Le chat qui rit
Lately I have been wanting to draw and paint a bit more realistically, but I have been stuck on finding…
Zero to technicolour in 3… 2… 1…
These pencils are so much fun! They’re little firecrackers of pigment, and if you’re not careful in applying them, the…
Over the moon!
I got myself an early birthday present. It’s awesome. It’s a set of Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle pencils. They are…
Good night
I’ve been playing with a sweet little gadget lately: a Korg MicroKey 2 Air, which is a midi keyboard for…
Hot right now
I released Sága Cardigan Thursday night, and when I woke up yesterday morning it was on number 1 in the…
Sága Cardigan
It’s done! Actually I finished the cardigan on Saturday already, but it was so hot over the weekend that I…
The devil is in the details
So I’m casually painting in my little Moleskine sketchbook. It’s quite small, so it’s more of a doodling book. Just…
Against the light
Here’s a little trial painting in which I’m trying to set a scene against the light. First I painted the sky/background…
Hestia is published!
Today was the final day of the test knit for my Hestia shawl. All my test knitters managed to finish…
Depth and silhouette
Remember the painting I was working on? This is the one: I worked on it a bit more, adding in…
Space and watercolour
My latest painting is developing slowly. I’m trying to add focus with every step… but it’s not easy! I also…
Moving into colour dreams
My most recent paintings have been more dreamy than the ones I made in the beginning. When I started painting…
Tour de Fleece – it’s over!
Today is the last day of the Tour de Fleece. Over the past three weeks I have been spinning quite…
Tour de Fleece week 1
It has been a busy spinning week! And of course I had to work to (so inconvenient…). In the first…
Review: Mingo & Asho Glasscapes
Last year a new pair of spindle makers entered the market for supported spindles: Mingo and Asho, two artists living in California.…
Fête de Fleece
Yesterday I went to the Tour de Fleece kickoff party at my LYS Cross & Woods (formally known as Woool).…
Tour de Fleece
Today is the first day of the Tour de Fleece! Spinners around the world spin along with the cyclists in…
Rainy days
This past month has been very, very rainy. Usually it doesn’t rain that much in Den Haag. Living next to…
Meeting some new friends
I had already spotted them sitting in the window sill, but lately they have been getting out of the house…
Waterfall
I’m knitting a cardigan out of Wollmeise Lace in the Ballerina colourway! This project has been growing in the back…
Subtle spinning
At the moment I’m spinning a very nice bit of Nunoco roving. It’s in their Cobweb colourway. I actually spun…
Fluid silhouettes
Even though I haven’t posted about it, I have been painting a bit. Just not as much as before I…
Spin a dozen
The Giro de Fleece ended last Sunday, but I finally finished spinning my 200 grams of singles last Wednesday evening!…
Contrast
I have just had a very busy two weeks! I started on a new job last week, then went away…
Drüggelter Kunst-Stückchen
Last night I returned from a visit to the annual Drüggelter Kunst-Stückchen festival in Westfalen, Germany. This art festival has…
Hestia the second
It’s finally done! I started the second Hestia in September when I visited my brother in Munich, but it has…
Doodling
When you paint from a reference photo, you run the risk of sticking to the photograph completely instead of making…
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