Crafty Crafters

Last nights meeting was fun (as always!). Here are some pictures of the crafters getting crafty:


New member Afra brought along her sewing machine that she had bought on Marktplaats to get some advice on the tension and to help get the thing working (job done!).

Megan has only been knitting for 4 weeks but she's already buying yarn and knitting up to a good tension a nice blue scarf.


Donna working on a nice scarf in pink and blue stripes using a drop stitch pattern that she's 'mixing up' as she goes, freestyle scarfing!

Jose has some beautiful yarn that he bought in Scotland and is making a vertical stripped scarf and teaching himself the 'Intarsia' technique;

And Afra, once machine was seen to be working, picked up her needles and worked on her two-pin winter gloves for her boyfriend. Doubled yarn for extra Dutch winter warmth.

A gezellig evening as always, with biscuits, tea, bit of whisky as the night draws to a close.

Come join us!

2 new vintage patterns

Here are two new vintage patterns that I have bought to add to my collection. They are both from around 1940's - one is a fair isle sleeveless jumper and the other is a fun cowboy themed long sleeved jumpe! Which one to make first?

Men's lace scarf challenge

As you saw in my previous post I have finished a lace triangular scarf in a simple repeat pattern. This is for a friend's wife. But I love the look of lace and have got to wondering if there are lace scarf patterns for men out there. I searched through Ravelry and there are the regular wrap scarfs that are unisex but I'm talking about an open-work lace piece, something that is delicate, that could be worn by a man (namely me, as I have a really nice red 2ply lace yarn that I would like to use for myself).

So the challenge is to find a repeat pattern that could be made in to a rectangular scarf that would be considered "masculine" enough. I'm thinking at the moment of a 'drooping elm leaf' pattern or 'christmas trees' as shown in B. Walker's A Treasury of Knitting.

Let's see what happens...

Besides this idea I'm still working on Edgar. Having to adjust the arms to meet the tension of modern yarn, and the first sock is almost finished.

Keep knitting!!!

New Piece - Lace Shawl

Over the last couple of weeks I've been working on a triangular shawl project and here is the finished article. Knitted on UK9 (3.75mm) straight bamboo needles using Zitron Filigran Lace no.1 (which was from Schouten Handwerken, Hoorn):