March marched by

Last day of March ...

sometimes I wonder where did the days go

I've been busy stitching again

You know I work in waves :

knitting wave

painting wave

drawing wave

felting wave

stitching wave

garden wave

...

(Yes, that last one was necessary

since spring has begun

and there was lots of stuff that

had to go in the "green" bin,

not finished there yet)

So :

stitching !

(lots of snippets that have a meaning to me

or come from far away, like the black-and-red shibori silk)

I always love the back

with the "glue-stitches" in place)

But I work at two at a time :

a nine-patch cat

Mister "Starry Eyes"

(he's almost finished but I didn't take a picture tonight)

I love it when I can use small bits in the pattern :

like the nose and the eye.

*

In the garden colours have changed from white and yellow

to blue and a bit of purple

*

(and tomorrow another "Alpaca" knitting day ...

back to the socks then)

a special day

17 - 3 - 17

For quite some time now

March 17

is a special day for us :

on this date, on a Sunday,

our dear daughter was born !

(we always look at the daffodils :

are they in bloom, just as they were at that day ?)

Such a sweet tiny thing she was

(and sweet she still is, now proud mother of three !)

(4 weeks, on my birthday)

(never can resist daffodils in the shop ...) 

Though the real birthday party

will be next Sunday,

I could give her my present this afternoon.

I worked on it for a long time before I was satisfied

(and had to hide it every time,

so the surprise wouldn't be spoiled)

Portrait number three

So now all three kids will be next to each other.

Now I have time to continue the flower drawings I made earlier.

*

I still had time to do the knitting

(of course, she could see that

and didn't need to be hidden ...)

One is halfway the foot

and the on other I can start with the special "Strong" heel ...

I'll take them tomorrow when we go to the Rotterdam St'nB.

It will most probably be raining ...

but, we're going anyway :

we plan to go to the Farmer's market too.

Spring is in the air ...

Today it definitely was :

spring was in the air.

(though there wasn't that much sunshine)

Our private bulb field !

These delicate crocuses fall over with a bit of rain or wind

but today they stood proud !

Sad to admit, but the snowdrops are already over.

Every late winter I long for them

and always too soon they are gone

So I picked a few

and made some drawings.

This is just a start :

I will work on them with water colour

and other techniques to keep them 

for a much longer time !

A new baby was born in my nephew's family

so I made my usual present

for that occasion

Welcome Fie !

There was more knitting these last two weeks :

the indigo blue shawl I made was a success

so I started another one

with homespun yarn daughter gave me

combined again with some fluffy

Rowan Kid Silk Haze Stripe.

(and while it was Stitch'nBitch-day today

I took it with me to Rotterdam)

Tadaaaah

(though it was a day late

it still was included in the good cause KAL donation !)

In my search for new knitting projects on Ravelry

I found something interesting.

Though I don't have the pattern for this Norwegian jacket (yet)

I had to give it a go

(on some smaller scale : mittens)

I frogged it already three times

and even now the size is too big ...

(must do some more tests)

And finally I received the (very) last felted piece

of the felting-exchange

(with one extra for the delay, ha, ha)

We hope to set a date for a meeting 

of all the felting-exchange members this summer.

It will be fun to see each other

ánd to see all the work.