Introducing Polly

Hello, My name is Polly. 

I enjoy sitting around the house, looking at the people around me.  I'm rather quiet, but I have a very soft character.  How do you like my dress ?  My matching shoes are very comfortable too.  Perhaps I will go shopping for a new dress in another colour soon.  And I need some underwear... I have a twin sister who is a model.  Her pictures are in a knitting book.

I love flowers !

More knitting stuff...

The little book from Libelle with its many patterns has inspired me !  I have knitted the teddybear (you saw in an earlier post) and now I have knitted this....

What will this become ?     Hazve a little patience with me.  I will post it soon....

spring is in the air

I have seen the sun !  I have felt her warmth (from behind a glass window because there is still a cold wind) - but I can tell : there is definately some spring in the air.  So I have made some new stuff, with the new season in my mind. 

At breakfast we like a boiled egg.  But the eggs need a little jacket filled with soft fiberfill to keep them warm.  And to avoid any mistakes, I personalised them with some embroidery.  This is what I made :

embroidered with a cup of coffee and an egg

embroidered with a coffeepot and a coffeecup

A lovely afternoon at Kortrijk Expo

It was sunny and warm in the car when my sister and I drove to Kortrijk.  Finally a bit of sunlight and we decided to spend the afternoon INSIDE a big building....  but  filled with all sorts of crafts, we couldn't be happier.
We walked around in amazement : such a choice, so many ideas...  We visited a shop with patchwork, and bought some nice yellowish fabric with Easter in mind...   then beads and pearls and stuff to make necklaces and earrings.  Then we joined in a knit-marathon  : in 3 minutes we had to knit as many stiches as we could.  I was pleased with my result : 165 stiches.   But I was beaten by 2 stiches by my sister :  she had 167 stiches. There will have to be a revenge...
We bought books with patterns, and a leaflet to make Tilda dolls.  A set of fimo clay  with instuctions how to make flowers.   Unfortunately and very stupid : I forgot to bring my camera....   So, no pictures of us at the exposition  I'm sorry.  But this is what I got :

a passion for knitting, with lovely projects

gorgeous hats by a  Dutch designer

workshop box 'how to make flowers in fimo'

something very weird called kumihimo...

the new Tilda book...with instructions in Dutch !

pictures of the workshop have arrived !

Here are the photo's of the workshop I gave in a school in Oostende.  The students had 2 days of 'arts and crafts', and knitting was one of the options.  That's how it looked like.  Many thanks to Zaur for taking these pictures !

the school in one of Oostende's nicest buildings

Knitting techniques explained to the young

concentrating on the needles, stich by stich the work grows

We are trying to invent a new technique !

Explaining that the shawl this girl bought is a knitted one

the boy on the right used 2 colours : black and red and got it right !

The knitting created a 'zen'-like atmosphere...

Where have the stiches gone ?

smells like teen spirit...

...the great fashion designers are men...

Many students refer to their gandmothers who were knitters

Their teacher joined in, remembering the skill of knitting

hobbybeurs in Kortrijk

Well, I have been jealous of my Dutch blogster friends who keep mentionning big fairs where they can go to and buy all kind of nice stuff like fabrics and wool and patterns and magazines and who meet eachother for a cup of coffee !  I had never heard of such a fair in Belgium.
But the other day, I saw a small leaflet that caught my eye :   there is going to be a fair in Belgium, and in Kortrijk of all places !  That is only a 1 hour drive from my town. 

So ladies, this weekend I am going to enjoy myself a great deal. First  I am going to pick up my sister and friday afternoon we are going to shop till we drop ...  


I will keep you informed about the stuff I am going to drag back to my den....  Oooo  I can't wait  .... you know the feeling of high expectations ? The prospect of buying something really nice ?  Yep, that's me right now.

A friend in Denmark

I follow a few blogs of people who share my crafting intrests.  One of them is Halina.  Perhaps you have read some of her comments here.  She lives in Denmark, and she makes wonderful dolls and juwels and paintings.  One of her many talents is her imagination : her creations all have a personality and live a life of their own.  Each time she comes up with stories and pictures that read like a book.
Now she has a give away.

She won't tell, it's a surprise.  But here 's a link to her blog.  Check out for yourselves !

http://trolles-verden.blogspot.com/