One day I was looking through some craft websites and saw these friendship bracelets. Suddenly I was 12 years old again and itching to make some. I thought back to the day when I was a kid and making bracelets with gimp was all the rage, man I loved that stuff. I decided to start [...]
This morning I went off to the city center to meet up with the ladies from the Rotterdam Stitch’n’Bitch group. I had gotten together with them on Tuesday evening as well and decided to go see who is there on Saturday mornings. It was busier today, with 10-12 people as opposed to the four of [...]
After finishing my baby bobble blanket I felt a little lost. I had gotten so used to plunking down in my chair and picking up the blanket to work on that when it was finished and I had nothing to do, I got grumpy. I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to work on next [...]
Today I completed my first craft project of 2010. It’s a Baby Bobble Afghan I started a while back from a pattern by Bernat. Now I just have to get it packed up and sent off… I’m a little sad in a way, I quite enjoyed working on this and I learned quite a bit as [...]
You know how they say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure? I’ve been learning the validity of that statement ever since a second hand shop moved in across the road from our house. Every so often I pop in there to see what’s new or if anything catches my eye and more often [...]
For the last few days I’ve been keeping myself busy but working on a crochet project I started a while back. It’s only the second time I’ve crocheted something but I’m quite enjoying working on this pattern. The first time was when I made a baby blanket for Faela, my friend’s adorable baby girl who [...]
Yesterday Michelle over at Laundromat gave me this best blogger award. YAY, I FEEL LOVED!! I must say I was surprised and totally stoked to get it, as the whole little blog awards thing always seem to pass me by. Over the past few weeks there’s been one going through all the expats here like [...]
Money is tight in our household this year, after a big bad surprise from the belastingdienst (tax office) that I never got into here on my blog. I don’t plan to, but basically they screwed up and now we owe them over 2000 euro. So we agreed that Valentine’s Day wasn’t going to be an [...]
I am now about to begin the 4th block of gail pan’s Christmas Wish BOM, and I’m so enjoying making them. The three above are the ones I’ve completed up till now, and the one below is my most recent. I didn’t think I’d enjoy embroidery as much as cross stitching but now I [...]
I’ve been wanting to learn to do embroidery for a while and when I saw the Christmas Wish BOM over at gail pan designs I thought it was the perfect opportunity to teach myself. So after a few online tutorials and YouTube videos I felt confident enough to give it a go. It came out [...]
One thing that has been bothering me about my camera since I got it, is the camera strap around my neck. The nylon material it’s made with scratches the back of my neck, and can get quite uncomfortable. Also, one thing I noticed when I was out with my camera yesterday, because it’s black it [...]
Today my mother sent me photos of the tea quilt I made her after she got it home and put it up. It’s kind of exciting for me because this is the first quilt I’ve ever made for someone as a gift that is on display somewhere. She hung it in her dining room, which [...]
No, unlike some places in Canada at the moment, it is not snowing in the Netherlands! As much as I love the snow, I’m glad… because I’m so not ready for it yet! I am totally ready to do some Christmas crafting though! A few months ago I ordered this cross stitch kit from sewandso.co.uk [...]
A few months ago I started working on a secret project. My parents were coming over and I knew my mother would be celebrating her birthday while they were here. I wanted to make something special for her. So I got to work on a quilt I had been wanting to make that I thought [...]
Well I’ve been working on the quilt sampler cross stitch I mentioned a little while ago and I think it’s coming along pretty well. The pattern called for it to be stitched across 2 stitches but I couldn’t be arsed, I just did it normally. It’s still coming out nicely anyway. I have to admit, [...]
Well, not me personally… but my mother’s cross stitch has! err.. or will be. There’s a pattern I’ve wanted to do for a long time called Aunt Verdi’s Porch by Paula Vaughan. I had mentioned it to my mother a few times and when I was home in Canada in October she showed me that [...]
I started this cross stitch years ago when I first came to NL. It landed in a drawer and came out once or twice but I never got around to finishing it until recently. It’s pretty manky and crumbled from 8 years of being worked on and then stuffed away but I’m hoping that once [...]
Fearless Fourteen
by Janet Evanovich
