Pink

Ode to pink.

Pink makes you think of soft things, 

or cuddly things, 

of sweet things,

it gives you a feeling of harmony.

I needed a wreath of pink roses. 

 Brightness

Softly sweet

 Colours

My wreath of pink roses, what a joy it gives me to look at it. 

The perfect rose

Seldom you find a pattern that fits so well into your fingers, as if it is one you designed yourself. Searching on the net for flowers I found a rose ..... the perfect rose

I loved it ....

it must be pink ....

a wreath of pink roses

Then I had to search for the right pink to make the "perfect" roses.

One day I walked into a shop and there it was, the right pink for the perfect rose. It is Katia mississipi 3, a cotton I learned to really appreciate.

  Here it is, Above the picture of the yarn there is a link to all the colours.

Only pink roses were maybe too much, so I added red, also of Katia mississippi 3.

A mix of green yarns were chosen to cover the styrofoam circle.

At this point I was thinking of making leaves, maybe the pink will be too much, not for me though.

I was looking for roses leaves and tried a few, but eventually I wrote a pattern for myself. There are many very good patterns for rose leaves, but I needed them to fit with my roses.

The beginning of a rose wreath, not yet there but almost.

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The Perfect Rose pattern is from Kati crafts

Cross stitches

Maybe 30 years ago my great love for handcraft was cross-stitch embroidery. This piece is of Pako, my favourite make of cross stitch packets. Now my eyes can not see those little stitches anymore .... or I have to get a proper magnifying glass.

The entire thing!

Giving up on the CAL 2014

Not all my projects end up as successes, in this post I'll explain why I put a stop to this one. Not that it all is lost, no way, I have enough ideas for this yarn, it's just that I don't feel comfortable with this multicoloured blanket it is turning into, maybe I started out with too many colours.
Maybe I have crafted all my live, but it turned into this intense frenzy only about a year or so ago when I bought my first yarn online and that was a lucy packet. All this amazing colours, I couldn't believe my eyes!
But, eventually it turned out not to be my thing.  It looks great in a ripple blanket or such, but this blocks .... I don't like. I can't imagine this technicoloured bomb anywhere in my house or anywhere! I started out with too many colours. In the first block I used 13 colours!
So far I'm really, really strugling with the colours. With so many different blocks, it will look better with much less colours, at the most 5.

Week 2 Popcorn parade

Week 3 Starburst flower

Week 4 Basket of berries

What a strange stitch at the outer rim, positive thing about this, it made me realise I do understand and I can crochet these difficult stitches.

Week 5 Starfire

Week 6 Blooming lace (actually I like the way the colours came together in this block, it almost looks like I start grasping colour combinations, but this is where I stopped my blanket. I won't frog it yet)

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CAL is from a facebook group 

Official CCC Social Group 

New clothes for my doll.

Every now and then I buy a dutch magazine about Dolls and Teddy-Bears. Many artistic dolls and bears are featured. I myself like the patterns of Marianne Heijnis. She has absolutely fantastic patterns, I never have a problem with them. This is such a pattern, it fits my doll to a T. 

 When I was a child my mother taught me these embroidery stitches, they are so easy! It's lazy daisy and french knots. I wanted to add a little bit of extra colour.

 The pants were way too big for my doll and I just winged it and it came out fine. I had to add flowers and a leave, just because.

The shoes I made myself, again just winged it. 

Most of my dolls will soon have a dress of this pattern.

Here she is in all her glory, just beautiful!

and not showing her pants!