#52weeksofcrafts

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Progress

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This is the most resent picture. I’ve started on the shawl, and so far it’s a nice pattern. I’ve come a little further than the picture shows. Hopefully, I’ll have time to take a new picture tomorrow or wednessday Test crocheted for: @kris-monster / @krisdoescrafts

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Who inspires you?

I wrote a post not that long ago about myself and how I use patterns and make them myself. And I thought ‘Why not tell you all a little more about myself?’

As my blog probably betrays, I mostly crochet (it’s not like my name gives it away, huh?) but I also do other stuff from time to time.

Most often, I turn to knitting (I’ve done that a lot lately and I might collect my projects sometime in the future). I’ve experimented with needlebinding. I’ve done Tunesien crochet. And I’ve embroidered.

But not everything have to do with yarn. my mother made sure, I could both hand sow and use a sewing machine. She showed me how to work with leather (I’m not the best, but I can make do).

And one of the guys my mother work with, showed me how to solder (I’m truly a beginner in this field).

And to return to my question from earlier: ‘Who inspires you?’

My answer would be my mother who taught me several crafting techniques. It would be, the guy who showed me soldering. It would be the people, I work with who have an impressive love for everything that have to do with knit and crochet.

So, who inspires you? Let me know

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How to choose

52 Weeks of Crafts - Your stash 

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Patterns or not?

If you have been following me for a while, you might have come to the conclusion that I’m not the best at sharing progress pictures and that I don’t talk a lot about how my projects come to be.

So I’ll give you all a little more insight in the space, I call my brain -

When I decide to make something new more often than not it’s the materials - the yarn - that talks to me.

‘I want to be a pair of gloves,’ they might say.

Or ‘wouldn’t I make a pretty sweater?’

And so it begins.

After finding the perfect yarn, I have to come up with the perfect pattern. Sometimes I use patterns made by someone else (I can rarely make it through a pattern without making one change or the other). But more often than not, my creations come from the depths of my mind.

To come with an example, one of my friends asked me to make him a dark pair of fingerless gloves. I know, he’ll use them for a larp (live action roleplaying game) this autumn so they had to be warm.

How do you do that? Why not meek them double layered? And from that thought these gloves came into existence

(but not without some swearing along the way)

52 Weeks of Crafts - Patterns or not

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52 Weeks of Crafts - Design

When designing things is the only time, I can actually draw

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52 Weeks of Crafts - Outdoors

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My friend who I work with let me use this picture she took of herself in the newest creation from our shop. It’s very nice and very striped, and I have a friend who needs to have one of these in pride colours for Pride Week this year

52 Weeks of Crafts - Special occasion