Abfabulies

Project on the outskirts

I’ve noticed that my sewing projects have gone a bit quiet. I could sum up a number of reasons for this, of course. That it takes up a lot more space than knitting, that my sewing machine is upstairs, where it is cold, that I can’t lay out any fabrics on the table downstairs or the cats start playing hide...

Finished caterpillar

The pattern for this caterpillar was quite easy. It only uses simple stitches, and can be finished quite quickly. If you stick to the correct measurements, that is to say…By making it longer than the original, it took me a while longer to finish. It uses a lot of single crochet stitches, which are easy, but rather small. And if...

Denise interchangeable knitting needles

Denise has arrived and she brought her needles, woot! I’ve wanted to get circular knitting needles for a while now, but I found it rather hard to buy a pair. Not only do you have to keep the size of the needle in mind, you also have to think of the lenght of the cord. I didn’t really want to...

Flower power

Yesterday there was a big fair here in Ghent, organized by the Flemish recycling stores. Theme: retro 60s and 70s. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who had heard about this fair. By the time I arrived, people were already leaving with fabulous lamps. I’d told myself not to buy anything that I didn’t really need, but that’s quite hard...

(S)mitten!

As I told you before, I wanted to knit the Give a hoot mittens. As soon as the needles arrived, I cast the stitches on and started them right away. I was a bit worried at first, since I had never knitted anything in the round before, nor had I ever tried to do cables. I also thought knitting on...

How to darn socks

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had this thing with socks. Bright and beautiful with fun cartoon characters on them, you name them and chances are I’ve had them. I particularly remember a pair of yellow Bert and Ernie socks I had as a teenager. They were a present from my best friends’, and I regarded them as...

(S)nailed it!

I finished the snail, and I am quite proud of it. So starting from this: I ended up with this: Although the cat doesn’t seem to trust it, I think I did a rather good job.

Caterpillar

I wasted no time and started working on the caterpillar right away. Now that it’s still freezing and while it’s still very windy out there. The pattern is fairly easy I must say, and I’m getting on very well. Here’s a little something to picture my version:

What’s next?

I’m always full of plans, and I am not a very patient person. These may seem like two simple yet separate facts about me. Not related at all. Unfortunately, they tend to influence each other quite often. I’m always following courses, reading into things, drawing up to do lists that only get longer and longer. Knittycrochetywise, this means that I...

Radioactive symbol

I managed to create a radioactive symbol for the snail! It took me some time, trying to get going with the shell stitch. Until I finally realized that I was making it too complicated. All I needed were single stitches and half double stitches. It now looks like this: I know that there are still some bulges at the edges,...