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Bliss!
After receiving a free wheel from a mom at school, I found Gloria in a thrift shop superstore last week. She's a Wernekinck Gouda, I've heard from reliable sources. The only thing wrong with her was a...
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Assembly time!
After an afternoon of running up and down the street, to see whether the neighbour where my Bliss had been delivered (just when I went to school to pick the kids up - go figure) was home, I finally got...
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Bliss on tour
Bliss went with us on tour last Sunday. With 4 wheels in the car and a roller girl in tow, I set off for Westerlee, for the Alpaca Show. And even though we knew we were heading for an alpaca farm, the...
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Where it gets yellow....
It started a few months ago, with the sudden desire and unstoppable urge to knit something yellow. I blame it on the prolonged winter, cold, nasty weather and definite absence of warmth outside. And...
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Tour de Fleece 2013 - we've started!
Yes! The first two stages have been spun up... There will be some hardcore spinning going on in Casa Peeriewinkle!!
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And into Autumn....
I blinked a few times, flew to Ireland and back, had the odd adventure en route and there you have it: wind, rain, falling leaves... We're slowly slipping into Autumn. Time for hot chocolate, soup and...
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Spreading the love
A while ago, I joined a club. They members had one thing in common: a love for turning fibre into yarn. All the people who are members of that club (almost 500 at the moment) know: once you start, you...
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Spindling in a church
Not your everyday location for a yarny event... If you don't take all the 'long yarns' into account that may have rolled off the pulpit here in years gone by... After holding the 'Brei- &...
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Return of the garter stitch - Ribbelssssss
Nearly everyone starts with this stitch, it's the first one in any stitch dictionary and it's a stitch that forms the basis of many intricate Shetland pattern: the garter stitch.Bijna iedereen begint...
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Going straight - Recht zo die gaat
It's been a few months now, since I translated a really cool craft book into English: Visserstruien by Stella Ruhe. A book filled to the brim with historical information and patterns of Dutch ganseys,...
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Recap or restart? - Terugblikken of vooruitkijken?
The last few months have been hectic. The ease of use of Facebook and Twitter almost made me forget there was something called a blog, so both the craft and family blog were grossly neglected. I could...
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Spindle tripping - Toch tollen op vakantie
Of course, I just had to stash the spindle into my craft bag... Guinness Froth is coming along nicely. I finished the back, front side panels and am working on the first sleeve. Knitting short rows for...
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Birth of a cardigan - De geboorte van een vest
This Summer has been mostly spent working on 'Pumpkin Ale' by Ysolda Teague, or 'Guinness Froth', as the cardi was soon re-baptized. It has been quite a project! From sorting the yarn, to washing and...
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Six - oh wait, seven months later...
Life sometimes takes over. And because of all that living we did, the blogging moved into the background a bit. A lot! Since the last post, we had the National Spinning Weekend in October, several cool...
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More visible mending
The fan-dom of visible mending continues... There's always stuff to mend here, often more than once. Whether it's trousers with knees scraped for the fifth time, socks that need a hole filled, again,...
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Meeting the likeminded folk - Vergaderen Plus
Whenever I tell people that one of my hobbies is spinning, I often have to clarify that this does NOT involve a gym, or a bike. Last weekend, no explanation and clarification was necessary, because we...
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New needles and a pink shawl - Nieuwe naalden en een roze shawl
The shawl came off the needles a while ago, but I promised I'd blog about it - also because I used some needles I testdrove for my lovely LYS at Wereldwol. She had ordered a bunch of bamboo needles...
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A cowl with a twist - Een cowl met een twist
I have never been a fan of cowls, I never saw the point really. Why knit a cowl, with a set circumference when you can knit a long shawl or scarf, which you can wrap around your neck as loose or tight...
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Tour de Fleece in pictures...
And again, time flies by.... In the meantime, I've started vlogging - more about that later - been on holiday and participated in the Tour de Fleece. As pictures say more than a thousand words, here's...
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Where the Peeriewinkle goes a-dyeing
Who knew that dyeing was so much fun? I never really took the time to do dyeing, because hey, I know people who can do it so much better than me! And with the natural dyed yarns I saw, most of them...
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Back on the blogging horse!!!
I was SHOCKED when I saw the date of my last post. Really??? Three-and-a-half years??? Not that I haven't done any crafting, as I've knit, crocheted, spun and sewed lots, but when you combine a move to...
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The finished hap
While eating lunch, consisting of toast with stinky cheese and with the doors to the living room closed (let's just say the kids are less enamoured with livarot cheese than I am), time for an update on...
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Count-down to Sock Madness
While I am watching the Australian Grand Prix on Replay, other knitters are eyeing the Sock Madness Countdown Clock and frantically knitting on their qualifier socks... Today is the final day to either...
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Round 4!
And then, before you know it, you have knit 3 rounds of socks, lol... Time has just taken me along for a walk and before I knew it, it was May. In a nutshell: Round 1: Demogorgon's Lair by Dots...
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Sock Madness Finalist
At the moment, I'm finishing off some translation jobs, doing some admin while watching some women's football, relaxing my fingers - insofar as that is possible while typing - because...
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