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 verwisselbare rondbreinaalden

Denise is aangekomen, en ze bracht haar breinaalden mee, woot! Ik wou al een tijdje rondbreinaalden, maar ik vond het nogal moeilijk om ook daadwerkelijk een paar te kopen. Niet alleen moet je rekening houden met de naalddikte, maar ook nog ’s met de lengte van je rondbreinaald. Ik had echt geen zin om een vrachtlading aan naalden te gaan...

Flower power

Gisteren vond hier in Gent een groot evenement plaats, georganiseerd door de Vlaamse kringloopwinkels. Als thema gingen ze voor retro jaren 60 en 70. We waren niet de enigen die erover gehoord hadden. Tegen de tijd dat wij er aankwamen, zagen we al mensen vertrekken met fantastische lampen. Ik voelde het al, ’t ging moeilijk worden om aan al dat...

(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?

Ik zit altijd vol plannen, en ik ben niet altijd een heel geduldig persoon. Op zich lijken dat misschien wel apart staande feiten over mij, die totaal niet aan elkaar gelinkt zijn. Maar jammer genoeg hebben ze nogal vaak invloed op elkaar. Ik ben altijd wel ergens bezig met een cursus, met bij te lezen over dingen, met to-do-lijstjes maken...

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,...