Last year my husband bought me a book called Visserstruien - there's an English edition too. It offers patterns used in several fishing towns, including the one I was born. My grandmother used to knit ganseys by the dozen for my uncles and cousins, but n
Tried some more top-down and this time wrote down what I did so I now have a basic pattern. And my stash is reduced by 2 1/2 balls. That came from my mother's stash. Question now is knit a hat to go with it or use the yarn in another odd ball project.
Thanks to my spilling tea over the laptop and a new keyboard having to be imported from the USA I have done little embroidery, digitising etc. Out of sheer frustration I bought a loose keyboard today, so that solved my problem. In the meantime I knitt
Tea and laptops don't mix. Of course I knew, but yesterday I tested it out - accidentally. I tried rice which worked well for my DiL's phone after falling into the loo, but no mitigating effect on my laptop. And now I only have my iPad (generation 1,
I have been playing with the inbuilt decorative stitches of my machine. Since I have an embroidery machine (1992) I have used those very infrequently. First I made the two denim swatches, using resp. 2 and 3 different stitches to get an overall design
Reducing my stash :) Drew the pattern on the go. Cut out the body and sleeves which needed an insert as the width of the fabric was not large enough. Then decided to add a pocket and collar of the same insert fabric. Zip came from my stash too. My home
Heart for Valentine. I have been busy sewing but had to do something creative as well.
Little blue dress. I sewed a rather severe looking blue woollen dress. But there is a surprise, see picture 2. I think it would look nice with a white T-shirt and white legging. The fabric was a remnant my neighbour gave me. The pattern I used befo
Recycled lower trouser legs.<br /><br /> Hubby had a tear at the knee of his trousers. I did not want to make another bag, notebook cover or pencil case (my gift drawer has enough of those) so I did this skirt. Could cut 6 parts out of 3 of the front
Baby jacket. I had a small ball of baby acryl and just got going, no pattern, just a small t-shirt to have some idea of size. I started with the Tunisian crochet top part, then crocheted the body top down. After that I had 7.4 grams (about 1/4 oz) left fo
Cover for small notebook. Made the cross stitch files and tested the larger one first. Then decided to make an ITH cover with a smaller one. Unfortunately my thread shredded like mad, but the machine behaved when I inserted a new needle. But the misha
Baby coat from remnants. The smaller a pocket the more a difference of a few millimetres shows up. And as I did trust myself enough I digitised the outline and made them in the hoop. Next time I want to use them I'll digitise a placement line as well
Have you ever been as stupid as I am? Sewed another fleece jumper (?) , took great care to get the zipped collar bit in nicely without puckers and when I proudly folded it to be gifted I noticed that the zipper pull is on the inside!!! So there's some
What a difference an embroidery makes. The slightly boring solid red fleece I showed in Sewing. Added the embroidery and a simple line of stars along the seam of the collar.
Have been sewing the last couple of days and made some items for a nearby asylum seekers registration camp. Most have only the clothes they are wearing, children often have summer clothes and are wearing toe slippers and it has been freezing the last few