I've been away for a few months, busy making plans for a brighter future. In the mean time the knitting still goes on, and beside that a few tiny steps on the road of designing.

Less talk, more show:

Cardigan, for T of course. It came with a bigger wardrobe.

 
My first socks! For lots of you a typical "no brainer", but I am so very proud I can knit socks now!

Designing for the Verena contest: design by T (8 years old), choosing of yarn by T, knitting by T's mother. Didn't win a prize, but it was so much fun to work together!

 
My new and very nice way of crafting: just start knitting, and the design grows with the fabric. It feels very free to "just do something and see what it becomes". This dress for T fits her like a glove, and she looks like a model in it with a black shirt and black legging. The first dress in years she can approve!

 
A tunique for my sweet youngest sister. It comes with leg- and armwarmers, but these aren't finished yet (a sad story of sewing it together the wrong way, try to correct it, and a big hole in one legwarmer where it wasn't supposed to be). Normally I'm very cool with trying things over and over (and over) again, but this one brought out the worst in my top.

Yesterday I visited the craft fair in Rotterdam. Soon going to try to knit a barret (from the lovely book "Knitting Barrets" (Baretten breien) of designer Jolijn Copier). And for the first time try to crochet with Hoooked Zpagetti, just because the results are so beautiful.

See you 'round.