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From Elsa to Crystal
Christmas has been over for a while and the Christmas presents have all been unwrapped, so time to show them here! Like every year, I make a large part of my Christmas presents myself. My most productive months of the year, when I actually finish crafts, are usually November and December. This year I kept track: in 2022 I made…
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Peacock sweater
Christmas has been over for a while and the Christmas presents have all been unwrapped, so time to show them here! Like every year, I make a large part of my Christmas presents myself. My most productive months of the year, when I actually finish crafts, are usually November and December. This year I kept track: in 2022 I made…
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Winter Garden Sweater
Even before I bought the knitting-mill, I had again caught the knitting bug. It all started with the blankets I made earlier in the year and the fact that a number of seamstresses I follow on YouTube suddenly started knitting. This reminded me that I still had so many cute sweater patterns that I wanted to make for myself one…
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I bought a knitting mill!
As the title says, I bought a knitting mill. Somewhere at the beginning of November already, and I’ve played with it quite a bit since then, so it’s high time to show it here too! First and foremost, what is a knitting mill? Ewel, you undoubtedly know a knitting nancy? That is a wooden doll or mushroom with around 4…
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Rule of thumb
The very first wearable item I ever made were crocheted fingerless mittens. Since then I crochet at least one pair of them almost every year. Over the years I have developed my own method of making them and have collected a lot of notes from each new pair I make, tweaking and improving my pattern a bit each time. Granted,…
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Hot off the knitting needle
Ever since I knitted my first baby blanket, the itch to knit has been slowly coming back to me. To harness that urge, I decided to dig up some more old stash yarn and knit it up in the most basic pattern that I could find that wasn’t just rib stitch. And that’s how I stumbled on the Sliding is…
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Knitted colour block blanket
Knitting a blanket has been on my wish list of things I want to make for a while now. My go-to method for making blankets is crochet. There are so many great patterns and so many ideas in my head that I want to explore. But still, the idea of knitting a blanket kept popping up in my head too,…
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Arachne
When Andi Satterlund from Untangling Knots published her Arachne last year, I couldn’t stop myself from buying it and scouring my stash for fitting yarn. I knit a couple of swatches, considered some different colour options for the spiderweb and then enthousiastically started knitting Round after round flew from my needles, so that I could see that beautiful spiderweb grow.…
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Kokeshi dress for princess P
Princess P, daughter of my friend (*ahum* queen) Evelien, celebrated her birthday. The perfect excuse for me to make another Catalina dress. I found a really cute (kawaii) fabric in my stash: fuchsia with a pattern of kokeshi dolls After she made a couple of pirouettes the dress received the Princess P seal of approval 😉 Cheers, Charlotte
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Lola floral dress
A while ago I bought a number of fabrics online at budgetstoffen. I actually only needed one thing, but all stores were closed at the time for known reasons, so to avoid shipping costs, I bought more than strictly necessary. OK yes, that’s the excuse that I keep giving myself;) One of the fabrics I bought was a light, supple…
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