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May 2007

ACTIE!!

Kopieer onderstaande en plaats op je blog:

Handwerken zonder grenzenActie is Reactie
De uitgever van het tijdschrift Handwerken zonder Grenzen is failliet.
Dit prachtige en unieke blad lijkt daardoor gedoemd te verdwijnen.
Als abonnees en toekomstig abonnees willen we dit toch zomaar niet laten gebeuren??!!Laat daarom op vrijdag 1 juni van je horen! Plaats je reactie bij het actie bericht op
tijm.blogspot.com.

Probeer dit bericht aan zoveel mogelijk belanghebbenden door te geven, ook mensen die geen internet hebben (plaats namens hen de reactie).
Hoe meer reactie, hoe meer abonnees, hoe meer kans we maken dat het blad wel kan blijven bestaan!
De actie heeft twee doelen:
Allereerst willen we als abonnees aangeven dat we gedupeerd zijn door het stoppen van het tijdschrift (velen hebben geld betaald maar zullen er geen nummers voor terug ontvangen). Daarnaast willen we laten weten dat we niet zonder Handwerken zonder Grenzen kunnen en graag willen dat het tijdschrift door zal gaan, in de vorm zoals het nu wordt uitgegeven .
Maar het is ook belangrijk dat mensen die nog geen abonnee zijn en dit wel willen worden, van zich laten horen. Zo kan een toekomstige uitgever zien dat er echt een markt voor het tijdschrift is. Dit kan vrijdag op een speciale manier aangeven worden.

For my non-Dutch readers: in the Netherlands there is only one real ‘fancywork’ magazine. It writes about all kind of techniques (embroidery, knitting, crochet), old or new, Dutch or foreign and keeps us informed about exhibitions and other interesting crafting things. It is a beautiful and luxurious bimonthly. In the blooming and booming crafting world more and more people have or want a subscription and the magazine is flourishing. It now appears that the publisher is bankrupt due to mismanagement with other magazines. We try to save the magazine. Express your adherence to this action on friday 1st of June on her weblog (Tijm).

thanks to yvonnep

eiffel fo

The Eiffel is finished. 

Pattern: Eiffel from Knitty

Yarn: Asia from Lana Grossa

Yes mum, I know: a bit see-through in the tower: when going to work I will be more decent and grab a t-shirt or tank to wear underneath.

Eiffel_knitty_finished

Look for the differences:

Eiffel_knitty

Holy Stitch!

    Stichmarkers_front_and_back

I am a loyal reader of her blog. A while ago she opened a shop: Ballee. She is selling the most beautiful stuff: cute hats, socks and  (Oh Holy Stitch!) the most gorgeous stitchmarkers I have ever seen! Since I am a Dutch Southern  Girl with a catholic upbringing  I could not resist them.  I am not catholic anymore but my first rollmodel was a nun: the head-master of my primary school: soeur Francesco, bless her. She travelled the world and showed the slides in the hall of the school for all the children: soeur Francesca on an elephant in India! soeur Francesco in the tropical woods of Indonesia! I wanted to be a nun for years.

This is how the stitchmarkers were send to me:

    Stitichmarkers                                 

On nice cards and with two markers extra.

I immediately put the marker Jesus in action.

Stitchmarker_in_action

Eiffel

Eiffel_in_progress_1

In this post you can read the horror story of the eiffel sweater. But I could not forget it and bought some new yarn: half cotton / half bamboo from Lana Grossa. It is as soft as a baby's bottom. I have chosen black to look as Eiffelish as possible.

Lesbos

Last week we had a short holiday on Lesbos, Greece. Last year we've been there in July: Now nature looked completly different than it did in July.  Then we saw olive trees and olive trees and olive trees and more olive trees. Now there were lots and lots of flowers:

(Because my digital camera was stolen at the airport, I am posting google-pictures.)

Les1

This is the town where we stayed:

Molibos Molivos.

It is really as beautiful as on the picture: very pitoresque. Nearby there are the hot-springs of Eftalou: After laying in these VERY hot springs (46 degrees!) you feel re-born.

Eftalou

As a souvenir I bought this lino:

Molivos_lino

And Paul had a romantic moment when he bought this wooden panel for me:

Romeo_and_julliet

Bless you, my divine dutch god.

Hey dude

Hey, Dude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

Amigurimi_dude_1

And any time you feel the pain, hey, Dude, refrain
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders
Well don't you know that its a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder

Amigurimi_dude_3

Amigurimi_dudes

mutant-amigurimi

is it a bird? NO!

is it a chicken? NO!

is it a dragon? NO!

It's a sort of mutant-amigurimi!

Birddragon Birddragon_2 Birddragon_3

flower basket lace

Flower_basket_shawl

Finished!  It was fun to knit, although I suppose the rowan silk haze would be better for this pattern. The yarn is Opal's sockyarn