bad attempt of shop review

today i finally visited one of oslo's best yarn shops, tjorven. they have a bit more than just the regular garnstudio yarns, which are everywhere. but i'd actually hoped they had more imported yarn than they had. i ended up buying two skeins noro kureyon and one skein kid silk haze, too a much steeper price than in any online shop of course. but it's the thing about feeling the yarn, and it's more fun shopping in a real shop:) i also bought some needles i needed for my boyfriend's socks. funny story - i knitted my first mittens last x-mas and started on 3,5mm. but they came out too small since i'm a thight knitter, so i changed to 4mm. i measured my needles a gazillion times, and also the original 3,5mm's and found that all of them was 4mm! untill a couple of weeks ago i was convinced that i had two sets of 4mm dpn's but then i measured again and now all of them are 3,5mm! no wonder my bf's socks became too tight when i started them on these needles, and my mittens are a bit small...

as for my knitting, at the moment i'm just making x-mas gifts. i'm not sure how many i'm gonna make - at least one, and i doubt there'll be more than three. with the one i'm sure about the knitting is done already. hope i get to steam block it tomorrow, then i'll see if i have to re-knit the top part of this thing. my gauge and tension is not the best, i'm afraid:( oh well, to be on the safe side, there won't be any pictures before december 25th.