Special Feature Friday: French Soul Knittery

Edition 22

When Ashley from French Soul Knittery lost her grandmother, she decided to take up knitting. The goal was to be closer to her grandmother, who always used to knit. When Ashley learned more and more knitting she also found the passion for the hobby. Now she is running her Etsy shop, filled with lovely knitted items.

The thing I noticed the most when entering the shop where the knitted necklaces. Never before did I think of this technique to create necklaces. The look of these necklaces is really quite special!

Besides these necklaces other knitwear can be found in Ashley's shop. Ear warmers, purses, baby hats, cowls and infinity scarves. All hand knitted. Ashley likes to work with funky colors that stand out. 

Ashley has been so sweet to provide a discount code for the readers of the blog: Spring2014
This code will give you a 20% discount on the items you buy from her shop. (shipping not included)
The discount code is valid until the 30th of April 2014.

Besides her Etsy shop you can also visit the other websites affiliated with her shop, like her website, facebook and twitter account. 

Christmas inventory

The end of September is nearing, and the list of things to do before Christmas is getting longer.

Along with gifts for family I am also making a lot of items for the shop this year.

I can hardly wait to see everything in the winter theme in the shop, but before that time arrives there is a lot to do. I have started with 3 patchwork pillowcases, using bits of fabrics I had left. 

Here is a little preview for one of the patchwork pillows, far from being finished though as I am planning on quilting the front.

I would love to tell more about the gifts I am making, but I cannot risk it, family might just read along ;)

All I can say is that it involves some knitting.

I might have mentioned before that I wanted to start crochet. This week I finished my first crochet ball, it took about 3 tries before it worked out well, that is with all the stitches on the right place and of course in the right amount. Especially ending with the right amount of stitches was difficult at first, but I get the idea now.

Cosmetically there is still a lot that I have to improve, but I am sure this will all come together eventually!

I have found some really nice patterns of a little owl, and I would love to make those!

However, with the busy season coming up I am not sure if I have time to work on the crochet any time soon.

Better be off to bed early, to be up and about on time tomorrow! 

Special Feature Friday: Millionbells

Edition 5

Earlier this week we finally went on our holiday, it is wonderful to meet up with family again!

However I nearly forgot about the Special Feature Friday, but luckily I remembered right in time.

Lately I have been looking at a lot of crochet patterns, at this moment I have not yet learned how to crochet but the patterns available are so incredibly cute! It is just a matter of time before my first try.
I hope to find a knitting and crochet shop this holiday so I can buy some supplies.

So this week I will feature Millionbells I have seen her a couple of times before on Etsy, this shop owner designs crochet patterns and after payment you will receive a PDF with instructions on how to make them.
The patterns are really cute, there are patterns for plush toy's but also for hot water bottles and egg cozy's.
(because the only thing to make a Sunday morning breakfast better is a cute egg cozy on you fresh warm egg)

The patterns are available in Dutch and English!