Helygen Celli

Spring cleaning my storage boxes,  I found several remnants of fibers. I planned to toss them in the garden so the birds could use them. Yet, I decided to do an exercise in spinning yarn with a good amount of twist. I noticed that in general I have low-twist-yarns. Nice and soft, yet not always [...]

Read the blog: Some remnants

Limit my # WIP; one of my resolutions for 2009 is at a critical level :-)
I have 5 projects on the needles; 3 pair of socks, a heel sampler and a silk summer camisole…. and just added another project to my queue. Kiila by Yarnissima! How can I resist a Yarnissima-pattern-of-the-month-may-KAL of the Sock Knitters [...]

Read the blog: Work in progress ….

Vier maanden oud is het meidje alweer!
Gisteren hebben we een nieuwe stap gezet als oppas opa & oma.  Tot nu toe pasten we bij Daisy thuis op, zodat ze lekker in haar vertrouwde omgeving zou zijn. Met temperaturen ruim boven de 20 graden is het op hun flat niet uit te houden. We hebben Daisy [...]

Read the blog: 4 maanden!

I recently discovered the “add to fave” button in Flickr….  I was just browsing and adding some things I liked, resulting in this composition – isn’t it nice?  The fave button works much better as bookmarking all those pages with nice pic’s.
I love looking at pics and making them myself too. It is a source [...]

Read the blog: Faves

This week was knitwise a very productive one …
Finished a cardi and a pair of socks for myself, which I still have to wash and block before taking pics.
And I knitted these four lovely little projects from scraps of hand dyed and handspun yarn in my stash. Each project took hardly 3 hours [...]

Read the blog: FO: 4 little projects

Just in time for the early cold hours in the springtime;
a handwoven scarf in green and blue for my hubbie and a scarf of handspun and hand dyed yarn for me
Project #2 of my lessons in weaving. Playing with green and blue, studying the effect of color in warp and weft, using different combinations of [...]

Read the blog: FO: Two scarfs