Spin a dozen
The Giro de Fleece ended last Sunday, but I finally finished spinning my 200 grams of singles last Wednesday evening!…
Category: Fibre crafts
Contrast
I have just had a very busy two weeks! I started on a new job last week, then went away…
Hestia the second
It’s finally done! I started the second Hestia in September when I visited my brother in Munich, but it has…
Giro de Fleece
Today the Giro d’Italia is starting here in The Netherlands, in Apeldoorn. Like the Tour de France, this is a…
Sock Madness Round 4: Sweet Nuttins Socks
After a two week break, the Sock Madness continues! The moderators needed some time off, and so did most of…
Robots vs. Downtown mitts
The recipient has received my swap box, so I can finally show what I’ve been knitting in the past weeks!…
Dutch Knitting Days
Last Friday and Saturday the Dutch Knitting Days were taking place in Rijswijk, which is really close to where I…
Spun, plied, and skeined
My Deep Blue Sea spinning project is done! Well, almost done. I still have to give the skeins a bath.…
Blue spinning wheel
No, it’s not made of metal. It’s the big spinning project that I’ve been working on for a while now.…
Sock Madness round 3: Waimakariri Socks
Last Tuesday when I woke up, the third Sock Madness 10 pattern had arrived in my mailbox during the night.…
Keep on spinning…
My current spinning project is quite a large one: I’m spinning about 415 grams of grey-blue rolags. The project has…
Finished Rose & Thorn Socks!
My socks are done! In only 4 days! And I hardly knitted on Tuesday… I never knew I could knit…
Sock Madness round 2
Today when I woke up, I had an email from the Sock Madness organizers: I’m in team Kweechah Knotweed! Kweechah…
Knit & Knot
Another intense day today: time for the first edition of the Knit & Knot knitting fair in Tilburg! The first knitting…
Sinterklaas in spring
Huh? Sinterklaas in spring? That’s right, today I’m celebrating Sinterklaas with a couple of knitting friends! Officially Sinterklaas should be…
It’s madness, I tell you!
Knitting one pair of socks in a week, and not even working on them all the time! I didn’t know…
On my heels
The SlipStripeSpiral socks are coming along nicely. I’m not in a hurry, there’s plenty of time to finish them, so…
Toes are up
At first I was a bit busy with other things, but two days ago I got started on the Sock…
Mending
Amazingly, I have never learned darning yet. On the first Dutch Knitting Days there was a workshop about it, but…
Tubularity Cowl
Two years ago, a KAL was started in the Dutch Karma Group. We would knit the Tubularity Cowl by Martina…
Let the games begin!
Today is the first day of the annual Sock Madness (SM)! It’s already the 10th edition of this crazy sock…
Lime and grey and grey and lime
The Bahija wristlets are done! I made these for a friend with whom I was doing a swap. She provided…
Stormy sea
Even though the paper I’m using is quite terrible, I took it out again today to make a painting. I…
Deep blue sea
I was almost out of rolags! I still had about 50 grams of dark blue rolags, but nothing substantial. So…
Oktober rolags are done
Those nice, autumny colours of the Oktober rolags may not be in the Cool Summer palette, but I sure love…
Moonbird
It arrived! It arrived! My moonbird spindle is here! This gorgous Midi Pu Yok from Malcolm Fielding came to live with…
Longing for colour
It may be spring(-like), but it’s still quite cold. Today it even snowed in the east of the Netherlands! Not…
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