.

But I also have something simple with me, because

 talking and knitting 

not always goes together quite well,

so these are my latest socks

(Magico yarn) 

(Ha, also have the wonderful "mystery" socks to continue

with the pink yarn J gave me for my birthday,

but that's NO option doing while talking) 

knitting again ...

The last day of  October  already

and although actually we are not into Halloween over here

I thought this lady is suited for this day

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I'm knitting again !

But first I frogged a try-out with the lovely coloured

Rowan kidsilk haze stripe and some Drops alpaca,

the two didn't work well together.

I bought some new light blue Drops kidsilk to go with the Rowan.

Then I picked up the mitered vest,

that was kind of hibernating for a long time,

and started knitting ...

At least, that's what I wanted

but I had to do some serious reading

before I remembered again

how to do the pattern

I think it must be old age:

because I didn't know with how many stitches to start with,

what to do with the first and the last stitch on the row ...

and I had done already quite a bit ! 

And I have done a vest just like that before !!!

But luckily the magazine was still there  ;-)

( yes, from  looooong ago )

I remember people asking when I was wearing the blue vest

( that I did before ... but gave away to a friend ) 

if I sewed all the little parts together ?

NO

you don't have to

and this clever way to do it, was all in the magazine !

( Nowadays you can also find similar patterns

for mitered knitting on "Ravelry" )

HA ... and the fun part is

that you never have more than 25 stitches on your needle

(or 49 stitches when I make the bigger squares) 

The back and side pieces are finished so I could start on the front

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Our two housemates

enjoyed a lot of autumn sunshine !

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The last fun thing for today was brought by the post

a huge bag "mit Liebe verpackt" with wool I ordered in Germany

( I'll probably take part in a Christmas fair in the village

so there has to be done some serious felting ! )

Ohhh, we had a very clear sky last night

so there was still the beautiful moon

last stitches

Sun and clouds today,

enough sun to sit a bit in the garden

with the felted vest.

Time for a few stitches.

Accents only, to bring out the subtle prints

of plants and string that survived

the felting process

The orange that stands out a bit is from a package

of yummy silk things and bits I bought,

the silk embroidery thread

is what I used to tie up the dye bundles,

so it matches nicely.

I also had to think about making a closure.

I took a piece of a stick I found at Dorie's place

and made a nice pin!

( I hope it will last ... )

Okay !

And some stitches on the back ...

... finished.