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!

My cuddly Bluebear

When my mother was visiting she helped me interpret a Japanese pattern so that I, with my limited experience in sewing,…

Crafts/Fabric & Sewing

Green Foliage and other finished projects

The weekend was great! I finished up a lot of projects that I have started but not taken to the end….

Crafts/Fabric & Sewing/Thrift & Recycle

Wintergreen

This yarn is 100 % machine washable soft acrylic, wonderful soft with a two tone effect wintergreen, 50 gram á 19…

Crafts

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