I’ve been thinking about blogging a lot. I wanted to add “lately”, but I guess I’ve been thinking about it a lot for years now and I know I’ve mentioned it before. I’ve had so many reasons to stop: lack of time, lack of readers, depression caused by not feeling good enough, not being able…
Category: life lately
Knitting and reading (yarn along)
I’m linking up with Ginny’s Yarn Along today and I thought it would be fun to look back on what I’ve been reading and knitting last month. Not that I plan to post extensive reading lists and ratings, I tried that for a while on my Dutch blog, but it took all the fun out…
Organizing my fabric stash
Lately, I’ve been feeling… well… sad. Unsettled. Unhappy. Overwhelmed. I don’t know. It’s hard to explain.There are reasons for that, of course. Worries about my mother and the girls, lots of work and some of that with really harsh deadlines. The biggest one of those I imposed on myself by the way. So nice of…
Goals for the week
Good morning! Hope you all had a great weekend. We did. I decided to shake things up a bit and move the weekly goals list to Monday (easier to prepare ahead, I’m all about making my blogging easier and more fun these days).I did pretty well last week. I did underestimate the time it would…
A simple sewing project
Oh, I’ve been dreaming of sewing for a while now. If you’ve been here for a long time (E.!) you know I used to sew lots of bags and sometimes even quilts. But these past years have been hard. I sometimes tried to get back to it, but I never really did. Until last Saturday.I…
A quiz
(sometimes it’s easier to just answer a few questions instead of writing an original blogpost) This Quiz comes from here, I found it at Chrisknitssews. Feel free to join in if you dare. 1. What was the last food you ate? Two boiled eggs (breakfast)2. Do you sleep with socks on? Sometimes, but not since we…
Just a fun little hat
I had so much fun knitting this little hat! It was a step up from the plain knitting I had done for the past few months, but not too hard for my brain to handle right now.I did the ribbing* as a 1×1 rib with a twisted knit stitch to make it look a bit…
Crafty goals
So, last week was mildly successful. I did enjoy a bit of knitting daily, but it went kind of slowly, because I wasn’t feeling so well. Still, I had fun, that’s what counts. I did get to sewing last Saturday and that felt so so good! Since T. will be away again this Saturday, I’m…
A weird week
Last week was weird. Not really bad, but not really good either. I felt sick, but I really wasn’t. I tried to rest, but we had some broken nights (customers from Holland calling – time difference can be a problem). But at the end of the week, I managed to get my act together and…
A very plain sweaterdress
Yes, plain. That’s what it is if you’re honest about it. No embellishments, no special pattern, just the most simple construction. But that’s also exactly what I wanted. I was hoping to find myself a basic pattern that I can build on in time.And that’s just what I got. It fits perfectly, and I’m already…