With almost everything waiting for the moving company my mind is already gone from here. I was a bit stressed before Christmas but all the nervousness is gone now. At the beginning of this week a colleague asked me if I would be missing something from Belgium in my new …
Month: January 2012
Last SnB Brussels (and this time for good)
After saying goodbye to my knitting friends of Brussels, wonderful Ihanitse decided to organize an extra emergency meeting and say goodbye in person. She even put a picture of me with my halliard and wrote this lovely description: Our very own lovely Elena (aka “I-learned-to-knit-lace-la st-night-and-made-this-little-shawl-called-Ishbel” aka “co-ordinator extraordinaire”) packs …
A picture is worth a thousand words
And I would add that a video is worth a thousand images. I bought Ysolda‘s Elijah pattern a couple of weeks ago. To start the head of the elephant you need to do a circular cast on also called “casting on from middle disappearing”. The link that appears in the …
Receiving
After seeing hoy K. treats hand made items, I tend to forget how normal people usually do. K. always wears his crochet hat with fleece lining when it’s cold outside, he likes to hold and cuddle my yarn balls when I’m knitting and he recently asked me to knit him …
Last SnB Brussels
Yesterday I organized and assisted to probably my last SnB Brussels. I must confess that I didn’t feel like going because of the bad cold I caught just when I landed in Belgium. But I made an effort and it was worth it. I saw some old and new faces. …
Ishbel for a long way from the darkness
I started this project while my mother was at the hospital due to surgery, almost at the end of September. One of her parathyroid glands had to be removed and the doctor informed us that this was an extremely easy operation and after a couple of days my mother would …
Beginnings
I was always a bit of a nerd and never spent too much time making crafts. I used to like how amigurumis looked like but the process of learning to crochet and build one of those pieces of art was out of my grasp. They looked beautiful, I dreamed about …
Wool Shops
I started knitting and crocheting in Belgium, so the first wool shops I visited were in Brussels. Those shops were small and what amazed me most was that they all had different yarns. If I bought something in one of them I had to go to the same shop again …
Recommendation: Canary Sanctuary
After a couple of years in Ravelry it’s always pleasant to discover designs that I’ve never stumble upon. And when that happens I always say “but how have I never seen this before!?”. Today it happened with some designs of CanarySanctuary. Checking the last things made by my friends, I …