Summer came and went fast and my knitting and sewing plans more or less fell into pieces. I stopped knitting to make sure wool was not causing the eczema on my hands. Anyway, I was not very motivated at all to invest time doing things that I enjoy. I preferred …
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Bowie’s inspired series
I’ve been listening to David Bowie‘s music a lot lately. And if you remember, I’ve talked about Life on Mars series a while ago. Mmh, this post is from October, so it means I’ve been Bowie obsessed for almost 4 months (omg, I should get a life). On that post …
One skein
This is what Annalisa and Borboleta got me for my birthday. It’s funny to think about the fact that they went to one of the oldest craft shops in Madrid. This shop celebrated their 100 anniversary this year so I’m not lying when I say that it’s old. The site …
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 …
Make a complete muslin
One of the things we enjoy less of the process of sewing is making a muslin (I also hate cutting the fabric, but that’s because my place is quite small). Skipping this step is very tempting, since it implies making at lest two garments: the muslin(s) and the finished project. …
A-line skirt
I started a class about pattern drafting almost 1 year ago. My first project was a skirt of which I’m not especially proud. It’s an ok skirt, but it’s not exactly what it was meant to be, and now I feel some basic concepts were not explained during the class …
Mad Men Dress Challenge
Here is my dress for the challenge. It’s based in a couple of dresses but I did not buy any special fabric since I knew I lacked time and this was not going to be a masterpiece. I recently found a shop here in Madrid where they have very cheap …
The Great British Sewing Bee
This is my new discovery. Thanks to Tilly I have discovered this TV show from the BBC. I haven’t watched TV for years and I got tired long ago of those lame singing contests (I think there’s one now called Splash where famous people jump to a swimming pool, stupid). …
WordPress nightmare
I have a problem with my blog. Some of you might have already guessed, especially if I left you comments on your blogs. Here is the thing.When I created the domain elenaknits.wordpress.com I did it under another username. It was an old name from an old blog I used to …
I’ve got stripes!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx6NUyyEwJs] This is what I’m saying since Sunday, after I had to change color and finally I’ve got stripes. Please forgive me for this, but it’s my first knitting colorwork (I’ve done it plenty of times in crochet but never in knitting), and even if compared to other things it’s …