I don't think I've mentioned before that I'm a member of the (Dutch) National Spinning Group. The group held its annual member meeting yesterday, with a small marketplace & some demonstrations to ensure people showed up.
And it was actually really fun! I met tons of new people, learned some new things about spinning, and even made plans to set up a ( Read more... )

Remember the yarn I'd spun last post, and the cowl/hat I was making with it ( Read more... )

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High time for an update on all of the things I've been knitting!

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My main knitting priority over the last month has been Lilian's baby blanket. The baby is due any day now, and the blanket is finished!

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High time for a new 100 things post!

I didn't knit much for most of the summer, but a few weeks ago I started something new and found my passion again!

What I did finish over the summer: a pair of warm winter socks. I already have a pair in the same yarn (different colours), and wore it all winter last year, so it was high time for a second pair - ( Read more... )

So, here is my finished Laika cardi ( Read more... )

I haven't updated my "100 things" in a while. Partly because there was little to tell, partly because I was being lazy about taking pictures, and partly because everything else was chaos.
So I'm going to overcompensate by posting two in one day; this is the first. It's about some things I meant to post over a month ago, but never got around to. So, ( Read more... )

Like I've mentioned in previous posts, knitting has been slow these past few weeks.
In part, this was due to the hot weather - it's simply uncomfortable to have a massive wool sweater laying in your lap when it's 30+ degrees.

The other reason was that I'm now working on the border/button band part of my Laika cardi, and it's not much fun. The pattern ( Read more... )

I've been knitting a lot this past week, and I'm making great progress on Laika.

This was my progress on April 22:

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Aside from knitting like mad on my Laika, I've also been spinning.

In the first 100 Things-post I showed you a drop spindle made out of two cd's that I'd bought at the knitting fair. The lady at the stand that sold it let me try out the two types of spindles they had with a small bit of wool roving. When I bought the cd-spindle, she let me keep ( Read more... )