Too Many Projects, Not Enough Time
Astrid Mini Dress – Pt. 1 I’ve never been a cinema buff, but for the last several years, I have had a cinema card, and to get my money’s worth, I try to watch at least two movies a month. This month, one of the selected movies was Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel [cit.] To…
A few months ago I decided I was going to “close” my Etsy shop, and I let the listings expire. The last one expired on July 24th, so now I’m gonna write a wrap up post on my experience with Etsy and why I decided to move all my listings on Ko-Fi. This is not…
Not even my Japanese planner helped me in keeping a regular schedule for my blogging: having being struck by a case of second sleeve syndrome, this belated post in the series is going to be a bit different. I was planning to write about the Salty Days Sweater by Kutovakika, but alas it’s yet to…
Next Knitfluenced project is my first finished sweater ever (for me) and also my first KAL: Azucena by EweKnit Toronto. After buying a small quantity of merino for gloves, I felt comfortable enough to get a sweater quantity of it. Surprisingly I didn’t get black, as I noticed while knitting another sweater that the texture…
Me wanting to absolutely try merino yarn has been the result of binge watching knitting podcast, so I bought 3 skeins in This Is Knit, a lovely yarn shop in Dublin. But what to make with it? I knitted plenty of fingerless gloves, sometimes even a full pair. But never a pair with fingers, so…
Following a recent post in which I confessed how I was sucked in the world of yarnfluencers, I decided to start a series of posts where I write about a finished project that was in some way inspired by meandering in the online crafting community. The first project I’m writing about is not strictly a…
It might have been mentioned several times in many posts on this blog, but I have been knitting since I was about 6 years old: I remember my mom getting me a set for kids to learn knitting with plastic needles. Every woman in my family knitted: my mom and my grandma made me cute…
I started 2023 with some major existential crisis. In January, following the umpteenth layoff in tech, I set up an cross stitch pattern shop in an attempt to get an alternative source of income, which as of now has yield a total revenue of zero (or less), but I sold 5 patterns and I’m very…
I’m back with a little update on my excruciatingly slow house glow-up: my bedroom. It did take two months to finish something that could have been done in a weekend, but I think the new color really suits Lucy. I didn’t really think to take a proper before picture, but I can tell you the…
I have a series of small cross stitches for a couple of patterns I created. Problem is I made them on scrap Aida, so there’s no extra fabric to frame them, and I have been looking for ways to use them as they are cute. First tiny project was a pin cushion: I used all…