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 …
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. …
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 …