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…
Category: Crafting
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…
Spinning surfaces
I started working on a new set of spinning surfaces. The ones in the first batch worked out fine in…
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…
Dishes
Remember the dishes I made last week? They have been sitting around, drying, after which I gave them a first…
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…
Spin, spin, spin
I’ve finished spinning my purpink rolags (88 grams). In the last couple of days, my husband and I have been watching…
Clay and paint and play
This afternoon I decided to work a bit more on my clay items. They had dried enough, and I was…
Painted clay
Today I went to the city centre to get some acrylic paint to try on my clay items. Not the…
Today is the day to play with clay
This afternoon I had some time to start playing with the clay I bought yesterday. It’s always exciting to open…
Meeting an old friend
Today Snorrepot was visiting me in Den Haag. It had been a while since she was here. I picked her…
Frosty skein
The icy rainbow rolags that I have made recently were a joy to spin! I finished the singles last night.…
Petrol & Sport
I have been trying to spin some yarn that is thicker than fingering weight (after plying), but somehow, I tend…
Blending an icy gradient
Yesterday I have done a little experiment with fibre! I have recently bought some inspiring stuff from World of Wool,…
Woolly surprises
I am destashing some spindles, and I’ve just sold two of my MirkwoodArts spindles. They are so very pretty and…
Midwinter unicorn
Two weeks ago I made rolags from some Nunoco mini batts. I was quite in love with the icy colours,…
Functional art
The nice thing (or at least one of them) of spinning on spindles is that you get these beautiful, functional tools,…
Colour levels
I’ve been spinning some very pretty merino-silk by Passe-Partout. It has bits of pink, silver, white, blue… a lovely light…
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