This year I decided to start with the presents for Christmas in advance. I didn’t want again long and late hours of knitting just to be able to finish the presents. I accomplished the first part, the starting, even though the result was more or less like last year: long …
Category: Knitting
Where everybody knows your name
[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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Walking towards the light
After the longest night of the year I like to think of this one as a bit shorter and the one of tomorrow even more. We are walking towards the light, finally, after a very long Winter. And for me this is not only about seasons. Very soon we’ll be …