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Second knitting project
This was meant to be my first knitting project, but thanks to my brother this became the second instead. 485 rows and 8 colours in a random stripe-pattern became a scarf of 1m60. The pattern by the purl bee was meant for a cowl, but when I started it I wanted a regular scarf. But now that my project was…
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First knitting FO is a fact!
My very first knitting project is finished! And typically for me, it is not the first project I started. Nope, not the striped scarf is finished, but the ribbelscarf for my brother is. The picture has been taken at 5 o’clock on Tuesday morning, so it’s not the best quality. I just really wanted to deliver the shawl that day,…
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Once upon a time…
…there were three skeins of Alpaca. Three beautiful, soft skeins of Alpaca, each in an even more beautiful colour. A rust coloured skein a blue coloured skein and a purple coloured skein These three skeins of Alpaca were bought a long time ago in a sale. They weren’t bought for a particular reason. No, no reason but the fact they…
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Going overboard
I’m already planning my Christmas presents. A bit early perhaps, but the earlier the better I think. Especially with my erratic hooking abilities 😉 Anyway, no better excuse than to splurge on yarn than planned presents. So I bought some yarn last week. A LOT of yarn… On August 30th my first order was a fact. I have a very…
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Planned random
A couple of days back there was again a discussion on Ravelry about the random use of colours. The popular projects by Lucy from Attic24 are always very colourful and each colour is chosen at random by grabbing in a bag without looking. ©Attic24 – ©dennismarquez – ©Nanita – ©tiggersjp I can’t do this. I don’t know why,…
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If you can’t appreciate the small…
I’m really pleased with my latest purchase. Like a small child. Yes, this ordinary looking basket really made me happy. You can probably guess the purpose of this basket, no? Keeping together skeins of yarn, of course. The yarns I’m currently working with in particularly. Before, I always used plastic backs to keep together the yarn of my current project.…
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Hot hot hot!!
Man, it’s way too HOT here. Too hot to do anything. Personally, I’m not good with this kind of heat (i.e. 30-35 °C). I feel so lethargic and my arms and legs weigh like lead. So there wasn’t much action around here this weekend. BUT I did make a decision about the patchwork blanket. To be honest, I sort of…
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Patchwork blanket
Again I let myself get tempted to start something new, even though I had planned to first finish some of my WIPs. But be honest, would you be able to resist this? Isn’t it gorgeous? And such beautiful colours. I for one couldn’t resist and dived in my stash. For a while now I have been looking for a…
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Pattern: Hearts Blanket
Hello all! As you can see, I’m back from vacation and here to give you the reason why you probably all visit me 😉 : the translation of the popular post explaining how to make the hearts blanket. I must say I’m quite overwhelmed by all the attention my rainbow heart blanket has been (and still is) receiving on…
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Tutorial: Ministeck Join
Goodday to you all! Today I shall try to explain to you, with lots of pictures and charts, how I joined my squares in my kaleidoscope blanket a.k.a. the ministeck join. It really is a very easy and very quick method. Perfect to join hundreds of little squares ^_^ . Important to know is that this join will only work…
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