Hi all! Well, it’s been a difficult start of the year has it not? Between the storming of the Capitol by fascists and the government in my own country (rightly) falling as the culmination of years long scandal in the tax department- all the while […]
Hi makers, how are we all? Incredibly, we made it through November and are now in the last month of the year! November was such a wild and overwhelming month to be online with the US elections and their aftermath, and the following bombardment of […]
Allow me to present you: the first garment I’ve ever sewn for anyone else! Locally, it’s also known as “the project that shouldn’t have taken me such a long ass time to make but did anyway”! Seriously, advancing from cutting out to stitched-up, finished wearable […]
I want to show you all the Bo Top I made a bit ago! This is my first foray into woven tops and it was one of the things I made during my Covid-19 lockdown sewing burst. I’ve been meaning to make a woven top […]
Hello world! What can I say? I enjoy my master courses tremendously, but they do take some work. Lets show you the last thing I finished before mid terms: my Afmaeli sweater. After I finished my Jenny at the Fair I was a bit lost as […]
Well hello there first post of February! I’m sure I’ve already seen this on other blogs lots since the start of the new year, but can you believe how fast 2016 is flying by? My birthday is in less than a month, ack! I have […]
Isn’t it funny how I always think that during any given exam period I will have time to pop in here for a blog post and rarely do? I need to work on my time management a bit. Last week I wrapped up my midterms. […]
It took me a bit longer to get back to the blog than I anticipated. The main reason is that I went to France for a wee road trip, which I just got back from. France was the holiday destination of my childhood, but this […]
The Foxglove is a flower I associate with my childhood. I grew up, knowing it as ‘Vingerhoedskruid’, the Dutch word for Foxglove. ‘Vingerhoed’ is Dutch for thimble, which is a very apt name I think. I associate the flower with home, bumblebees and with my […]
If you’ve ever had a course in creative writing, you’ve probably heard of the adage “Show, don’t tell”. This time, however, I simply have to tell a little story before I can show you my new sweater… In the first decade of the 11th […]
