Above is a mosaic of the 16 finished items from 2009. It seems a fitting post to write on the 31st of December 2009. The year seemed to fly by and I’m happy to have all of this work to show. I think it’s definitely a record for me - I’ve never finished so much [...]
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Finally I can show you my Christmas FOs! Above is Ishbel the Third, this one for Mom. It was mailed off today after the photo shoot in the back yard yesterday. You can see that we are still getting snow around here! I love how this little shawl came out. The yarn is so light [...] This afternoon we went to the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. Neither of us had been there before, which is a damn shame since we live here in this town. It’s one of those things. When you live somewhere you never go to the places you should. This trip was organized by the librarian twitterers around [...] On Christmas Eve we went to P&K’s house, along with 11 others, for dinner. I took a chocolate fruitcake. Below is the recipe, which comes directly from this book: Wicked Sweet Indulgences (”Australian Women’s Weekly” Home Library). I actually bought the book from Waterstone’s in Amsterdam several years ago. It’s FULL of amazing desserts, [...] This morning we all woke up to see snow covering the ground. White Christmas? When was the last time there was a white Christmas in the Netherlands? I don’t know, but quite a few years anyway. Above you see the little bear in the window, welcoming the snow and any visitors who might come by [...] We woke up this morning to SNOW! Well, to be honest, I was downstairs staring at my computer screen and DB had to come down and ask me “Have you looked outside?”. It was only then that I saw all this white stuff everywhere. We couldn’t let that go by without doing something about it. [...] The above is a photo of Ishbel III in progress. This is a closeup of the lace section. The stitch pattern gets a bit lost in all the colors, but probably blocking will help that a little bit. And if not, oh well! It’s still really pretty. I’m about half way finished with the lace [...] Last weekend we were at EuroDisney, just outside of Paris. DB’s parents wanted to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary with the whole family so they decided to treat us all to 4 days at Disney. Hmmm. It would not have been my first choice, but what the heck! We went by train so at the [...] My mom sent us a gift certificate from Amazon for Christmas. Look what I bought with it! The box arrived today and I’m pretty excited to dig into them. Today was, once again, the Sinterklaas celebration for the family. We all gather at the home of an aunt and uncle (there must be 50 of us) and wait for the Sint to come visit. (As a knitting aside, see the girl [...] |
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