Yarnlove

The strangest thing happened this morning. When I opened my mailbox Mia had sent me a link to another knitblog, tipping me on a yarnwinder on sale. I immediately called the shop in question and asked them to put it aside for me. At the end of the working day I took a trip to the outskirts of Stockholm (seriously - where is Täby exactly?), sweating my pants off in the unswedish heat that's been confusing the Swedes during the last couple of days. After a long subway ride I took a bus to an odd neighbourhood with lots of trees, a gas station and seven very very tall buildings. After a surreal stroll around the block - very hot, no people except for two very very old, wrinkly and tanned ladies (think "There's something about Mary") in white bikinis sunbathing five metres apart on a huge lawn, I found the right building, and even the shop in question, where the new love of my life awaited me. I paid the SEK 45, went back to the bus stop and had then to wait for half an hour for a bus to take me out of this nowhere place (and not to another nowhere, to where many buses appeared to be headed) and back to civilization.

To make a long story short - I have a yarnwinder, thanks to two great knitblogging women out there!
I here give you evidence of our first yarnlovemaking:

On the actual knitting front, I'm working parallelly (?) on two tiny things: a guernsey for my sweet 2-year old godson Frode, which currently looks like this:








And also the cardigan for my cousin's yet unborn daughter (I hope it's a girl, since my stash - as usual - contained of pink when I cast on). It's quite boring. And I think the sleeve (the finished one) looks kind of tight. But I've found little mother of pearl buttons that goes perfectly with the yarn, so that's a good thing. And I'm knitting in it size 6/9 months, so I don't have to finish it very soon...