Magical blended brioche blanket
It’s finally done! The blanket that I started knitting in January has been bound off and blocked. I used up…
Category: Crafting
Visible mending
It’s kind of a hot item at the moment (or I’m noticing it more): visible mending. I recently purchased the…
Spring time
I wrote my previous post in the middle of winter. Now, the world is waking up again. Time for an…
Weaving in the ends
Another year has passed, seemingly in the blink of an eye. I suspect that it has something to do with…
Midwinter gradient
About two months ago, when I was on holiday in Germany, I brought with me a large skein of handspun…
Busy busy
It has been over a month since my latest blog post. I have wanted to post something, but I wasn’t…
Brioche and garter stitch love
It has been a while, but I’m back! In August/September, our house (and the rest of our block of houses)…
Six months of advent
Just like in 2019, I ordered a Schaap & Draak advent calendar in 2020. It’s so nice to unwrap a…
Make your own Ultrabalm
A couple of years ago I discovered Ultrabalm, an ointment made by Lush. I regularly suffer from eczema, and Ultrabalm…
Simple and straightforward
After knitting my Klimop shawl, I was feeling like knitting another project, but simple tv knitting this time. So I…
Klimop
It has been a while since my last crafting post. But of course I have been working on some nice…
Combining Ravelry jsons on MacOs
After typing up my tutorial on how to combine your Ravelry jsons to make them easier to import into Excel,…
Migrating from Ravelry to Airtable (via Excel)
Lately, I’ve been spending quite some time moving my content away from Ravelry, mostly to Airtable. Airtable is an online…
Is Ravelry accessible yet?
TL; DR: No. Please consider joining Silence for Ravelry Classic by not logging in on Ravelry between March 31st and…
Playing and learning
If there’s anything that connects all my activities to each other, like Ariadne’s thread, it’s curiosity and learning. I’ve always…
Song of the day: Nuit d’Espagne
I’ve been playing the violin a lot, lately. It’s fun to rediscover my first instrument! Slowly, I’m getting better at…
Morvarch
It has been a while since my last hand knitted shawl, but I’ve finally finished a shawl knitting project again!…
Rearranging
Today I had my day off from work, and while that day is mainly intended for resting, it doesn’t mean…
Quarter time
My advent calendar is a rather large spinning project. It consists of 24 fibre samples of ~20 grams each, so…
WIP update
With all the singing and cat related posts lately, you might be wondering if I’m crafting at all. The answer,…
Freya and Fiona Friday 5: Water
Both Freya and Fiona had a love-hate relationship with water. Drinking water = good, water making you wet = bad.…
Freya and Fiona Friday 4: Friends
Four weeks, you guys. It has been four weeks already since Freya passed away. And yet it still feels unreal…
Oh no…
Today it was a chilly day in The Netherlands. It really felt like winter. So I decided to wear my…
New studio
It’s almost done! Last Saturday, my husband and my father-in-law laid down the laminate flooring, and yesterday my husband and…
2020 in hindsight
It’s December 31st, and today I’m looking back on a surprising, interesting, and at times difficult year. I did not…
24 days of fluff
This year, I again purchased a Schaap & Draak advent calendar. I blogged about it back in November, when I…
Spinning bits and bobs
Back in April, right in the middle of the Covid-19 lockdown, I got a package to cheer me up a…
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