Pink and Barbara

Baskets...baskets...baskets....

Some of you have already seen my new quilt I am working on. I was working on it in the booth at Velthoven in between the waves of customers. I am so addicted! I am making the baskets in my scraps, so they will probably be pink and blue..*s*

The baskets are from the book When the cold wind blows by Blackbird Designs. I have seen a lot of other people who are making them as well. I have started a webring you can join if you are making the baskets as well. Here you can read about it.

I will try to make a block every other day. I don't know how big I am making the quilt I think until I fall out of love with it...which will take a while...

Maybe you will join me in making these and the ring as well!

Testing one, two, three

I fell in love with this pattern...The fountain pen shawl from Interweave knits

So I bought the magazine:

Some wonderful yarn:

And then...nothing...it wasn't pretty at all...so I redid it in thicker needles, smaller needles, other yarn and so on...

So after 3 days of trying all I got is this....

Such a lovely plan....but sorry to say...it isn't working... So time for a new project....

What I bought in Holland

Something I haven't showed you is what I bought for myself when I was in Holland. I bought some fabrics from Quilt-it&Dotty and from Petra Prins

I am hoping this will become one of my new quilts will also be on my class program for this Autumn

Isn't it lovely!?

Lace Class

Last Saturday I and my knitting group went Stockholm and took a class at Maria's Garn. We had so much fun. You can see more pictures here. 

We learned about knitting the edging onto shawls.  This is what I made. It isn't finished jet..it was just a test piece:

I have this amazing lace book but couldn't work out how to make the borders onto the shawls so never made one from the book. But now I feel confident about starting one...who knows I might do it soon since my other lace project is turning out to be a disasters, but more about that another time!

This is what I bought. Some brown yarn for making a cardigan again and some laceweight yarn. I think this will be the Laminaria shawl

The new garden

I just had my first thing to eat out of the garden:

I have been working on my garden. I have been planting things that have been pregrown inside put in a rose arch and rosebushes that will hopefully climb onto it. 

In the box in the front on the left I have herbs and on the right I have flowers but you can't see them jet. In the box behind these boxes on the left I have all kind of leaves likes salads, spinach and such. On the right sides I have carrots, beets, radish and those kind off vegetables. All the way at the back I have tomato's, cucumber, corn, beans and squash.

Here are some pictures:

The Tangled yoke cardigan

My tangled Yoke cardigan was finished Yesterday I am so happy with it. Here are the pictures. More information about the yarn and such you can find in the older posts:

A Shawl

When I was in Holland I started working on a shawl for my friend Sasha who turned 30 last month.

It was a lot of fun to knit. It is my own design and I sent it off to her before I went home. It was made out off black Silkebloom yarn and knitted on needles 6,5 mm.

The Fair

I had so much fun the 4 days at the fair. It was so much fun to meet my customers and hear their responses. The fair location and the quilts were wonderful! I would like to thank everybody who stopped by our booth. Here are some photo's of the fair.

My book:

 

I have been working on a new mini-quilt while I am here. I will post a picture soon!

Enjoy!