My new creations

I don’t know if it’s only me, or three are others like me, but I have the tendency , as soon as I start a new creation to have already in my mind the next one! Many times I make two or three things at the same time. This week, I have three knitting projects in progress and I managed to finish my item for the “frost” challenge chosen by Ingermaaike at the last minute! I made a wristlet/clutch with felt and needlefelted snowflakes on it.


The new challenge theme for this week is “minimalism”, chosen by JKphotography, who was the winner of the “frost” challenge. You can read more about it and see the submissions so far on her blog. I haven’t figured out yet what to do!

Here are my unfinished and finished creations:



At first I started this as a scarf, but it is is wide enough and I'm thinking of making a sweater for me, or a wide cowl, haven't decided yet, but I love this yarn which has a lovely sage green color that gradates to off-white!And I love the bobbles too!

This is a fabulus wool chunky yarn by Colinette, and will be a cowl, with several stripes of cables!


I finished this scarf from crochet flowers and now I'm making fingerless gloves with the same yarn, and if I have enough yarn remaining, I'll knit a cap too!It's a fabulus soft light yarn wool with silk.
I also made this felt necklace:

This scarf was finished some time ago, but I hadn't taken the photos. I will list it tonight.

Designs for inspiration

I always loved the knitwear and accessories of Benetton. They have lovely bright colors and designs. The new designs for this winter are except from grey and purple, nordic style colorwork, stripes in bright colors and many knit accessories, such as scarfs, neckpieces, necklaces a.o. I was impressed by the scarfs with the loopy stitches and thought to saw you how to make them. You can do loopy stitches either knit or crochet. And besides scarfs, you can decorate sleeves, or collars.  

Loopy stitch with needles

1st row (wrong side) purl. 2nd row: edge st., *Knit 1, Knit 1 but don’t slip the stitch to the right needle, bring the yarn in front of your work, and loop it around your left thumb making a loop 3cm long, hold tight, move the yarn to the back of your work again and knit the stitch of the left needle again, then slip it to the right needle* edge st. Repeat the two rows.

Loopy stitch with crochet hook

Chain the desired number of st. 1st row: single crochet. 2nd row: 1 ch, insert the hook in next sc, put your middle finger before the yarn . Pull the yarn and pull through both loops. Pull your middle finger out of the loop and insert hook in the next sc. Again put middle finger in front of yarn, pull yarn through both loops and continue the same for all the stitches. Repeat row 1 &2.

what's on the table today?

Today I mixed German and Greek cuisine and made Viener Schnitzel with fried potatos and eggplant salad (the Schnitzel of course is an Austrian speciality, but I learned it form my German mother :D).

For the schnitzel:

Oil for frying

6 filets pork sirloin

1 cup cake flour

2 cups dry bread crumbs

2 eggs

¼ cup milk (optional)

Salt & pepper to taste

Heat the oil in the frying pan

Place the flour and bread crumbs in separate dishes.

Lightly beat the eggs and add the milk (optional).

Coat the filets first with flour, then dip them in the egg mixture and drain slightly. Next, coat with the bread crumbs by lightly pressing the bread crumbs into the meat. Fry in cooking oil until golden brown. Taste with salt and pepper.

Eggplant Salad (Melitzanosalata)

2 lbs eggplants (aubergines)
1/4 teaspoon salt
2-3 garlic cloves, crushed
3/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup vinegar
2 tablespoons chopped parsley (optional)
1 green mild pepper, seeded and chopped
1 tomato, seeded and chopped
Wash, wipe, and put them on, or under a grill and turn frequently, to cook on all sides, for about 20-40 minutes, until soft. Pass each eggplant quickly under running water to cool slightly and peel them immediately, while they are still hot. Do not leave the eggplants to cool unpeeled, as the flesh will turn black. Put in a strainer and allow to cool, then chop and combine with the salt and garlic. Add vinegar, oil and parsley. Garnish the eggplant salad with the chopped green pepper and tomato.

New challenge, new creations

This week's challenge theme is this time a song, chosen by fleurfatale, the winner of last week: Your Ghost, by Kristin Hersh. A difficult theme, but the creations that are listed so far are fantastic. You can see them εδώ!

I was inspired from the video-clip and made this necklace, which is made with felt covered with white lace.




And since I was working with felt, and tomorrow I have to go to a christening, I made these booties for the baby:

The EST team book project

The European street Team (EST) on Etsy decided to make a journal Book where each member will create four pages, the first page will have information of the member, the last page information about the member's Etsy shop, and the middle pages are for artwork. Kreativlink , who makes wonderful handmade journals, will collect all members pages and sew them together and the project will be sold in the team's shop for charity. I just finished mine:

Elizabethan Era challenge

Τhe inspiration for this week’s creation “Elizabethan Era”, came to me when I saw this Escada outfit,


 which reminded me of the huge ruffled collars of that era, and I knit this neckpiece:

Μy sandals

I’m very excited today! Daria, from Sense of fashion, show my sandals on flickr and ask my permission to feature them on her blog. Today the article was published! You can read the whole interview here. Thank you Daria!



And two fellows from EST, have including my sandals on their treasury list, among other gorgeous creations! Thank you Antigoni & SwedishJewels!