Blame the start of real autumn weather, but lately I’ve been obsessing over fair isle sweaters. And the best fair-isle is, without doubt, vintage. I can browse page after page looking at the colourcharts, the patterns and the pictures. Curiously though, do you know what […]
Circle skirt: Finished
It’s done! This sew along surely was a good way to keep me motivated to make the skirt, since I’m really more of a knitter then a I’m a sewing fan. In the end I’m quite pleased with the result. You can go and read […]
Circle skirt: Inspiration
Since my circle skirt is almost finished. I thought it would be nice to make a little post about my inspiration for this skirt, which you can hopefully see back in my skirt. Inspirations: Suspender skirts: Normally I’m more drawn to 30’s and 40’s fashion, […]
Finished knitting: Mountain view cardigan (or here comes the sun)
Mountain view cardigan is finished! Took me forever to block cause my monster cats were determined on destroying the thing. Couldn’t take pictures in the weekend, with the frigging heatwave fall has going on it was way to hot outside to take pictures of an […]
Jane Eyre 2011
I saw the new Jane Eyre movie a couple of days ago! What can I say…I’m a sucker for classics. I already saw some excerpt from the movie since it’s been in theatres in america since March. We living in Europe unfortunately had to wait […]
Finished Knitting: Mermaids & Centaurs
Done!! Another tiny owl design all knitted up and ready to wear 🙂 I absolutely love it! Have worn it several times already. No modifications at all, just followed the pattern. I was a little worried about the looooong row of kitchener stitch at the […]
Better late…
Then never! Giving a summer, in which we had little sun a much more rain then normal I hadn’t really expected this anymore. However now all my little tomato’s have started to go orange. Truly a special sight in mid September.
CSSA: Circle skirt sew along
Just a quick post to let you know I’m joining in Caseys circle skirt sew along. I’m both excited and nervous about it since it will be my first sew along, and my sewing skills aren’t near as good as my knitting skills. Joining a […]
Finished Knitting Project: Made So Quickly
Pattern: Made so Quickly Book: A stitch in time vol 1 Original: Womens weekly sept 1936 Yarn: Annell cotton 8 Raveled here (Warning: This here will be heavy on non-knitters) So I finished this about a month ago, but only put them on ravelry and […]
So…. What IS in a treehouse, actually?
(This post is also saved as a static page in the righthand column) Four cats, a wolf, and one or multiple families of mice Enough eco-cotton yarn to giftwrap the tree A suitcase filled with ‘Dear Pippi’-letters Enough Alpaca-wool to giftwrap the allready wrapped tree […]