What came in the mail today

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Yesterday I almost finished the back of Marilyn I’ll post some pictures later. Not much knitting today, the weather sucks it keeps raining (not just raining, but almost biblical rainfalls every hour or so). Today I am preparing to look for a job since I [...]

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Back from Maastricht

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On thursday and friday I was in Maastricht with my dad. It was about sixteen years ago that I las visited Maastricht. It was even better than I remembered. The people are very friendly, the city is beautiful with a lot of tiny medieval houses [...]

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Present!

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My boyfriend’s parents visited us today. I gave my boyfriend’s mother, marjan, her scarf (sans cat). And because she hadn’t seen me for a while we went to the yarnstore where I got 3 balls of Kid Silk Haze in the colour I wanted [...]

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Cat and Scarf

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I finally finished the scarf I for my boyfriend’s mother. I’ve been working on this for a long time. The pattern is Misty Garden by Jo Sharp from Scarf Style. I used two strands of Kid Silk Haze held together. One a solid colour the [...]

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Finished bag

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I had swatched for a knitted bag earlier this week and actually knitted it yesterday. I simply knitted it in the round decreased for the handle pieces and sewed the bottom. The handles I took from an old hideous bag. Because I wanted to finish [...]

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Things I learned from Kiri (and Birch)

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How I wanted, no lusted after, Birch. Especially when other people posted their beautiful examples like this and this. I caved when I tried on one in my LYS. I bought the yarn, Kid Silk Haze in the lightest, frothiest baby pink. I [...]

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Baudelaire

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I swatched for the bag yesterday and I figured knitting in the round and sewing the bottom would be the smartest (and easiest). Since my hands were still hurting from swatching the yarn for the bag I’ve started something new.
In honour of the movie I [...]

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Will it work?

probeersel tas
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My paper is not yet finished, but I did swatch for the bag. I like this yarn which is made by Katia en is silk, viscose and wool. I want the bag to be sturdy, or at least not lose it’s shape so I’ve [...]

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First Post

I used to have a different blog called ‘adventures in knitting’ on which I posted a whopping five times.
Time to start afresh or anew or whatever you may call it. I now have a good computer, an acceptable camera (well not really, but it takes pictures) and have been knitting a lot. Today (or tomorrow [...]

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