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 […]
December greetings friends! I hope those of you who celebrate Christmas had a warm, meaningful, merry and safe holiday celebration and for the rest of you I hope you’ve had a few restful loving days. Ordinarily I would have taken the train and travelled south […]
At the the end of August, Visserstruien 2 (Dutch Traditional Ganseys 2) by Stella Ruhe was published. The first volume was published in September 2013 and got quite some attention, both in the Netherlands and abroad. One of Stella Ruhe’s findings in volume 1 is […]
Here is the second part of my year review. It contains the more personal bits, or anything not knit or craft related to be more precise. In general 2014 has been a lot quieter on the personal level than 2013. Which is good, for the […]
I know I said I was going to post a new finished project later in the week, but look what arrived at the Treehouse just before Saint Nick’s to distract me! I think many of you know how much I anticipated this book, and judging […]
Hey there, I thought I’d try something new on the blog here. I mostly talk about knitting, sewing and craft related things on this blog, as that’s what I’m very passionate about. However my other great love is literature. I think most of you know […]
Long time followers of this blog will know that I live in the Netherlands (not to be confused with Holland!). The Netherlands is a nation with quite a bit of craft tradition, most people from the older generations grew up with crafting being an important […]
Cover Learn to knit, love to knit is a book by Anna Wilkinson, published by Quadrille only a few weeks ago. It’s the book I wish I had when I just started knitting a couple of years ago (oh my, how time flies). The styling […]
