Happy New Year and welcome to January! I know that apart from the number nothing has changed since the ball dropped but I hope the year will be softer for all of us and that 2021 will be what you need it to be. Our […]
Category: DIY & Crafts
2020: Sewing, Balcony Garden and Outside Explorations
December greetings friends! I hope those of you who celebrate Christmas had a warm, meaningful, merry and safe holiday celebration and for the rest of you I hope you’ve had a few restful loving days. Ordinarily I would have taken the train and travelled south […]
Autumn on the Balcony, New Projects and Mending
Hey all. How is everyone holding up? In my patch of the world we are on our way back into a second Covid-19 lockdown, as restrictions have toughened significantly after numbers have sky rocketed. I’ll spare you the details of the incompetence of our government […]
Summer Days
Hi all, How is everyone doing? Personally, I haven’t been feeling great, with everything going on everywhere. I mean, 2020 is just the year that keeps on giving in absolutely every way isn’t it? I suppose it is more remarkable if you haven’t been affected […]
Natural Dyeing: Red Onion Skins on Istex
Hi all, First things first: Depending where you are reading this you’ll have already noticed this, but I decided to redo my website layout. Don’t worry, this is not going to be a seasonal thing or whatever. Ravelry’s launch of their new website a bit […]
Waking up With Bird Songs
Hey all. Summer has arrived in the year that is already a decade long. It’s the season of waking up with bird song through open windows. I thought I would come here and write a bit about what’s going on my end of the screen […]
A Springtime Balcony
Hey all, how are you holding up? One of the things that has given me great joy during this shittest of times is seeing the plants on my balcony growing in the new season. Spring season means it is basically changing every other day and […]
Checking in
Hey all, I wanted to see how you all are and tell you how I am and how I’ve been coping in these strange, strange times. (And I also wanted to give those of you who follow my blog via a blog reader the chance […]
Summer Things
We’re half way through summer and we’ve just had the warmest week on record in my neck of the woods. We smashed through multiple records, including the all time record on multiple days and if I read one more sensation piece about it that doesn’t […]
Double, Double Toil and Trouble
Hey there, As you may have seen on my instagram, I’ve been experimenting with a whole new branch of yarncraft: natural dyeing! I planned to experiment with natural dying since the beginning of summer, but you know how it goes, and well I only got […]