The very last ones

These are the last chokers I made about 4 weeks ago ...

(and the pictures too where made at that time)

They will be on sale at the 1m² event next sunday in Hasselt.

Hope to see you there !

Workshop 'photography for bloggers'

I had the honour, privilige and luck (I was on the waitinglist) to join in on a workshop

about photography for bloggers at the very succesful event of VanKatoen

in the MIAT museum yesterday.

Elza D (you know the other famous one from the 'Allemaal Rokjes'-book) and Photo-Copy-Ann (foodphotographer from Zesta - ps try the recipe it's fantastic !) shared their passion and enthousiasm

for making pictures.

The official manual of my camera (about 250 pages)  was reduced by them

to just one  A4 sheet with

the most important techniques and tips for the use of a camera.

Now I really know what most of the buttons are used for on my camera.

At the end of the workshop we all had to make a 'test' :

one apple, a museum ... and of course a camera

SHOOT !

Hopefully you will see some difference in the quality of my

shootings in the near future.

Preparing for 1m²

On Sunday the 22 nd of April I will be participating

 in the 1m² event in Hasselt.

The organisation challenged us to use just one square meter for displaying our objects.  

On the ground you get 1m² ... but nobody mentioned

how high the ceiling is ;-)

Stay tuned for my final "1m² installation".

Playing with bike tyres

With some patience, rubber (a innerbiketyre)  and a needle I came to this result :

a choker and bracelet

Remains unfinished

It now has been three weeks since I last crocheted.

I'd just started a new collection of crochet bracelets in different

shades of colors ... but wasn't able to finish the first one due

to too much pain in my elbow.

Today I will start fysiotherapy as medication doesn't help.

Spoiled

We all got spoiled with an easter brunch at my mom's place !

Hope you had a great weekend too !

The hype

Oh yes, I succumbed for the new hype too !

Making skirts in a very simple and easy way.

I bought the book, had some nice linen fabric waiting and got started. 

 Minding I followed about 3 years of evening class : sewing  - about 20 years ago and ever since not really took

place behind my sewingmachine on a regular basis. 

The book told me not to use pins but small pieces of something that weighs to put on the pattern, so I took some nice pebbles.  I did the same for bringing over the pattern on the fabric ...

waw ... what a difference this was in comparison to what I learned all these

years ago, remembering how to try to find your way on a Burda pattern.

When it comes to sewing ... well just 1 cm of  extra for the seams is necessary. 

No more extra drawing on your fabric, just put it under the machine

and start stitching.

No tailorchalk is involded, no extra stringing before sewing, no pins used, put in the zipper with the machine not by hand ... etc !

So ... fun !

No comparison to the lessons I had back in 1991.

Ok ... I did not take a great picture of the final result ( I made a short A-line skirt) ... I made the size 46 (and it suits perfectly) and

my legs are still like 2 milkbottles, so I think you understand why :-)

The book is fun, a totally different style than what you would expect from a 'sewing'manual.

By the way : another 6 weeks of no crocheting is ahead of me as

the 'crochet'elbow is stil in a bad condition.