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Yarn bombing – We can do it

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Since a long time I am dreaming of leaving a footprint in London by yarn bombing something . But I didn’t know what, where, when or how. It is slightly overwhelming, I guess. Initially I thought of our nursery, kind of on the last day before we left for good. But they closed it so that would not be that impressive, would it.

If you don’t know what yarn bombing is, just look at Lorna and Jill’s website. They are two yarn bombing sisters and my super heros and do amazing stuff.

But then, a couple of months ago a friend of mine asked me if I was interested to be part of a yarn bombing community project. Of course I was.

Corner 9, a local charity which offers arts and crafts projects, has set up a workshop over 4 Saturdays where a lovely and pretty but slightly tired and forgetful tutor will help those who need it to knit up some rectangles which will then be sewn together by said tutor and hopefully some lovely helpers to wrap a warm and colourful coat, scarf or however you want to call it around a sad little dead tree:

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After 4 weeks of hard work there will be a little celebration in the garden where we can all admire the result of our collective work. I am really looking forward to it and I am hoping to see many people there (not only because I realised how little knitting time I have these days 🙂 )

So if you live in the area and want to be part of it, bring your family and your needles and get knitting! On two of the four sessions there will even be a creche provided, you will find all information on the Corner 9 website.

If you live far away, no need to book a flight to admire our work, I promise I will post a picture of the result 🙂

 

 

 

Welcome 2016

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I did it. My new year’s resolution really is winding new skeins into neat balls before starting to knit, see:

Before :

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After:

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In between :

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Actually even better: my new year’s resolution is to get my yarn wound neatly rather than to wind it up neatly ☺

Projects for the new year?

Finishing the fingerless gloves.

Knitting another pair of fingerless gloves using that beautiful pictured silk from DyeForYarn .

Sewing a bunch of baby hats as gifts.

The Big Bib Project

Yarn bombing a tree – a community project where I will be in charge of the knitting workshop. I will write a proper post when I am back in London

Finally sewing that coat – I bought the fabric almost exactly a year ago.

I guess that doesn’t sound much but considering my working pace lately that seems about right ☺

And obviously there are lots of ideas like winding up balls, using up scraps, not buying any new material unless it is really necessary  (😉), eating healthy,  doing lots of exercising,  being nice, always tidying up, writing witty posts, getting some sleep…

We will see how all those go.

For now I am wishing you all a very happy and healthy new year.

 

bye bye 2015…

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Who would have thought,  one more post in 2015! Certainly not me.

I hope you are able to look back happily.

It has been a very intense year, good and not so good things have happened, in my small world as much as in the big world.

Horrible terrorist attacks and refugee crisis but also amazing reaction by people standing up and working together to welcome and help others. A fight to save an excellent nursery in an area who would have needed it. A child starting proper school and loosing 6 teeth. But most importantly 3 babies joining the family! The extended family,  I only had one myself don’t worry.

And since this is a blog about knitting and sewing? I guess it has been a good year too. The fashion course, lots of bags, a couple of children’s clothes. Knitting was a bit less exciting unless you get excited about 196 knitting squares for 4 baby blankets. One of them lost in the mail (or worn by a kangaroo ). Sorry for not linking with the appropriate posts,  I am typing this on my phone – just browse through my past posts.

But the year ended with knitting:

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And a knitting related lesson, probably still not a learnt one though: you should always wind up the new skein of yarn into a neat ball before getting started

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Two helpers have been trying to sort this mess out – they gave up. But my niece went and wound her own skein of yarn up into a nice ball 😊

And now I still have 3 hours to think of a new years resolution … (trying to ignore the messy yarn picture)

Guten Rutsch for now and we’ll see each other next year ☺

Scrap Sunday: A little something

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See, I told you I was going to post before the new year and none of you believed it!

I have a little something to show you. I made it out of the content of one of the advent calendar bags:

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But lets have a closer look:

IMG_4373A piece of polyester strap material, a pretty woven ribbon, a key ring and a strange clip thingy. At first, I wasn’t sure what this random selection of small pieces was all about but then I realised: A key fob! That’s what I was supposed to make. Well, the key ring was a pretty strong clue 🙂

And the clever person I am I figured out all by myself how to do this. But as the person who has recently poured dry pasta into the bechamel sauce rather than into the pot with boiling water next to it, I  confirmed with wise old internet before getting started.

And voila , five minutes later I had a beautiful key fob and a perfect little Christmas present to be sent to a friend in Italy:

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I am not sure if it is a very practical size for a key fob. It is quite long. But I was immediately thinking of something my mum had mentioned during her last visit: It is apparently getting more and more difficult to have a good individual marker on your luggage. All suitcases traveling round and round the conveyor belt at the airport seem to have red ribbons. So this fob might work quite well, maybe with a bigger ring to slide it around the handle.

Or it could work well as a wrist strap for a clutch. I was actually already trying to find these clip thingies but I don’t know how to even call them. And surprisingly ebay doesn’t know them as clip thingies.

I guess whilst the new year is still faaaaar away, lets not go crazy postingwise and I will just take the opportunity now to wish you all a “good slide into the new year” (That’s what we say in German before the 1st of January) :)!