Too Many Projects, Not Enough Time
Astrid Mini Dress – Pt. 2 In the last post, we left off with some construction decisions to be taken. After much pondering, googling, and scribbling, here’s the verdict: Now, this will require a lot of winging it. Do I have the skills to pull it off? Likely not, what I do have is an…
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t quick. I’ve been wanting to sew myself a skirt for a while, but since parking the summer dress, I haven’t done any sewing. Partially because I’ve been knitting a lot, partially because sewing needs a longer set up: cut the pattern, cut the fabric, sew, rip some seams, sew a bit…
This was one of the first projects I started this year, and my most recent finish. As usual I got distracted, but also as the “warmer” season came, I lost a bit of motivation, but I managed to finish it in time for the “colder” season. All in quotes because weather has been… odd. Let’s…
I’m a bit behind with my Knitfluenced blogging as my blogging focus was to get my new blog online, so I have a whopping 2 FOs… Let’s talk about my only summer knit, the Kuutar top by Sari Nordlund. which even went international with trips to Las Vegas and Prague. I don’t have pictures to…
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…
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…
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…
As my life was taken over by the marathon training, I parked most things on the back burner of my brain. Even a trip to Tenerife. So I found myself sewing a last minute bikini (which I had been planning almost for as long as this trip was planned). Now I wish I could say…