Let’s just about forget the groceries, the cleaning, the weeding and all those other chores for a while, okay? Here’s what the fun to-do list in my head looks like: :: find buttons for newest baby knit (and weave in ends). :: organize craft stuff (so much more fun than organizing paper clutter, isn’t it?…
Category: knitting
Hot
It’s so hot here right now… At first I thought I just wasn’t used to it anymore, after spending so much time in a much colder climate. But Meteo gives out yellow alerts and schools are closing early, so it’s not just me. I had so many plans for “when we’re finally home”, but I’m…
A pebble vest
I’ve always had this list in the back of my mind. A list of baby things I’d like to knit, but I never had a baby to knit them for. My kids were little before the internet, which I think is mostly a blessing, except for the knitting and sewing inspiration I missed out on….
Another little haul
Yesterday I did make it to the right Welcome Shop (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can read how that went last week here). And gosh, they did have quite the collection (it’s not a yarnshop though, but for a shop that carries just about everything – I wouldn’t be surprised if…
Ah, that’s better!
To be honest I hoped to show you a very big haul today. But in the fist shop I visited yesterday I got a bit stuck in my color choices. It also didn’t help that the very friendly and helpful lady of the shop was hovering over me while I wanted to take some time…
I guess I need to go shopping
In my efforts to get really excited about knitting (and maybe a little bit of crochet?) again, I decided to find some patterns I’d like to work on (for the grandson, of course!). That turned out to be a little bit overwhelming. (not pictured: Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Baby Surprise Jacket – I’ve wanted to try and…
Knitting for… baby!
It wasn’t all bad and stressful these past months. We were only a few weeks in the country when my daughter E. and her husband (they got married last September) announced some wonderful news. I’m going to be a grandmother in December! So I quickly knit up some booties and a little hat, but I…
I feel like Goldilocks
Not that I’m house crashing with three bears, though. That would be… weird. To say the least.But the hats I’ve been making for my mother did get me thinking about that fairy tale.Remember? The first beret I made for her was too small. The second one was better, but actually a bit too big.But now……
Warm feet
(writing this from the Netherlands, but the pictures were – obviously – taken on Curaçao) I finished these just in time to take them with me. I have to admit that the color really, really isn’t me. I bought this on the island, and there wasn’t a lot of choices. I do like the color…
A beret for my mom
It’s kind of silly to realize that over the years I’ve been knitting so many hats, but only one beret (over 12 years ago). It may have something to do with the fact that this style of hat went out of fashion. I’d never know that for sure though since fashion has never been my thing….