Category: Crafts

To craft means (to me) to make stuff by hand. I love trying new DIY ideas, recycling, painting, sewing, knitting, experimenting and mixing materials. Let’s craft!

Knitting lesson, a lesson of Love

Surfing around I found this great painting by Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875), called Knitting lesson. It illustrates quite well how I felt…

Crafts

New old stuff

One of my favorite things found in a flea market this Sunday is this adorable green runner with pink and mauve…

Crafts/Thrift & Recycle

Knitty Free Patterns for winter

I found Banff in the great online magazine Knitty where free patterns are the thing. Free knitting patterns are so great….

Crafts

Popcorn day and knitting class

Who is Elfriede Jelinek? I do not know! But maybe that is what’s so great about the Nobel Price in Litterature….

Crafts

To KIP on the WIP

I updated our Dear Photo Diary today and found this picture of me from last week when I made a pink…

Crafts

Partly a teddy bear

Eager to make a sweet teddy bear, after I (like I said earlier) found the homepage Made by Manne (which I…

Crafts

Aldrig slut på tråd

Swedish blog post about flea markets and how Spiderman runs out of thread…

Crafts/Swedish

Hello Knitty

Swedish post about my knitting bag with Hello Kitty applique.

Crafts/Fabric & Sewing/Swedish

My first finished Knitted Cardigan

My knitted cardigan in soft pink cotton yarn is all finished! Done! I have sewn together all the different parts, and…

Crafts

Crocheting my Very First Shawl

I biked to town to buy yarn. I have decided I do not want to be a craft collector, but a…

Crafts

Historien om den randiga halsduken

The history about the striped scarf for my brother. Blog post in Swedish.

Crafts/Swedish