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The world according to MayaB
www.maya-b.com
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MayaB knits, runs a tiny yarn shop, tries to save the world, makes movies, loves her family, designs patterns and publish a blog, usually all of it at once.
#222393 in All , #993 in Crafts

Simple solution

A baby girl was born with minor hearing difficulties, she needs to wear hearing aids but keeps pulling them out. Sometimes the simplest of solutions are the best! This headband is designed narrow in ...

13 feb 12

A love affair

First of all; a belated happy New Year to all of you! I hope the new year brings peaceful knitting with no dropped stitches or tangles, and may all your chosen film screenings turn out to be brillian...

13 jan 12

Being short (and a competition)

Update: The winner has been announced on FB and twitter, husband gets the Tricable hat, and Lynn Parks gets lovely yarn! / Vinneren har nå blitt nevnt på FB og twitter, mannen får Tricable lua og Lyn...

21 dec 11

I used to be a filmmaker

As I’m about to tell you, this is a really busy fall. So busy I haven’t been able to update the blog and tell you all about the wonderful wonderful event that took place a few weeks ago at the Thames...

06 oct 11

The Craft Trail

There is this brilliant initiative launching this week end, and I’m so lucky to be part of it! A group of independent craft collectives have joined forces to promote crafts at the Mayor’s Thame...

07 sep 11

Glimpse of summer

So we’re back from our summer holiday in Norway, and as you can tell we had a magnificent time! What about you, how was your summer? Vi er tilbake fra vår årlige sommerferie i Norge, og som du ...

06 sep 11

Show off!

So finally there are some finished knitting to show off! Remember this one, Maya’s sexy vest, then you might remember that I was not very happy about the end result except from that I really fell in ...

19 jul 11

In my neighbourhood

As many of you know I live in London, more specifically I live in Stoke Newington. Let me tell you about my neighbourhood. Stoke Newington is like a village within the city, it has an amazing sense o...

08 jul 11

Maya’s got a new toy

Or the title could just as well have been ”mama’s got a new baby”. I might as well admit it; I’m a gadgets person. And even though I hate to admit this one: when it comes to brands I’m a complete Mac...

25 jun 11

Bloglovin

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Just a short note to let you all know that my blog can be followed through Bloglovin. You can use Bloglovin to keep track of all your favorite blogs, now how neat is tha...

16 jun 11

Welcome to the forest!

One of the (few) downsides with moving to a new country and starting all over again is that it can be quite lonely. It is a huge challenge to establish new bonds and get to know people. It might have...

08 jun 11

Birthday girl in the clouds

I have discovered a new favourite designer!!! Well she is in no way new in the knitting world, and it is a bit strange that I haven’t found her before now, but I’m so glad I did. Kate Davies’ designs...

13 may 11

How cool is this!

I’ve been featured! “Knitters to know…” I have to admit that I’m very flattered and humble being given a headline like that. Vandy runs Affinity Yarns a tiny web shop, a...

23 apr 11

Do you KIP?

Within the world of knitting there has to be a special term for everything doesn’t it? If you are new to the cyber world of knitting with all its blogs, web communities, web sites and web shops the u...

20 apr 11

The Inspired Cardigan

Remember this post? I wrote about knitting swatches and about inspiration and design. I even left a tiny picture teaser on what I was working on at that time. Well, finally I can reveal what it was a...

21 mar 11

Not everything in life is knitting…

Although lately I’ve felt like my life is all about knitting, and it hasn’t been all that joyful at all. Coming from me a statement like this might come out as I have double standards, as I always te...

09 mar 11

So you think you can knit?

Well, the answer is, you probably can! If you don’t know how to let me assure you that knitting is easy! I’m absolutely convinced that everybody is able to learn how to knit, all it takes, and this m...

03 mar 11

Maya’s sexy vest

So I’ve finished something that was supposed to be sexy, but turned out not even close to sexy. Since I saw the picture of the model of Mina’s Tuxedo Vest from the book Custom Knits by Wendy Be...

08 feb 11

Finally Christmas is over

No, don’t get me wrong, I had a lovely Christmas with my family, but knitting wise I’m so glad it’s over. With the opening of the shop, our budget this year was really low, and I mean REALLY low. So ...

29 dec 10

It’s my birthday and I knit if I want to!

So I had the best morning ever. My beautiful family woke me up, fed me cake, gave me presents, and left me so that I could sleep for another hour. What a joy!!! There was one present in particular th...

25 nov 10

Inspired

I’ve been knitting swatches lately, and I don’t like knitting swatches, it is a complete bore! But I know that when I visit a yarn shop, I always look for the swatches, the swatches tell me everythin...

06 nov 10

Commercial message, and then some…

If you have followed my blog you know that I normally don’t flaunt my commercial activities here. In that way I’m not a huge fan of mixing work and pleasure, all though these days I have to admit tha...

18 oct 10

Hectic

There is so much going on right now, and even though I have a lot to tell and a lot to show, it all have to wait until things settle a bit. We’re working hard to get the shop finished before op...

04 oct 10

Knitting on broomsticks, as any decent witch will do

I just finished a fun and quite out of the ordinary project. I’ve knitted a wall; yes you read it correctly, a wall. To be honest I actually stole the idea from a children’s activity tent at the Camd...

14 sep 10

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