Qualcosa di diverso / Something different

Oggi mi sono avventurata fino ad un piccolo lago nei pressi del bosco. In questo periodo dell'anno il laghetto è completamente ghiacciato, e i venti che scendono dalle pinete circostanti lo rendono un posto ideale per mettere alla prova i capi di lana.
Questo cappello stile peruviano, un chullo semplice ma molto caldo, l'ho creato con un unico grosso gomitolo, ed è risultato ideale per proteggere dai gelidi venti invernali. Un piccolo dono per la persona che scalda ogni giorno il mio cuore.

Today I decided to take a walk to a small lake nearby. This time of the year the lake is completely frozen, and the whiffs coming down from the adjacent pinewoods make it a very good place to test wool items.
I made this Peruvian-like hat, a "chullo", simple but really warm, with one single big yarn, and it turned out to be an ideal shelter from the freezing winter's winds. A small gift for the person who warms my heart each and every day.

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Bye, Blogger

I'll write on my WordPress blog only, from now on, so if you want to follow me you'll find me there. I won't delete this blog, as I'm attached to it and it reminds me of the road I travelled so far, but at least for now I won't update it anymore.

And here's the Dragon! / Ecco il Drago!

Remember the Dragon Tail scarf/shawl I began some time ago? Well, last week I managed to finish it, and I'm oh so proud of it. Not only it's my first Tunisian crochet project, but it also turned out great, big and cosy and oh so soft (this thanks to the lovely yarn Géraldine sent me, Phil Bambou Laine by Phildar). It is 2 m long from tip to tip and 45 cm wide by the last scale, and the last row counts 110 stitches, which are quite a lot... : ) As I already wrote I strongly recommend this if you want to try Tunisian crochet, it's easy, good fun and you get a nice original item to wear. You might find this tutorial by Julia Marquardt helpful, but if you want to get one that's exactly like mine you have to change the pattern a little bit: I followed the instructions by a great designer, MariaGrazia Berno , who modified it a bit in order to obtain a scarf/shawl that curls up more. Her pattern says to increase of two stitches at the end of every row, just before the se...

Yule

These are the days of Yule, a very special time of the year for most of us, when the Light is reborn and back in our lives. So even if the Solstice is gone, I still want to wish you all to have some wonderful days ahead, whatever you celebrate, and a happy 2015! I'll be back... well, next year, so have some great holidays, and talk to you in 2015! Questi sono i giorni di Yule, un momento dell'anno speciale per molti di noi, giorni in cui la Luce ritorna nelle nostre vite. Allora, anche se il Solstizio è passato, voglio augurarvi di passare dei bellissimi giorni, qualunque ricorrenza celebriate, e anche un felice anno nuovo! Io tornerò a scrivere... beh, l'anno prossimo, quindi buone vacanze, ci sentiamo nel 2015!

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