Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde

My grandchildren visited me yesterday. The younger is 14 months old and I tried to take a snapshot of her -  but was not fast enough. Here is a photo of her shadow.

This photo shows what it looked like when her elder sister tried to catch her so I could get my shot.

I wanted a photo for Ravelry. She was wearing a vest I knit 7 months ago. . A wonderful pattern written in Danish by Else Schellerup. Here is a photo of it without the model.

Any member of  Ravelry know that there are so many patterns put into circulation, so why is it that I sometimes really need to invent one, myself.

I borrowed a t-shirt size 1 year and cast on for a toddler blouse using a combo from these books and fifty years of knitting experimenting and billions of stitches.

Here is the first attempt. I am already aware that the armhole is too tight, I will have to reconsider the construction. Of course I have an indescribable desire to see how it fits, but here is my car-so I must restrain myself.

Tycho Brahe 1546-1601-and Zalmiak

This week the media covered the event in Prague where the Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe´s,  tomb was opened, his body autopsied and reburied.
I think it must have been very uncomfortable and scary for everyone to be present in that church when the tomb was opened. However, the archaeologist in charge, Jens Vellev, wore this sweater, and looking at him must have been tranquillizing.

The pattern of the sweater is called Zalmiak, by Marianne Isager, and I knit one in 1986. For my four year old son.

This photo is before Ravelry. It was taken to immortalize the little puppy, a wire-haired dachshund. But I admit that the sweater is very photogenic.