Could've Guessed...

Big (...) surprise ... And I swear, I didn't even search for the right answers, I answered as close to the truth as possible. The very pig I got named after as a kid, and later on imitated quite well just to be a step ahead. How ironic... Picture me swinging my long blonde hair back and squeeling: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAjáH! I truly ám Miss Piggy, ánd proud of it!! You Are Miss Piggy

A total princess and diva, you're totally in charge - even if people don't know it.You want to be loved, adored, and worshiped. And you won't settle for anything less.You're going to be a total star, and you won't let any of the "little people" get in your way.Just remember, piggy, never eat more than you can lift!

The Muppet Personality Test

Little Red ...

The words Little Red immediately bring other words to mind like; corvette or riding hood. But in this case it's all about the little red....

bags...

It all started about a month ago when Knitting Ajour asked the Stitch 'n Bitch group if anyone was interested in going to an event to knit for money. The event was build around the start of a cultural discount card for the city of Delft. (You know... from the nice blue Delft ware china). Eyes rolled and mouth corners twisted, knitting... for money...? In-te-res-ting!

our 'set' in pretty red, all in style like the card and the bags.

Some of the bags in the background

Calenders were checked a few took the bate and this Saturday three of us hopped on the train to Delft. That just sounds too easy doesn't it? Quick money for a couple of hours of live knitting. Just like that. Well it's not the whole story.
The three weeks right after we agreed to do this 'gig' we knitted our pants off. We had homework you see. To knit 100 (!) little red bags. We agreed on 35 each. The first week Knitting Ajour was already way ahead and Adeline was catching up quickly. And me? I was still feeling like a warm wet dishcloth and with no energy at all managed to make just about 4. The next week it got worse. And while I tried my best I just couldn't do it. Of course when we met at the last S'nB it all got a little more clear. I was knitting on 5mm needles and the others were a whole lot smarter and started knitting with double threads on 8mm needles and even (don't tell anyone...) crocheting the odd one. After I picked that bright idea up, it all took up speed and I managed to knit 4 in one evening. The evening before the event...

Pretty Delft blue blanket in the making, embroidery by Storm op Zolder

It was all too little too late, I finished 16, Ajour did more than 50 and Adeline did 40 something. I'm still getting over the shame...

Adeline knitting a fair isle peace of Delft ware for the blanket

And that wasn't all. We were also supposed to knit some blue squares for a Delft blue blanket to drape on the sofa where we were going to be knitting. I managed 1...

Lovely Ajour, knitting like there's no tomorrow while people wait in line to buy the cards

All in all it was a fun day though. We handed out the small red bags to anyone who bought the card. They were supposed to be card holders, did I mention that? By the end of the day they were all gone... just before the doors closed. 100 little red bags knitted with blood, sweat and yes, maybe a tear or two, now in the hands of 100 people in Delft. Maybe loved and used until threadbare, maybe tossed away in a corner, all with different lives ahead.
*Lump in throat*

we had our own knit ware for sale too. Ajour with her own Ballee brand. Check out her site!

The Tiger Re-appears

I'm still here...!

I've been struck by a serious cold and haven't felt up to a lot of things. The energy had just gone and left for a vacation or something.

The fact that the Tiger Sock Diaries was a complete failure didn't help my mood either.

Turns out that when you're feeling like a warm wet towel but are determent not to let it ruin your film festival, it still just leaves 15 minutes before each film to knit. Which 'doesn't fill up the dike much' (litteraly translated from the Dutch saying: Dat zet geen zoden aan de dijk.) which means: it doesn't help much...

this is what I knit during the 14 day festival....

this is my only knitting spot in between two films where the break was long enough to even start knitting...

In the off-time that I had some energy left, I choose to use it for knitting small red squares, to turn into small bags and the odd blue one. It's for a very interesting project in Delft. Knitting Ajour was asked if she could get some of the knitters in her S'nB group to knit in public at the presentation of a new cultural and local discount card for the city of Delft. The bags are card holders. Guess who thought that might be fun?

I still do... but I have to knit twentysomething little red bags before saturday and I'm really not believing in myself when it comes to this particular thing.

So just to let you know I'm still here, this is what happened in my knitting world recently. I'm sure I'll have a lot to talk about after the knitting in public on a knitted Delft Blue blanket.... ;-)