[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MIVVVP_Nto] When I first arrived in Madrid and we signed the contract of our apartment, I found, very close to it, a shop where they sell yarn, fabric, needles, buttons and all you can need for your projects. The shops was recently opened and owned by three kind and funny …
Author: Elena Knits
Summer knitting
It is my first real Summer in 5 years. I started knitting last August and crochetting in September of 2009. I’d heard before that during the Summer one doesn’t feel like knitting. At that moment I did not completely understand that statement because it never happened to me… until I …
Socks: Challenge Accepted!
Since I started knitting I used to admire with envy the beautiful socks other Raverlers posted on their profiles: plain, laced, multicolored, unicolored, …. I confess that I absolutely LOVE Dona‘s socks, and my wish is, one day, to knit beautiful socks like her. I was really looking forward to …
Campaign for Wool
Last Thursday some knitters and crocheters met in Madrid for this event: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ZOAWNJULw] Despite the big amount of pollen in the air, I decided to join them and attend this unique event, where I met lots of people. You can watch the entire program at: The part about the “Gran …
The owls are not what they seem
I always wanted to make this sweater. I proposed for a KAL in the group Madrid Knits and it won 😀 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCf-oiIbVnw] After looking for an alternative wool for the Owls since Christmas, I finally decided myself for Cascade Ecological Wool. I’ve always been sensitive to wool, not really allergic …
Moving
It’s been one month since last time I wrote something here. This last four weeks have been a bit hectic due to our moving from Brussels to Madrid. The 14th the moving company came to put everything in boxes and take them away, and the next day we were also …
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 …
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 …