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maandag 27 februari 2017

knitting

Though there is still a lot
of other projects in progress
there was a lot of knitting the last week !

I found a pattern on Ravelry
and if you knitted the shawl before March 1
money would be donated to a good cause.
Now that is kindness !

I was a bit late to start
but the pattern isn't too difficult
and well written !
It was just the right project for
e lovely soft skein of indigo dyed alpaca
that I got from Birgit

In my stash was also a bit of 
Drops Kid mohair,
just a fine combination !

Because I used a Knitpro with changeble points
I easily could use a "life line" now and then ...
(you can see it in the right picture)

so nearly there ...

And here she is after blocking !

I love how the two yarns work together !!!
*

In the meanwhile
in the garden
...




SPRING

(though today, it's raining all day long !)

donderdag 2 januari 2014

a surprising start

Sometimes 
a surprise 
can take your breath away
...
this one did !


Today was the first time I went out again 
(with daughter and two kids to Rotterdam)
after almost a month of being housebound
due to my silly stumble down the stairs.

After visiting the first shop,
we walked slowly to our biggest book store
where I had coffee and a bagel
while the others did some more shopping.

Then, when I came home
I found this totally unexpected packet
.....
from 
AUSTRALIA  !

In it was "a belated Christmas present" :
the most gorgeously coloured 
hand deyed yarn 

FIRE  !

I'll be honest :
my heart skipped a beat, and it brought tears to my eyes

What a gorgeous present
from someone that lives literally 
on the other side of the earth !

(Ha, I remember,
 when I was in primary school,
a-a-a-a-ges ago,
our teacher told us, that, 
if we would travel down the earth,
like in an elevator,
right through the hot center, 
we would come up 
(with our feet first) 
in Australia !)

THANK YOU VERY MUCH,  ANNE !!!

(what special and beautiful things can come from Blog-land .....   ;-)  !)