Amelia

Started a New sweater on X-mas day, with Felted Tweed yarn from Rowan. A pleasure to knit with!

This is a free pattern, found on the Rowan website.

At the seaside

I've discovered Blogger in the App-store.

So this is a test. 

If this proves to be user friendly, I am on my blogging track again!

After a too long period of all work and no play, I'm on a crafting break.

Time to try Lace knitting.

First post in 2011

Yes, I'm back... Thanks to the flu and lots of work, I've been away from Blogland way too long.
I'm still recovering from that horrible flu, but I'm coughing a little less every day.
There's a lot I have to blog about, and I'm starting with a knitted cardigan, finished in December last year.


And I got this cutie pie as a Christmas present from my dear friend Danielle, from Pussman Stuffies.

I knitted him a little scarf already.

And I decided to name him Gatsby, because I received this book on the same day.

Creepy

What gives me the creeps? The usual things like spiders, being alone in the dark, ghost stories...
The first time in my life I was really, really afraid, was when seeing this scene from "Fantasia". My parents had to leave the cinema with me, because I was crying so hard... Guess I was about five years old at the time.

On my nightstand is this book, and it's a real pageturner, it gave me a few bad dreams already.
To stay a bit in the Halloween mood, I did this little knitting project: a pumpkin tea cosy.
It turned out to be quite easy, and I did it in two afternoons. Ready just in time for tonight!


The trees in our garden are giving us quite an autumn spectacle now.


How I love the change of seasons!

Sparrow's nest

A nice little knitting project (while watching a very good danish serie on TV: "The Killing"), that was made in three evenings. You can find the pattern here.

This is my first selfmade pincushion! Although I made it in the wrong season... laying eggs is more something for spring.

Blue sweater

Finished project last weekend: a light blue cotton sweater. If only the weather was good enough to wear it... I'm wearing all my winter clothes again.

A very simple pattern, with a bit of detail on the shoulders.


I found some knitting and crochet inspiration in the movies.
Wish I had the pattern for this sweater... Faye Dunaway in "Bonnie and Clyde". If you know a similar pattern somewhere, please let me know?

I would love to crochet this little vest. By the way, the costumes of this movie, "Bright Star",(about poet John Keats and Fanny Brawn) were fabulous! More information found here ( about creator Sophie Digard) and here.

And finally, these lovely vests,from "The Edge of Love", based on the love life of the poet Dylan Thomas. I haven't seen the movie yet, but the costumes look quite nice.

A new camera

I got a new camera for my birthday, a Nikon D3000. It's really great to discover and try new things.
First of all, I have to learn to get my pictures sharp...
Great models:
SPIPS

and her mother POOH

Today, my daughter showed me how to play with color balance. Crazy results, this will be fun!


And then back to crafting: I finished a cotton sweater for myself, still need to sew it up, the part of the job I really dislike...

Sweater love

Two more projects finished!
A striped sweater for Lucy (I already gave it to her with Christmas, but forgot to show it on my blog...)

And a blue, cabled sweater for me. I'm wearing it now, because it's so freezing cold!


The cross-stitched mouse is finished too, and with all the fabric, trims and ribbons prepared, I hope to get my sewing machine out and make me a cute laundry bag. Wait and see...
Strange, but on photo, my desk seems less messy than in real life.

Knitting sleeves

Another unfinished project: a cabled sweater I started last year (winter 2008). I still need to knit the sleeves (shown here, I always knit them together on the same needles) and the collar. So I guess it will be finished next week and I will be able to wear it in the last cold weeks before spring.
Today, it started to rain, and now all the snow has melted. My garden has never looked so dull and grey before, but I heard some birds singing, oh joy!

Detail of a sleeve.

My knitting companion!

Too cold...

...to work in my room upstairs.

As everywhere else in Europe the past weeks, it has been very cold. So I decided to move my computer downstairs, where I have no internet, but my view on the garden makes up for that.

January had a very hectic start, so I try to get a bit of rest in the evenings. I'm knitting a green cardigan, a rather easy pattern, because I like to knit while watching television.

Our Christmas tree is waiting to get planted, all the decorations were put in their boxes till next year.

The snow started to melt today, time to put a bit of spring in my house.

Crafting for Christmas

A week before Christmas, I decided to make a few gifts myself. This year, we had a Christmas party with friends, and we had to give something to this lovely couple. I needed projects that I could finish in a week, so I made:
a scarf for him

and a pair of socks for her.


After all the partying and eating, I had a very lazy sunday. I did a bit of ironing, a bit of reading, and I made a resolution list for 2010. I wonder what will come of it.

Sometimes it's a good idea to take the example of a cat, and sit by the fire and relax and meditate a bit.
I'm ready for the new year and the work that got piled up on my desk!

Day#16

Knitting.
I'm working on a sweater for a Christmas present.

Sheep around the world

The moment I saw this blogpost on "Flutterby Patch", Eli's lovely blog, I couldn't resist making a woolly lamb myself.
What a funny and cute idea! I hope a lot of bloggers will do the same.

I called her Daisy, and she's already feeling very comfortable in my garden.