Two things

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …