Into the sun

This morning we felt cold at the beach, but yesterday...

Playing with letters

When Petra posted this bag last Wednesday, I came up with the idea to make a C-bag for Christina, L's friend. She gave a great birthday party the day after, so I finished the bag (made of Ikea fabric) the very same day of the post. That's how inspiration should work, don't you think? It gave me sewing wings!

But the day after we decided that the bag was more like a G-bag instead of a C-bag... Luckily last Friday L came home with another invitation of another birthday party of another friend. Guess what, her name is Grietje! Honestly I think this bag will suit Grietje even better...
I can imagine the letters J, T, U, V, X and Z will do the job as well. Are you giving it a try?

Yellow

If I ever would get the opportunity to meet the designer of these tubes, I would embrace him or her. These great colored and graphic designed beauties we use quite often and every time I love to see and use them again. Wounds are a pleasure to treat by now!

Me and zippers

L is having a birthday party at the moment. For Philemon I made this pencil pouch. It means practicing zipper sewing to me. The fabric of Ikea you saw before.

All design credits of this present go to my super creative friend Kristel. A lot of variations are entering my mind... I'm curious what the outcome of that will be. And if there will be one...

Be careful birthday boy!

Family wear?

She wanted to have these. To wear under shorts with tights. I allowed her to buy her first sort of unhealthy footwear. In the shop I joined her. It feels like former times! Perfect Saturday's wear. But as well under a jacket to the office.
Now the three of us have Allstars. F is a persistent refuser, so we finally canceled our plan to give him a pair for his birthday tomorrow.

Collection

She was like little me. Very much wanting to make pendants. So I bought her diy-pendants in this shop I don't like.

She's over the moon... and I liked to photograph them.

50!

The very first of our friends is reaching 50 years! A is a dear friend for 25 years already. Tomorrow we will be attenting his birthday party, starting with a cooking class followed by a dinner.
My other dear friend A and I decided to buy ànd to make him presents. This very beautiful book, which is totally designed and written by Yvette van Boven, is what he will get for present when published in a month. Tomorrow he's getting two booklets: this winter edition and this same-sized and same-styled booklet that we made. About all we know about him, all we share and how we love to have him around. It's hard to express incredibly precious things like that on paper, but... I hope and secretly think he likes it!

The making was great fun: to work in a team with A, to layout the booklet and last but not least to design the cover, inspired by the very beautiful paper cuts of Yvette. Btw, in this case there was no paper cut at all, but the cover grew out of scanned handsketches, that were composed in Photoshop and in the end provided with a digital shadow.
For those who want to know: we had it printed and finished with a hardcover right here (just like these books).

Our afternoon

 Making these the traditional way...

... by punching tiny holes, blowing the content out of it, breaking some when doing this, cleaning afterwards the egg yolk from the terrace, painting, dropping one, decorating and dropping another just before hanging them. Fun!
Just wanted to say: happy Easter!

To wrap a baby

My friend R became a mother! Of course I love to bring her baby boy something when I'll go to see him. This little man needs warmth, being just out of a warm belly, I thought. So this knit was made, inspired by this knitting on the bias. The used yarn is as pure as possible, as if straight from the sheep.

The cotton yarn you saw before. It was just added randomly like I saw here some time ago and still love. I used needle EU 8 and 500 gr of yarn. The pattern is so easy and great to do, as if climbing and descending a mountain.
Do you want to try this blanket of about 80 to 80 cm yourself?

Then cast on 1 st
row 1: kfb
kfb, k till the end
repeat.
When you're halfway:
k2tog, k till the end
repeat
last row: 1 st, bind off.
Done! Simple as that.

Come in!

My former colleague David is studying photography. He asked me if he could shoot the interior of our house for a study project. I love the shoots so much, that I want you to enjoy with me. But doing so is rather exciting too, giving some privacy to the www...

About the one above, this is really one point of view in our house: from our play floor into our - one could say - home office on the left and back to the kitchen at the right side. Sitting behind the computer, you can look down into the kitchen as well. Behind the wall in the middle is a storage from floor to ceiling, filled with playthings (games, puzzles, etc.), nicely hidden behind sliding doors.

In the past I often made pictures in our house, but the view of a visiting photographer appeared to be fully different. That's why the series are surprisingly good to me. I think they look promising!