I made this fox for my brother at one of the gazillion gift giving occasions this month. I don’t know how, but somehow almost everyone I know -or, at the very least, everyone in my family- has their birthday in that one month between the […]
Tag: yarn
A wee bit of nostalgia
Now that the Scotland blog series is over I thought it was time to reveal to you what I was knitting on in the pictures. The inspiration for this project brings about a wave of nostalgia and takes us back to the days when I just […]
Toatie Hottie
Remember my care-package from a couple of weeks ago? I didn’t get around to post the result! Pattern: Toatie Hottie Designer: Kate Davies Yarn: Jamieson & Smith Shetland Heritage Soundtrack: Atlantic City by Bruce Springsteen Raveled here This project makes me gleefully happy. The colourwork […]
Work in progress: care-package
Phew, my exams are over. Even though they lasted two weeks, it feels as if I’ve had a study-marathon of two months. To illustrate how bad it got, my friends caught me to referring to an exam that happened two days before as ‘last week’. […]
Island Yarns
Today I thought I’d show you some of the yarns I got for my birthday. If you know the Netherlands, you probably know that it’s not a big country. Yet, it’s not so small that everything is around the corner. I was born and raised […]
Tea jenny
Last week I posted a picture of special yarn that had arrived at the Treehouse just a couple of days before. My hands were itching to knit with this gorgeous yarn. I started this hat and two days later I, during the opening of the […]
Bird Island
The last couple of days, I’ve been battling a cold and started a new semester at uni. Between these time and energy consuming activities, a small package of yarn has arrived. It comes from one of the smallest yarn-producing islands I’ve heard of, can you […]
Dutch Traditional Ganseys
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 […]
That Rowan jumper
According to Ravelry I finished this one back in May (what?!) but that was when I started studying like a maniac for my exams, so I haven’t even got around blogging about it yet! The jumper is the beautiful Finna design from Rowan’s Nordic Tweed […]
Let’s talk new yarn, pattern and rain!
Dear everyone, The past couple of days thoughts have been figured out, an essay on The Real Inspector Hound has been finished and a pneumonia has been battled! Which means I’ve really mostly been sneezing. For the last one I blame the weather, dear me […]