This is the third Joy I knit. One of the most popular designs of Kim Hargreaves on Ravelry.com and Osinka.ru.

It is knitted with Lana mondial coton yarn "Surf", needle size 3 and 3,25. The yarn is rather rough and perfect for this kind of cardigan, it keeps the form perfectly well.

I added some stitches, some rows, short rows on the shoulders and the darts.

I wore it for the first time in Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

At the Patriarshie prudy in the centre of Moscow.

Very vintage "pirozhok s kapustoi" (cabbage pie) and a cake called "kartoshka", which means potato. Cappuccino was horrible. Never order any kind of coffee except americano in Russia.

Sewing, Knitting, Learning, Reading...

Some Burda and Verena magazines my friend gave me.

Can't help sharing this "small" collection of books brought from Russia. I don't support the electronic books and the acid colored and meaningless Wings, Barbie etc. stories for children. I'll always buy books, good old books. 

Work and excercise books for learning to read, write and count:

Some favorite and best illustrated books for my daughter  and Anna Gavalda's "Ensemble, c'est tout" for me:

Rare and out-of-print books my parents bought me about 30 years ago.

Shopping in Moscow.

A year ago I found a shop in Moscow which surprised me with good choice of italian fabrics at a reasonable price http://www.tkanissimo.ru/about/

This year I was lucky to buy some fabrics with summer sale. Unfortunately, Perugia cannot offer a lot to one who sew.

This silk/cotton fabric will be perfect for a round-pleated skirt. 

It will look nice with my last Coccinelle bag from spring-summer collection 2013 (thanks to my husband).

This cotton fabric will be a simple scarf. There is a plenty of them in the shops, but why one should buy it if it is so easy to sew? I was lucky to get the last piece.

A bed linen fabric for children. Last year I bought another one (Cute bed linen fabric.)

Some ideas for presents (bought in the same shop of Trexgorka factory):