Black nights

Those dark November nights have inspired some works in black with some sparkle.
Knitted and felted hand warmers, fading from black to grey, made of Aade Artistic, embellished with large crochet flowers and small glass beads:




A long black rosary style necklace with heart, rose and moon, and bronze coloured additions:




And a necklace to add some starshine and golden spark to the black nights:




For now, it has been snowing almost continuously for some days and the nights are not completely dark - thanks to the 30 cm thick snow cover.

Murphy's laws on knitting

Surely every crafter has felt that the validity of Murphy's laws will eventually become evident in the craft making process as well as in any other area of life. Here are some knitting related laws, which I most often experience:

• You have found a great position in your comfy knitting chair, taken the needles, started to cast on and planning not to move yourself for the next hour or two – only to discover that the fresh cup of coffee was left in the kitchen downstairs...
• As soon as you cut off the cast-on yarn tail that keeps messing with your knitwork, the work is doomed.
• Yarn runs out when 99 per cent of the work is completed.
• The yarn needed to finish a work is sold out in all the yarn stores within a reasonable distance, globally in online shops and its production discontinued.
• The more time you have spent on a knitting work, the more closer to the end you will realise that something went wrong at the beginning.
• The weather is fine and sunny, when a long knitting day indoors awaits, and turns dark and rainy, as soon as the work is finished and you want to take photos of it.
• If knitting work seems to go well, you have obviously miscounted the stitches.
• All horizontal surfaces shall be filled with unfinished knitworks.
• Every project takes longer than you think.