fabulous felting ... and then ...

Last weekend daughter and I had a fabulous felting class with

Marjolein Dallinga

( we had looked forward to it for over 3/4 of a year ! )

And YES !

it was all we hoped for and so much more

It was three days of working very hard

on three projects

and we learned sooo much

A lot of new techniques and inspiration to start working on !

THANK YOU,  MARJOLEIN !

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And then

...

the whole world came to a standstill :

our dearest loved-one

got caught up in a terrible hit-and-run car crash

and thank heavens came out of it with, as it seems now, only "minor" problems

when you see the wreckage of what once was a car .....

there must have been a big pair of angel wings around them !!!!  

 But after this nothing else seems important

and I think it will stay like that

at least for a while now 

baktus

A bit later than I thought this weekend

I finally finished the special "Baktus" shawl,

the one with the lacy side.

 I got the pattern at one of my favourite yarnshops

"de Schapekop" in Nieuwpoort.

It's true that I did buy a few times on-line,

but with yarn I like it best when I can feel what I'm buying

and also colour wise I think it's much safer

Mmmmmmmm

I love these self striping yarns

( Drops Delight )

( and something different about colours : here )

The pattern was easy

and I especially like the edge of the strait side of the shawl !

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Now I will have time for my "big cloth", I think,

however ...

aren't there any other things to do ...

with Sint Nicolaas and Christmas coming up ?

11 - 11 - 11

Isn't that a beautiful date ?

( well : not everybody in the world is having this same funny date ...)

Eleven

... some say : it's the number of fools,

some say : it's the number of wisdom ...

 Foolish things can be said by "wise people"

however... wise things can be said by "fools"

( I think it depends a lot

what's your own point of view considering

what's being said )

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This week was mandala-week again

both for Man and me

( sorry, bad light )

enough ?

When I'm knitting I like to use

fingering weight yarn :

a lot of stitches on a fine needle.

( Don't make thick sweaters anymore nowadays :

with central heating you don't need them

and outside the ever present wind blows through ! )

I've used different brands of "sock yarn" for the socks I knitted,

a 100 gram skein is enough for a pair of socks

up till quite big !

For my size I mostly use up about 60 (+) gram

so that always leaves me with "one sock" leftover yarn ...

The blue socks of my favourite Regia yarn

( two 50 gram skeins )

were finished and I had about 20 g left of each skein

.....

What to do with thát ?

Since winter is coming I had a good idea :

for fingerless gloves ( mitts ) it should be just enough ( I hoped )

And .......

pffffft, ... glad I was right

( when you see what was left ! )

Which only leaves me with a little bit more knitting to do 

to finish the second one !

( Won't do any cables in this kind of self striping yarn anymore

it's hardly to be seen )



a finished project

The autumn colours in the garden

are fading away all to quickly.

But even on the ground the display is still beautiful

almost magical ...

magical ???

The one Dahlia I had this year, I planted in a pot,

to prevent an early death by slugs and snails.

But probably the spot wasn't sunny enough,

ánd ...

I pinched out the top to make it grow a bit broader.

Thát it didn't like :

it didn't want to grow at all

in the beginning.

But now, finally :

one gorgeous flower

worthwhile waiting for !

( a promess for next year : and no pinching thén ! )

( in fact she's even darker than here on the photo )

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Last year on the Handwerkbeurs ( crafts fair )

daughter saw someone in one of the yarn stalls wearing a lovely vest

She complimented the lady and had a good look at it ... 

and started after she found the right sort of yarn.

Well, sometimes things take a bit longer

than you think they will

especially when there's no pattern at all, just that memory

of something beautiful .....

There was a lot of discussion, and making those horrible

( but necessary ) gauge samples,

a lot of doing and on-doing

( like cutting a part of the bottom of the too long sleeves )

.....

But finally today

the whole project was finished  !

Crochet and knitting, and crochet again ...

the front

and the back

( the true colours lie somewhere in between because of the flash light )

A very proud and happy daughter !