Thursday, September 4, 2008

First Post.

This is my first post.

I am going to post all the projects I am working on at the moment.

I am trying to learn Danish. My mother is from Denmark and I was just there for two weeks so I got inspired. :D I could always understand pretty much everything in normal conversation but I need to learn to speak.

I also did German for four years and got the Zertifikat, but now I have stopped official lessons. I am trying to read the third Harry Potter book in German. "Harry Potter undder Gefangene von Askabaaaan"! Haha it's proving quite difficult since I never studied my vocabulary very well... :P


I am also involved in an amateur video team called VK
(Vrasmena Kounoupidia, which is Greek for "Boiled Cauliflowers"). We started at school, doing a video presentation of a Greek poem called "Tou Nekrou Aderfou" for class. You can watch it here but it is in Greek. :( Anyway, at the moment we are working on a video based on a poem called "Pali Methismenos Eisai" (="You are drunk again") by Kostas Varnalis. We are working hard collecting material for it.

Furthermore, I volunteer for www.librivox.org recording free audiobooks. The books we use are published before 1923 which means the copyright is expired and they are in the public domain. I just recorded two chapters for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and am planning on recording a chapter of Huckleberry Fin, although it's quite hard.

Lastly, I love sewing and doing things with my hands so I have loads of unfinished projects in that category. :D

This is a jacket for my mothers' birthday. I have to finish it soon!


















Then there is a very simple skirt. I wanted to try ou
t this (very simple) pattern I drafted myself and I was thinking of putting various different colored buttons to close it in the back. :D
















Um... then there is a dress for my friend Eleni that I have to hem (when she comes over next time)



























Next is this sweater that I have been "working
on" since 2006! :D I finished this piece which is the front one weekend when I was watching Project Runway episodes literally from the moment I woke up till I went to bed! :D















In Denmark I got this thing with pegs that makes a result similar to knitting. I don't know what it is I am making but I wanted to try it out!



















I am a
lso knitting... something out of an old t-shirt that I cut into a long strip.



















I found these nice patterns for knitting (sort of like Fair Isle) so I thought I would knit some mittens.



















Now I also want to sew these shorts and top from the amazing magazine Patrones that I found in the library in Denmark! Unfortunately I don't have the pictures, but here are the technical drawings:

4 comments:

Elinor said...

κύριε ψάρη!
Συγκλονίσατε το διεθνές στερέωμα με αυτό σας το ποστ. Ειδικά το κομμάτι με τα βρασμένα κουνουπίδια, αξίζει επαίνους.
Γουντ Τζομπ! κιπ ιτ απ!

maya said...

THank you so much for your nice words Ms. Elinor, I hope you like my blog as much as I like yours!

Anonymous said...

:D

σχολιάζω το πιο άσχετο από όλο το post :P.. ο σκύλος δεν είναι "καθαρόαιμος"(ράτσας) ?

maya said...

Oxi einai adespoto :D