Over the years I made earrings, bracelets and necklaces
Today I had some fun with cotton yarn and a treasure of buttons / oversized sequins I had purchased many years ago
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Quickie Bling
Sometimes a crafter needs an instant gratification project. Crochet jewellery can provide just that.
Over the years I made earrings, bracelets and necklaces
Over the years I made earrings, bracelets and necklaces
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When it's done, it's finished
He's finished!
Oddly, the pattern didn't include a tail, so I had to add one.
And I'll cast on for yoga socks with the same yarn now. Not for yoga classes though, but for a four session introduction to meditation, taught in the lovely Begijnhof in Bruges:
Oddly, the pattern didn't include a tail, so I had to add one.
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| Pattern: Joris by Annita Wilschut Yarn: Scheepjes Invicta Everest @ Stoffenhuys Paulette |
I'm very happy to have finished Dagobert (there were moments when I didn't think I would). He'll be a great companion for knitting events. I love Annita's patterns for the fact that she works in a very organic way. Each feature grows naturally from the previous one, the knitter doesn't have to spend an afternoon attaching body parts. "When it's done, it's finished", as a famous Buddhist monk is sometimes quoted.
Sunday I'll help a knitting friend get started with another of Annita's patterns, Suusje the mouse, if I'm not mistaken.And I'll cast on for yoga socks with the same yarn now. Not for yoga classes though, but for a four session introduction to meditation, taught in the lovely Begijnhof in Bruges:
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Knit it again, S.
Finally I can talk about this project!
A dear friend of mine told us last year that she'll be expecting a baby this spring. This, of course sent me into a mad search for a cute pattern. Once I had whittled it down to two designs, we had the following text conversation:
me - bunny or sheep?
her - bunny
We didn't need to say more ;)
A dear friend of mine told us last year that she'll be expecting a baby this spring. This, of course sent me into a mad search for a cute pattern. Once I had whittled it down to two designs, we had the following text conversation:
me - bunny or sheep?
her - bunny
We didn't need to say more ;)
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| pattern: Flat Foot Floogie by Barbara Prime yarn: Bergere Sport, purchased at Stoffenhuys Paulette |
Yesterday Bunny went to live with baby S.
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I'm still standing
Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind
Updates have been few and far between in June, as I was struggling with some motivation-, inspiration- and energy issues. But I'm still crocheting and knitting, and hope to return to beading and needle felting soon.
These are my current WiPs:
A stash-busting project, using the pattern Apache Tears by Sarah London
An irrisistible little dragon by Zij Maakt Het (Dutch blog)
What is it with me and dragons?
First and foremost, the dragon is my Chinese zodiac. Not quite water, not quite air, not quite real, not quite there. If I ever get a second tattoo (and I do want one), it'll be dragon-related. Often, they're green, and green is one of my happy colours. Scales are sexy.
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind
Updates have been few and far between in June, as I was struggling with some motivation-, inspiration- and energy issues. But I'm still crocheting and knitting, and hope to return to beading and needle felting soon.
These are my current WiPs:
A stash-busting project, using the pattern Apache Tears by Sarah London
An irrisistible little dragon by Zij Maakt Het (Dutch blog)
What is it with me and dragons?
First and foremost, the dragon is my Chinese zodiac. Not quite water, not quite air, not quite real, not quite there. If I ever get a second tattoo (and I do want one), it'll be dragon-related. Often, they're green, and green is one of my happy colours. Scales are sexy.
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20130614
A doubting creative
I did this little quiz on the Jen Lee Productions journal and surprise, surprise, the result reads as follows:
What kind of creative are YOU?
What kind of creative are YOU?
20130612
New page - enter at your own risk
After graduating from highschool in June 1995, I started my studies to become a German and Geography teacher for 10 to 14 year-olds. One day we had to write a poem. A little later, I fell in love with a Belgian guy, who was quite proud of his poetry and so I filled a couple of notebooks with ideas and poems. I lost or destroyed these notebooks while moving to Belgium, but a selection survived on an old website of mine.
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WWKiP
WWKiP or World Wide Knit in Public takes place every year in June and I try to attend at least one of the events. I also harass everybody about attending on Ravelry.
So despite not really knitting lately, I joined two friends on the train to Ghent yesterday, where we met up with the local groups and some of our Ostend friends arrived at the venue (Stoffenidee, Burgstraat 38a) eventually.
The lovely Yarnlot took a lot of pictures, which she published on KnitFlanders:
Thank you for the hospitality and see you next year!
So despite not really knitting lately, I joined two friends on the train to Ghent yesterday, where we met up with the local groups and some of our Ostend friends arrived at the venue (Stoffenidee, Burgstraat 38a) eventually.
The lovely Yarnlot took a lot of pictures, which she published on KnitFlanders:
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| Read the blog |
Thank you for the hospitality and see you next year!
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Lalupe
My most time-consuming critter so far is Lalupe, the little dragon.
I used the brown country sheep roving as core material. Normally I stick to my starter kit selection of merino for the top layer, but I had green "felting yarn" and thought I'd give it a try.
Learned:
- embellishing with contrasting fibre
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