iPad Pro sleeve
Last week I was on holiday, and halfway through, I decided to (finally) bite the bullet and get a new…
Category: Crafting
Another garment
After knitting my top recently, I decided that I wanted to knit more garments. Even though it’s getting warmer, having…
Rainbow rolags
In the past month I have not been spinning much, and I have not been knitting at all. I did…
Greenery
Do you know World of Wool? It’s a UK-based free shop with all kinds of beautiful fibre and wool. It…
And another year gone
Time flies! It seems such a short time ago that I reflected on 2018, and here we are at the…
Advent and Makers December and Freya and ouch
It’s December, and soon we will face the shortest day of the year. I’m not religious, but I do have…
Mystery revealed!
It has become a tradition: every year Stephen West designs a shawl pattern that is published one clue at a…
Roseroot top in Nachtblau
When I started knitting again in 2009 I quickly built up a small stash of (semi) acrylic yarn from Zeeman…
Treasure
When I started knitting again, back in 2009, my yarn stash grew rapidly. First with acrylics, but once I was…
A great British sewing machine
Ever since my sewing workshop last year, I’ve been thinking about buying a modern sewing machine. I tried sewing on…
Colour taming
Last weekend I finished spinning another project. This one was started in the last week of the Tour de Fleece,…
Tour de Fleece: week 1
The Tour de Fleece has been going on for a week now, so it’s time for an update! I have…
Waking up the butterflies
It’s still so warm here in The Netherlands. The Azores high is remaining stable, bringing warm air up here from…
Expressing your needs
We (or at least I) can learn a lot from cats. No words necessary! This is also what Freya did…
MirkwoodArts Thriathlon: Hobbits (part 3)
I decided to do one final spinning project for the Hobbits stage of the MirkwoodArts Thriathlon. Just like in the…
Finger-up brioche mittens
It has been very cold in The Netherlands in the past week. The “Siberian Bear” came to visit: a cold…
Pretty writing
I like to try out new things and see if they fit me. In January I started a new hobby:…
Zooming on
I started weaving squares on my Zoom Loom about a year ago, and recently I picked it up again to…
Hats!
Winter is here! In the last couple of years, winter was more like a prolonged autumn, but this year we…
Silky chic
About half a year ago I offered my friend MarvelKnits to weave a scarf for her. I had just finished…
Icy green
When I started spinning this Nunoco roving it was still July. I had just finished my Tour de Fleece spinning,…
Winter Butterfly
I’m blocking my Butterfly Dream Catcher (Lily Go Designs)ย right now! I started knitting it during my holiday, and restarted twice…
WIPs galore
I usually write a blog post when I have finished a project, or when I have visited a creative event.…
Story Time
The latest swap in the Dutch Karma Swap group is called Story Time. It’s a long-running swap (three months) in…
Woolly birthday party
Yesterday I visited my fellow NKS-moderator and good friend for her birthday. She organized a wool party for some friends…
Ero Swap
You may know them: the Belgian Boys, Bart & Francis. They can usually be found at the Dutch Knitting Days,…
Double width weaving on a rigid heddle loom
I have doneย a double width weaving project! It was a bit hard at the beginning, but it became easier and…