New Year 2014

I just received the annual report for 2013 from WordPress.com Thank you WordPress and thank you WordPress stats helper monkeys for putting together a personalized report detailing how my blog did in 2013 !

Crunchy numbers

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,200 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.

In 2013, there were 64 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 534 posts. There were 221pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 131 MB. That’s about 4 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was November 10th with 118 views. The most popular post that day was Father’s Day 2013.

Where did your visitors come from.
People from 51 countries visited your blog ! Most visitors came from Finland. Sweden & The United States were not far behind.

I want to say thank you to all my visitors and send you all best wishes for the year 2014.

Knitted Scarf

For about a month ago I finished my knitted cap.  It’s a bit too big but I use it every day 🙂

As there was still some yarn left after I had finished the cap I came up with the idea to knit a scarf. I looked for patterns on the net. I found a pattern that seemed easy enough.

The yarn is, “Impivaara sukkalanka”, for socks. Maybe not the best choice of yarn for a hat and a scarf. It has 40% wool, 35% acrylic, 25% polyamide.  Recommended needles number 4. The use of yarn for my scarf is about 260 grams. Cast on 51 stitches. Begin each row with 2 K, 2 P all the way. End the row with one P. My scarf is 150 cm/59 inch long,  13 cm/5,1 inch wide. I think about 10 cm wide (47 stitches) would have been wide enough.

As after the hat, there is, again, some yarn left. So who knows, maybe I’ll think of something yet to knit 😉

Merry Christmas !

It was hard to get a picture with the Santa hood/hat on. It fell off many times. At some point I considered using double-sided tape. Luckily Canelo is so patient and was able to sit still. No tape needed.He looks a little embarrassed but that is because he is doing his best for the hat to not fall off.