my creative space this week... crocheting the pieces for my blanket together!!!! thats right, no more squares to crochet.. all i have to do now is crochet the bigger pieces together into a blank...
today we woke up extremely early - 5 am - because we were selling at the fleamarket! once a year theres a big fleamarket in turnhout, my boyfriends hometown. when we moved last year, we sorted loads ...
hurray, my socks are finished! i really like how they turned out. :) more details on ravelry!and ofcourse, i couldnt help but start a new pair! i had this gorgeous yarn (scheepjeswol invi...
i have all these basic t-shirts in my closet, t-shirts i only wear for gardening or cleaning. there is nothing wrong with basics, ofcourse, but basic shirt + basic cardigan + basic pants equals a pre...
there seems to be something missing on my right foot... i wonder what it could be... a second sock maybe? no second sock syndrome here, im already halfway through the second! the sock, by the wa...
my creative space today: unraveling and ripping out the neckwarmer i knitted some years ago!i was cleaning out my winter clothes and scarves, found it, and realised that i only wore it about 5 t...
let me show you my new swatches today!this grey swatch is called the honey-stitch, it has a honeycomb-kind of structure.. it was a pain to knit though, i was happy this one was finished. :)swatc...
lots of loose ends in my creative space this week...ive been finishing and putting together all my squares for the granny square blanket this week. i think i finally have enough squares for my blanke...
ahh, finally there was enough light in our living room for some decent photos of the sewing project i finished... as you can see, i made a bunch of pillowcases! i promised my boyfriend a year ago tha...
oops! week 16 (almost) passed and i still have to show swatch 14 and 15! both swatches were lying around, waiting to be photographed... and then a friend visited. she brought us some pretty forget-me...
inspired by all the creative spaces i see at this blog, i decided to join in! i love seeing other peoples WIPs, so why not share my own.. :) i present to you, this weeks creative space: ive been...
yesterday i finally finished the knitted birdie!last week i sewed all the parts together but i still had to give this little fellow eyes and a beak... which is really important, cause the face really...
another addition to the happy list i posted last week:buttons! as you might have noticed; i LOVE buttons. not that i have many projects where i can use them, i mostly imagine them sewed on my future ...
some things that made me happy in the last few days: - harvesting lettuce to make room for other jummy vegetables to grow in our garden!! grow, vegetables, growww!! - succesfully turning th...
after my colleague saw the owl i knitted for my other colleague, he asked me if i could make something for his friend (whos expecting a baby in april) too. we chose a pattern out of "the knitted ...
its kinda funny; just a couple of weeks ago i was saying how much i love snow (and i do!), now it has been extremely warm and sunny for this time of the year and i enjoyed it so much! sitting in our ...
i love sundays! getting up early* to do all the necessary things (laundry, cleaning up,...).... which gives me a whole afternoon to do the things i love! i made orange-cinnamon jam and spicy cookies....
as you might have noticed, im totally into knitting again! (partly) thanks to my boyfriends granddad!my boyfriends granddad (also called vovo) has never wanted anything else on his feet than handknit...
my wristwarmers are finished! i really, really like them! the subtle grey colour goes with everything and they are quite elegant, too! (my boyfriend disagrees, he thinks i look like a beggar when i w...
last week i promised you an update on the granny square blanket. well, here are some pictures! i think im almost there, it now measures 120cm x 170cm, which is a decent size for a blanket. and i stil...
ta-dah! heres swatch no.5; cables this time! so much easier than i imagined... :) its a long swatch, so i could really practice the cable stitch! i like how this swatch is so different in size, ...
wow, i cant believe its sunday evening already! i had a really busy week, not a lot time left for knitting or crocheting... the only thing i did was knitting my swatch a week for week 4. i hope i wil...
another week has passed, so here i am with a new swatch. this time it was an ajour swatch, again i was a little dissapointed because it looked a lot nicer in the book. i probably should have used big...
last week i started knitting with the yarn vanessa sent me. it took some time to find the right project, i have only one skein and i really want to make something pretty with this yarn. (which is 100...
just before the new year started, i received a lovely surprise package coming all the way from the USA. i won a give-away by the lovely vanessa at coloursknits, a really nice blog!in the packag...
a little while ago, i found this book with knitting stitches on the fleamarket. i was thrilled, because it contains 400 or more knitting stitches! i wanted to start knitting immediately!so i came up ...
on the third day of the new year, i want to take out some time to look back at the previous year. it has gone by so fast!! when i was finally getting used to the working life, i moved out of my paren...
one bed/couch-sock is finished! i didnt have enough of the green yarn, so i used dark blue for the toe. you need a little imagination since the sock isnt sewn together yet. (the colors arent great on...
remember the "at-my-boyfriends-place-pr oject"? well, now that i live together with my boyfriend i decided it was about time i finished it. so i did!the crocheting-part was finished some time ...
ta-daaaaaaaaaah! after all those posts about christmas decoriations, finally, our christmas tree!! filled with 8 knitted christmas balls, 4 handmade felt balls (tutorials here and here), pom-poms, li...
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