Holiday Inn

3th quilt, from a pattern by Jo Morton. (From the book "Jo's little favorites")
I'm really proud on this one. The pieces are very small.
I made a smaller outer border, to make it fit the wall in our living room.

Detail photo's:

In progress photo's:

New hobby!

I disovered quiltinq!

This was my first finished quilt:

For my second project I decided to do a "sampler":

Sketching again :)

These are some drawings for r/reddigetsdrawn, all in my toned A5 sketchbook.

Markers and colored pencils:

Charchoal pencil and white pencil:

Drawing a dragon

My daughter asked me to draw a dragon for her.
This is "Tangerine Leaf", drawn with Copic markers and colored pencils.

I also made this little chibi of the dragon:

Sketching

The first drawing in my new sketchbook. (Strathmore with grey paper):

WIP

Found some inspiration on Pinterest :)

Finished:

Used: Copic markers, colored pencils, white gel pen

More Secret Smorgling projects.

A "Secret Smorgling" is a little box with 160g of random fibres. It's sold by Nunoco and they are often in the shop.
These are such a great idea, the yarn is always "one of a kind" and a pleasure to knit with because all the variations. I specially like the little roving packs that have some sparkle in them, that shows up in the yarn and final project.
For the challenge on Ravelry we have to use up all the box.

I finished 2 more "boxes" for the Secret smorgling challenge:

The first box:

Made these "Smorgling Fiddlehead" mittens:

Smorgling Fiddlehead Mittens

This is the first time I'm making mittens and I really like them. I had to spin 3 different yarns for this project: a light and dark for the colorwork and a fine yarn for the lining.

The 2 thicker yarns are n-plied to keep the colors clear. I've devided the fibre in 2 parts to make two matching yarns (for the 2 mittens).

The lining is a 2 ply yarn, mostly browns (from the "Hen batt") and a little greens.

and with the rest of the yarn I made a sweet little "Bonnie Wee mouse":

With my second box I made this "Spring Dreams Shawl":

For this one I spun all the fibre of the box as a 2-ply yarn. The colors are all mixed, but there's a bit of a gradient because I tried to keep the greens and pinks at the same side.

The fibre:

The yarn:

(dark weather in Belgium)

I love the texture of the garter stitch in combination with the lace parts in this pattern. I made it a little bigger by repeating one of the lace charts (to use op the yarn).

For the bind of I chose an I-cord edging. 

Detail while blocking:

This has been a fun challenge, I hope there will be more in the future :).

Secret Smorgling project 2

I finished a project for the Challenge from Nunoco on Ravelry, it's actually two projects:

I started with this fibre: a little box of surprises:

Secret Smorgling

I made 2 groups, with light and dark colors, and spun two yarns. The light fibres are carded with the hand carders, they made a yarn that slowly changes color. For the dark colors I used small bits of the fibres in random order, then navajo-plied. It made a yarn with bright colors. (Difficult to take good pictures because of the dark weather here in Belgium...)

The stranded jacket is made first, I wanted light flowers on a dark background. The pattern is the "Circular stranded surprise jacket". I liked that I could draw my own chart for this. The jacket came out a little small and used only 75g of the yarn...but I think it's really cute.

Then I made the regular surprise jacket, with random stripes to use up all the yarn:

I have to finish my doll from my first Smorgling now ;)

Bobbin lace sampler finished!

I really enjoyed making this piece of lace...

I made soms mistakes... but learned a lot.

Bobbin Lace Sampler

Torchon bobbin lace sampler with spiders

The center and the first side is finished. I'm using 16 pairs for the border.

Bobbin Lace Sampler

I'm working on a sampler to practice bobbin lace techniques :)

I use 18 pairs of bobbins for the center with the spiders, at the sides I make a whole stitch (with a pair that always stays at the side) and twist the pair twice round the side-pin. This will make a little loop to 'sew' on the other parts while working.

I'm working on spider 15 now, just following the lines on the pattern.

Here are some close-ups of the 'half stitch trail' and the 'Torchon ground', just turning the corner to start another row of spiders.

Bobbin lace is fun to do!

Advent Calendar Scarf 2014, day 17

Update on my cowl: working on day 17 :)

One sketch a day: 25 to 28

Mini mandala's in colored pencils, with zentangels in fine markers and gell pens (white, silver and gold).