cowl finished !

I love colours !

That's why this yarn called out to me

(though it's polyester)

On top of that it's shiny

and easy to knit.

 A friend on Ravelry (who I met in a yarn shop !)

made a lovely cowl / shawl of it,

and as soon as I bought my skein, I remembered that.

I asked her how many stitches she had

and started right away

Mitered knitting is easy

because you never have more stitches on your needle

than at the start of every new block.

And NO sewing blocks together :

every new block starts at the side (or two sides)

of an old one !

(if you're interested, you can find the pattern here)

It's amazing : the colours of the second row

just fit so nicely next to each other ...

If I had meant it to be like that up front,

I would probably NOT have succeeded doing so !

The yarn did it all by itself !

Very happy with it !

Because there is a special birthday tomorrow

I made a little card for a friend

Stitching on "lutradur" with a thick thread on the bobbin,

fabric and paper underneath ...

Done 

more knitting

Yesterday was another knitting day

because the "Alpaca-on-tour"

started this year on the second Saturday of the month,

all were present

(except for the one who is momentarily in Spain)

and two extra daughters !

(following their mothers' footsteps)

I took the extended owl family with me.

We admired our host's sphinx cat

(all wrinkles and no hair)

There were lots of homemade cookies, tea and coffee 

and a LOT of talking

about projects, yarn and patterns

(like usual at this kind of meetings)

One of our friends unloaded a bit of her superfluous stash

and all of us took some of her treasures home.

Thanks Ingrid !

Some hemp and linen for me

The rainbow coloured yarn will be a cowl

and is progressing nicely ...

starting small ...

This is my first post in the year 2016, so

Happy New Year !

(I think it's still allowed to say that

though the year isn't brand new anymore)

My creative year is starting small,

small knitting in fact.

A friend showed such a fun pattern on FB

that I promised myself I would knit some of these

little owls

Number one !

How small it is ???

This small    ;-)

And because it is quite simple to make

I started the next one right away

For the Dutch readers who want to try too

here is the pattern.

And while I was busy with my needles

Man was busy with his pencils

getting some good advice of our youngest grandchild.

My two friends who were doing some serious felting

just before christmas, finished their work today :

another fun day with talk, coffee, tea, lunch,

and a lot of elbow grease !

In the end we were very satisfied with the two

(very different) end results

( ... though it looks like not everyone agreed ...)

bits and pieces .....

At the very end of the year

there are always

those little bits and pieces 

that need to be said, shown, or finished ...

Here are some of mine.

Only tiny bits of this little felted heart

were shown, because it was a present to daughter's best friend

who had her 50th birthday yesterday.

Lots of family and friends were asked

to make a little heart,

and a whole bunch came and were placed

on a "wild" piece of wood,

making it into a wonderful birthday present !

*

Winter isn't really winter (yet ?)

but it is great fun to help granddad to prepare

the bird feeder in case the cold suddenly arrives !

*

Making selfies is a silly business !

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Two friends came for a felting workshop

just before christmas

A late start, too much talking and planning

made that they need to finish it all later

(uhhhm ... next year ...)

*

This :

was the perhaps most special (almost) full moon I saw this year

on the 24th of December,

(except the eclipse moon of course) 

There was this awesome ring around it !

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But there was also a  B I G  piece that we did :

today we used this second last day of the year 2015

for some serious window painting business !!!

This picture from the net was the start

Enlarged using a grid,

to almost 2 x 1 meter.

The start of the other choice of this class : a "minion"

Me starting with number two : "Rio"

But we weren't the only "idiots" working during the school holidays ...

(they are painting again the little house that was built in my classroom

some 19 years ago to make room for more possibilities to play

in the rather small classroom)

Minion in progress ...

Daughter and me started with "Blue"

and granddaughter ...

steps into the family's footsteps

;-)

Almost done !!!

HA !

I think this is a nice present for the teacher 

when she starts school again on Monday

!!! 

And to ALL my dear friends out there in the world

who visit here in blogland :

I wish you a

peaceful

happy

healthy

creative

and colourful

2016

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See you next year !