Recent Finishes

These are some things that I finished recently:

• In December 1983 my aunt Els sent us (my mother, my 2 sisters, and me) a Christmas card with a small cross-stitch image on it. Now, 31 years later, I stitched the pattern up for each of us  as a Christmas present. My aunt is no longer with us, but we're sure that she would have been so pleased.
• I finished reading the beautiful  'Alice in wonderland & Alice in spiegelland' book that I recently bought at boekhandel Stevens and that was signed by illustrator Floor Rieder herself during a book signing session there.
• And finally I finished this pair of mittens (knitted out of blue Cascade 220 yarn) that my youngest daughter had asked for.

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China Light Utrecht

Last Tuesday after work, I visited the China Light Festival Utrecht in the Utrecht Botanical Garden. Even though it was quite crowded - I had not expected there to be this many visitors - it was still possible to take a good look at all the beautiful objects. I really enjoyed it.

Cardigan of Doom (and Summer Bag)

Unfortunately, the cardigan that I've been knitting on turned out to be a real Cardigan of Doom. I’ve been working on it for quite some time, mainly because it needed so much frogging. Reasons for this were:

• there turned out to be a big color difference between the Strange Harvest skeins, so I had to find out the best way to deal with that. The flash makes it looks a little worse than it does in real life, but still…
• I found out that I didn’t have enough yarn to complete the cardigan, so I had to order more and re-knit the sleeves. Even now I’ve only got a very little bit of yarn left.

I must say though that the front looks very nice now though, and I love the buttons.

Oh well...

I finished the crocheted bag some time ago, but I kept forgettting to take pictures of it. 

The other thing I've been working on is a really nice cross-stitch project, but I'll show that later.

Some shopping but not much else

Last month I visited both the Handwerkbeurs in Rijswijk and the Brei- en Haakdagen in Zwolle, and of course I did a nice bit of shopping there :-)

I didn't get a lot done lately - craftwise -I guess I've been busy doing other things. 
One thing I did do was to finally put a frame (bought at Xenos) around the cross stitch labrador head that I made earlier this year, so that's all done now.

Utrecht

Today I visited ‘Mode,de musical’ an exhibition curated by Piet Paris, in the CentraalMuseum in Utrecht. The Klare Lijn Festival organized bythe Hergé Genootschap took place just around the corner.

Fall

It was so nice to be outside today, on this unusually warm 1st day of November.