Mark making III

The luminous "E" and the teapot

Shining floral pattern III

Curled up together

Knit one, purl one, and it is almost time for tea

Winter pattern IV

Parisian geometries

The perfect stillness of Summer

Woolly pattern III

The cat in residence is unwinding....

Happy Easter!

This morning I found on the kitchen table this cute little surprise. Mumsy has drawn with a biro the house of our dreams on a boiled egg: she says that the smaller house is the workshop and is large enough to store all our crafts projects, fabrics and sewing machines. She has also pointed out that the sun is coming out of the clouds, awww!!!
Happy Easter to all of you and many thanks for stopping by!

MeanMagenta's latest surface pattern design

Many thanks to Deb at Smitten Kitchen!

Quite by chance I stumbled upon SmittenKitchen.com and decided to try "Mom's Apple Cake" recipe featured on September 30th, 2008. Yesterday afternoon Mum and I baked the cake and yes, we resisted the temptation to get up in the middle of the night to take a "sample". After lunch I quickly took a snapshot of the cake and then we had a slice, OMG! It is sooo moist and yummy, the perfect comfort food!
Thank you Deb for your inspiring website and delicious recipes!

Frosty pattern IV

Frosty patterns III

Pattern on ice III

This project looks very promising...

... this square will soon become a scarf, I love this colour combination!

Thrilling stitches...

...these stitches are thrilling in the sense that I always get a buzz when I learn to do something new simply by experimenting, no tutorials online, youtube videos or books came to my aid. This work in progress may not be or look particularly exciting to those who know everything about crochet, but I am pretty chuffed. My plan is to carry on and make a scarf, having fewer stitches on either sides on the next row and the row after will have again the same amount of stitches you see here.

I was supposed to crochet squares....

...and I ended up with these two "not so square" samples! I am experimenting and trying to follow the written instructions from the latest issue of the fabulous "Mollie Makes" magazine, but alas something has definately not gone according to plans and to my best intentions.
I guess that crochet for me is like doodling, I am still learning and I too easily get off on one of my tangents; I ask myself: "What if I do this, what if I go round this loop,..." and the initial idea metamorphoses into a new bizarre experiment.
...but wait. there is more!

How I keep snug and cosy on xmas day....

...I wear these lovely booties Mumsy has knitted for me as one of her xmas gifts, wonderfully warm! Thank you Mumsy!