Christening

After seeing all those lovely christening dresses in the shops specializing in Brussels lace, my hands just itched to get started on something similar. Eventually I found a lovely dress I could crochet in a magazine, one I could make, because let's face it, those dresses in the shops were made by specialized persons and I was only a beginner.
Then I was pregnant with my 4th child, my daughter. That is 32 years ago!
Although I have this christening dress for so many years it never came to mind to use it again and only recently when my children were visiting, my daughter spoke about it, about using it when her child is born (second half of december). Lena was only a few weeks old then and when my daughter-in-law saw it, she wanted to use it too for Lena. Looks like it's becoming an heirloom now.

 

I found this wonderfully, beautiful lace in a shop and  couldn't resist.

If you wondered what the scallop is doing .... during april and may of this year (2013) I did a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and I wore my St James' Scallop all the way on my backpack, now it will be used in the ceremony.

Twins

Doing a blog is more difficult than I thought, but even though there will be long pauses in this one, I must try and post all my "crafts" here. Actually when I walk through my house there are many little memories of things I made. Mostly it reminds me of a time gone by and how I worked on it, of the times when my children were young and the moments when all went peaceful with the children playing and I had my moments of crafting. What perfect moments of happiness and contentment.

The kids became adults and I am blessed with a number of grandchildren. 

The first crafts most children learn is most probably spool knitting. When the twins hadn't done enough after a year I decided to make it into little carpets next to their beds

Flower/Bloemie

Finally I got into making a new blog post! Well; it was summer and not only that, I have been away for a while, to Switzerland .... working there. But I was busy on a WIP for my daughter, christmas thingies and a shawl for myself, but not tof them are finished.
I'll post about "Flowers"
Some time ago I found this really great blog with a beautiful bear in african flower motives. Then I just finished a cushion cover in this motives and was looking for more patterns in it.
Here is the blog:
http://heidibearscreative.blogspot.be/2011/09/lollo-african-flower-bear-pattern-is.html
My first purchase was the bear, but the hippo look so cuddly that I bought that pattern as well.
http://www.ravelry.com/designers/heidi-bears
Not long before I bought the Lucy pack of Stylecraft Special DK and I had all these bright colours and a pattern to match, thus, Flower came alive.

It looks almost like she's wearing lipstick. :)

When my grandchildren saw her, she was instantly baptised into "BLOEMIE" or Flower in english.

As you can see, she is a much loved and cuddled hippo.