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: Design
Stormy sea
Another seascape postcard today! This time I was trying to make it less vibrant, more stormy. Higher waves, greyer sand,…
Trial and error
After the big painting of yesterday that turned out way nicer than I anticipated, I decided to only paint a…
Wet wet wet
Yesterday I started a new painting, and really messed it up by adding way too much water. There were pools…
Wet galaxy
Just a bit of playing, really. Using lots of water, and spattering on the stars after it had dried a…
Frankenau
My parents in law have a small holiday house in Germany, right at the edge of a national park. It’s…
Experimenting
Yesterday was a really busy day, and I did not find the time to paint. Today I was going to…
Sail away
That’s what I would like to do. The sun was shining today, my husband was at home, and it felt…
Colour and depth
No postcard today. I decided to paint a bit in my sketchbook, just improvising with the colours of the Winsor…
Curves & Neutrals
My small study of today is part of the ceiling of a room in Casa Battló (Barcelona). I have tried to…
Boerenbont
Boerenbont is an old Dutch style for sets of cups and plates. I still have a couple of cups and…
Ferret
Today’s painting is a little ferret. Not an easy subject! Just like a tortie cat, it has so many different…
Kingfisher
In the past week or so I have been drawing or painting with my watercolor sets every day. I have…
Remember
It has been almost half a year since my dear cat Fiona passed away. On Tuesday September 1st we had to…
Lefka Ori
Lefka Ori (Λευκά Όρη) means “White Mountains”, and it is the name of the amazing mountain range on the west…
Spinning surfaces
I started working on a new set of spinning surfaces. The ones in the first batch worked out fine in…
Dishes
Remember the dishes I made last week? They have been sitting around, drying, after which I gave them a first…
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…
Blending an icy gradient
Yesterday I have done a little experiment with fibre! I have recently bought some inspiring stuff from World of Wool,…
Spindle house
About half a year ago, I made a simple storage solution for my supported spindles, from a cardboard box, 4…
Hestia is finished
Last week I finished knitting my homely Hestia shawl. I finished it on Sunday, and blocked it on Thursday. Right…
Designing a homey shawl
During the Tour de Fleece, I have spun a big skein of Polwarth-silk yarn from two braids of fiber from…
Cabelle is available!
Actually, it has been for a few weeks already, but I did not really announce it anywhere. I finally got…
The hard part…
I’ve kind of finished my painting. I did fill the paper, but that doesn’t mean it’s there yet: I’m quite…
Cabelle Testknit
My newest design is being testknitted at the moment. It’s the Cabelle Shawlette, a one skein light fingering yarn shawl with…
Cocoberry Cowl is available
In the past month or so, a wonderful group of test knitters has been testing my Cocoberry Cowl pattern. They…
No holes
After finishing my Eb shawlette, I decided to try out this pattern design in a different way: I wanted to…
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