Treasuries

Have you heard of Etsy?! If you haven't I'm about to give you the key to a wonderful new world! Etsy is an online marketplace for home made and vintage items and supplies of/for all different kinds of 'makers'.

Although Etsy in general has a high level of home made stuff, the scale mostly tips over to the 'design side', sometimes there are funny, awkward or downright ugly things put up for sale. There's a site that collects these items called Regretsy. Sooo funny!

Some of the sellers at Etsy make so called treasuries, collections of Etsy items in one theme. My Joan of Arc pattern has been 'treasured' a couple of times. I feel very flattered and Joan looks great in the good company of other designs.

I have an Etsy shop myself, but at the moment it's kind off empty, I'm working on getting more patterns up there so they're available to a wider audience. Want to make a treasury yourself, it's addicting! Go here.

Yarn Therapy

Today I'm a little sad. It's a specific sad, a peculiar feeling I remember having when I was about 8 or so. I don't really remember exactly, I was a child and I found out that things pass, things change, people go away, and it stays that way, they don't come back.

It's the consuming feeling that I don't get to 'make' everything the way I want to. I simply have to deal with it.

I'm sad because things pass. It's been a long time since I had this feeling.

But there's one thing I can make into what I want (most of the time):

YARN! I'm off... knitting!

Nothingness & Big Bold Coton

This might be the worst title so far...

Anyhoo...

This sunday I spent with Dianne B. and some of my S 'n B friends at a wool & more market (Markt van Wol Enzo). We drove from the center of the city to the middle of nowhere, got our knitting out, had our coffees, spent some money on one or more drugs of choise (yarn/ strawberries/ organic food), bathe in the sunlight and hopped on back to the city. It was a very friendly gathering and a perfect day in the sun.


Today I finished a 'Joan of Arc' in bulky coton. The client is allergic to wool and so I altered the pattern and knit it with a double strand of Phildar Coton 7 in color 'denim'. It looks fab and I'm very pleased.
Please note that I do not only sell the pattern for this big and bulky cowl, but also Ready-to-Wear in black, sand, hot pink, grey, off-white, reddish brown and bright red. I've also got enough material for two more coton/denim ones. I'll be selling them in my Etsy store next season (starting september 2010). Please mail me if you're interested.