http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsX5BkBsrMk If I’d ever decided to play the lottery, now it would be a good time; because I didn’t win one but two giveaways in one week. The first was organized by Telaria and this last one was organized by Teresa Gregorio aka Canary Knits. She’s already sent me the …
Month: August 2013
Missing Views: How to create an Archive page in WordPress.com
I learned Drupal in a previous life and I even built a website with it. I loved its versatility but also hated the fact that sometimes you were walking blindly, testing things and many times failing to make them work. One of the things that didn’t convince me was the …
Telaria’s Fridays
If you didn’t know, Telaria is giving away some prizes every Friday this August, and I was the lucky one last week. The prize was a Japanese pattern book for children and 150 cm of one print belonging to Lotta Jansdotter Glimma Collections. Yesterday morning I received an email letting …
Completed: Lonsdale Dress
I finished this dress two weeks ago, just after coming back from Belgium. For a while I thought this dress was doomed, since due to several causes, I had to take a couple of loooong breaks due to my stupidity (not really, but I’m sure my mind was somewhere else) …
Burning Fabric
“It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.” William Gibson, Burning Chrome After reading about Rochelle and Tasha‘s proposal, I thought it could fit in my plans. I was planning on making two blouses, one from a vintage pattern and another from a pattern with a vintage inspiration. If you …
A Miette cardigan for the end of the summer
If you’ve been here for a while you’ll remember that around June I bought yarn to make the Miette cardigan since I had decided to make useful cardigans to go with my summer dresses. But at that moment I was asked by Andi Satterlund to test a pattern (another wonderful …
An update to the Jedediah Pants
Returning from our holidays is relieving in some way (I was really looking forward to going back to normal) but it’s also very frustrating because it leaves very little time due to some adjustments. There are clothes to be washed and folded, there is also a big mess in our …
Jedediah sewalong: Planning mods
The release of the Jedediah pants and the announced sewalong just came at the right time, since Koen was longing for a handmade pair of pants (and shorts) after the complete success of my Thurlows (isn’t it nice when our other half support us in our crafty and crazy adventures?). …
Wow, I’ve won fabric!
I’m not usually anybody who wins prizes (that’s why I don’t play the lottery, ha) but this time my luck has changed, because I’m one of the lucky winners of the give away Anneke hosted on the occasion of her first blogaversary. My special prize is a three-yard piece of vintage …
Decluttering and loving the changes
After a week in Belgium and still amazed at how hard the cultural shock can be even after having lived there for more than five years, I’m still recovering. And I’ve entered again into a frenzy decluttering phase. I moved to Belgium in September of 2006 and I had brought …