Ik ben , en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Antheabe.
Ik ben een vrouw en woon in Ghent (Belgium) en mijn beroep is .
Ik ben geboren op 21/04/1982 en ben nu dus 43 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: knitting, crochet, music, games, marine navigation.
Please feel to add any comments or remarks!
Wool and Water
Wol en Water Dutchies: Post gerust in het Nederlands - vertaling Eng naar Ndl op aanvraag
The hat for bf is finished, and I'm liking that circular needle stuff, so a bigger project is imminent.
And again, Ravelry was my inspiration. I found a great, big, warm scarf, seamless, easy to remember pattern, so perfect for little ol' me :p
But the bf-beanie is coming to aliking by his mother (and my mother-in-low-to-be or something, so let's just call her Mima, like everyone in the family) and she drops the hint that I may make her something like that.
But I have my mind set on the scarf, so I'm making that one. If it's good enough and she likes it, she can have it with all the love I'll put into it (and I'm making it thus with her in mind).
Grrrrr, only problem, again: casting on and counting!!!
The casting-on part works like a charm (I love my all-purpose cast-on which nobody seems to know), but I keep having to count and recount the number of stitches.
And after finally having cast on the right amount and having knitf a couple of rounds: problem! It seems I have twisted the stitches! GRRRRRRRR!!!! Pull out, start over... Counting, recounting, casting on further, counting, recounting, recounting, recounting, casting on further, counting, recounting..... and so on. Very, very, very closely following stitches around the (a bit too short cabled circular) needle and join! Start pattern again, and we're off for a good start this time.
Hey!
This pattern IS very easy to remember! And very easy to follow and fix mistakes, even in the previous row!
And yes, the skiing trip is over, the scarf is not finished yet, but it's coming along great!
11/02
And yes! After the trip and in between busy workingdays, I managed it! My very first scarf is finished! I actually did the full 14 inch of the pattern! And it turned out beautifull! Just have to finish of sowing in the loose thread.
I can't wait to show it to Mima and hope she likes it and will accept it as gift. Maybe I can make a accompaniing (is that a word) hat and even maybe some gloves with a likewise pattern I found???
19/02
Finally saw an opportunity to present the scarf to Mima... Anti-climax: she has allready way too many scarfs. A hat of some sort would be great, though! I'll know what project to start next!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I've got my needles and my book and my everything I need to start my brand new knitting-fase (read the about me for more about that part).
So I'm thinking present for my niece-on-the-way, I'm thinking, not to easy, not to difficult, so I'm getting to the pattern of a square ajour babyblanket. Perfect! I get to knit, and my sister-in-law won't have a problem with a blanket, people don't actually have to see the baby in it.
Okay,first having a look at that pattern. Looks do-able, let's try it out first before I start up for real. Sounds simple enough, right? Yeah, well, that's what I thought so too, but my fingers start hurting every 2 rows I'm doing and my arms keep cramping up. Great idea I had, start knitting again, you idiot!
But, we are stubborn and I have my mind set on knitting as my new hobby and I know all that stuff will go away with time, I just have to take it up 10 minutes at a time.
So, we're set, the pattern works, the gauge kind of works well enought to cast on. So taking a further look at the pattern. Starting off with the rim in simple basic casting on of a whole lot of stitches (and I hate counting!) and after finally getting the right amount on the needle a simple basic tricot rim of 3.5 cm high. Basic, basic, very do-able, sounds good so far.
And then I look a little further up the pattern: cast on a additional 16 stitches ON BOTH SIDES! Hey, wait a minute! On both sides evenly, as in, in the same row??? Oh damn, I'm starting to panic! Every way I know how to cast on will make it uneven - OR - I have to cast on with a new thread, what I refuse to do! (Yes, I can be very stubborn about very fussy things)
But thank goodness, I'm going to Ostend this weekend and I'm not far from where my Mum lives and I'm not in a real hurry that day (visits there tend to stretch out like a bungeecord). I can ask her for advice!
13/01
So pack up everything, stuff that had to be done out of the way, on to Mum's for a cozy knittingsession. What was I thinking?
Off course she wanted to help! Gladly!
-What's the problem? Casting on? No problem, dear, give me your needles and wool. -Casting on isn't the problem, it's casting on on both sides, can you show me how to do that? -But off course, dear, no problem, come closer I'll show you. How many, do you say? -It's 162 stitches for the pattern, Mum, but I just need a proofie to show me. -Oh, but that's no problem, that's done in a quickie. (Starts knitting away like a space-rocket) -Mum, I just need you to show me the trick. Can you go a little slower, please? -But off course! (Proceeds casting on at the speed of F1-racecar) -I'm sorry, I can't follow, a little slower, please, I just got knitting again and you're going pretty fast there! -Wait, I'm almost there, what's next, you said? Tricot for 2 cm? -3,5 cm, Mum, but you don't have to do that, I just have trouble with the cast-on. -No trouble at all, it's done in a jiffy, than I can show you where they actually have to go on the work. Can you take a look at my laptop now, I have messed up the thing again. -Yes, Mum.
Mum knits away like I've never seen before and I start my routine standardprocedure with visit's to Mum: the unmessing of the (again brand-new and not-affordable) laptop. She has an unbelievable talent of messing up everything with electronics (TV and phone are next in the procedure), but is very determined to use them anyway and pressing on buttons she doesn't know the meaning of.
After the starting up of the damn laptop, Mum goes: finished, what's to happen now, did you say? -Wait, Mum, I'm coming! Okay, show me slowly. -(Casts on F1-style) -Wait, hold on! Step by step, please! -(Casts on Freewayspeed) -Wait, where did you put that needle? and so on and so on.
I can't explain how we managed, but I got in, trying to learn a new cast-on and came out with 3.5 cm tricot + additional stitches, having learnt nothing, having seen and being confused a lot, with a big head-ache as a bonus.
Like I said, routine, standardprocedure. And, okay, the tricotpart of the first 3.5 cm looks splendid, but the additional cast-ons look very loose and I knit pretty tight and I don't dare to take them of, because - 1: I don't know how to put them on again, and 2: my Mum might see the finished product and notice! (I did mention we have a pretty screwed-up relation, right?)
So knitting on a couple of extra rows of my own now (and I wanted to have MY OWN HANDmade gift for the little one). And, what did you expect... the difference is VERY noticable!
14/01
Rest of the brim, yes! My turn! And I've found the perfect way to knit without getting sore, watch the overload of recorded movies and not having to zap trough commercials! I knit through them! And that's about the time I can manage to knit without cramping up and having done about a row - maybe 2.
By tonight, I can start on the ajourpattern!
20/01
Wow, that pattern is more difficult than I imagined. It's going, but I'm not superhappy with it. But the mistakes are not too visible. It's not actually that the pattern is so difficult, it's just the concentrating on following it. I'm not memorizing it too well, I guess.
25/01
We're leaving for the long-expected skiing trip. And I can't take my blankie with me, because sis-in-law is coming too and she can't know! But I got my new supplies in that I ordered online and I'm eager to try them out too on the trip. Progress of blankie is a good 30 cm in total, so it's happy to wait for my return.
12/02
Back from skiing trip and back from a bunch of other projects and back to project 001: Blankie!!! It's a little late at night and I don't have too much time before bedtime, but a couple of rows managed. Starting tomorrow, you're coming with me to work!
