Today I’m showing you the Wilhelmina cardigan, previously also referred to on the blog as “my magnificent fluff monster”. I worked on this cardigan during the great winter storm of late February last year when the snow was building up against my windows and long […]
Hello makers! Today I’m bringing you a post on a beloved finished cardigan that I’ve been wearing throughout this autumn and winter. There’s a set of photos taken on an icy cold day, with layers of frost cloaking the land and mist gracing the tree […]
Happy New Year and welcome to January! I know that apart from the number nothing has changed since the ball dropped but I hope the year will be softer for all of us and that 2021 will be what you need it to be. Our […]
Hey all, I thought I’d show you my blue colourwork allover cardigan. This was my primary knitting project for the winter, a long lost time where it seemed perfectly normal to want night sky echoing colourwork cardigans. A time when going out for groceries wasn’t […]
Hey Makers, I hope this last month of the year is treating you well. I’m enjoying these frosty days and witnessing the change of autumn to winter. Autumn held on long this year, and while most trees have now lost their leaves they held on […]
It is about time I show you this cardigan I knit at the start of this year. I cast on in late 2018 and finished her early next spring. I knit most of it in the middle of that year’s emergency cat surgery drama, said […]
I don’t think any summer has affected my knitting as much as the last one. We broke through a couple of heat records and it was the driest summer of my life time. It went on for months. It reflected in my crafting; knitting went […]
Well hello there first post of February! I’m sure I’ve already seen this on other blogs lots since the start of the new year, but can you believe how fast 2016 is flying by? My birthday is in less than a month, ack! I have […]
It took me a bit longer to get back to the blog than I anticipated. The main reason is that I went to France for a wee road trip, which I just got back from. France was the holiday destination of my childhood, but this […]
The Foxglove is a flower I associate with my childhood. I grew up, knowing it as ‘Vingerhoedskruid’, the Dutch word for Foxglove. ‘Vingerhoed’ is Dutch for thimble, which is a very apt name I think. I associate the flower with home, bumblebees and with my […]
