Shame on me!

'Cause I'm really lousy blogger.

At the end of last year I tried needle felting for the first time. It was really fun.



This year began with practicing making lines:



And as the new year brought really too much coins into my wallet (our currency changed, we had kroonid but now we have euros), I had to make a coin purse but as I can sew only as much as my sewing machine, it's far from perfect:



And I just wanted to say that this is the reason why I've never knitted a hat to myself:



This hat belonged to my father, his mother knitted it when he was a child and he made the what's-its-name (the big thing at the top of the hat). So this hat is about 50 years old. I tend to value old things, especially when they come from my family. But last spring I crocheted a beautiful feminine hat (Sarah Arnold's Flapper hat):



I wore it for the first time on the last day of the year 2010. And I keep wearing it.

The yarn used is Jil and the size of the crochet hook was 3.0 mm.

Tonight I tried bookbinding for the first time (yes, I plan a lot of First Times for this year), it didn't come out as good as I hoped, but at least now I know I can do it. I'll add picture later (hopefully soon).

See You soon!

Ode to Men

My husband, my brothers, my father - the most important men in my life. They all have something in common: they can make marvelous things if they want.

My husband is a teacher (teaches boys' handcraft, I don't know the right term in English). Some of his own work: here (the page is still a bit incomplete as I'm not a IT-specialist ;) ). A collection of pupils' work is on Flickr, but we don't remember his yahoo-account (if you know what to do on that occasion, let me know, please. My husband also has a blog in Estonian. About a year ago he tried a bit beading and wiring:



I have two elder brothers. The younger one made the best looking bunny to my son. My son already had a bunny, which he had for Christmas. They look good together, don't they?

The older brother visited m. some time ago and he too tried beading and wiring a bit.

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of my father's handcraft and at the moment there's nothing to take picture of. I remember brightly how lovely was a wallet he made to my mother, sadly it was lost a very long time ago. But I can say that he too is not afraid to do something with his own hands.

So men don't just cook well ;)

The Beginning

My English is awful... but still - I try to blog in English. Why? 'Cause I joined Ravelry and my blog where I have shown my handicraft is in Estonian.

As I haven't had a chance to practise my English my blog posts are probably full of mistakes. But who cares, right?

My flaw is, that I'm impatient, I tend to rush into new projects therefore it isn't a suprise for me if I discover at the very end of a project that there's something terribly wrong at the beginning :D And I'm not fond of starting it all over again.

Now I need to spend some time on the looks of my new blog.