wolshop monique

www.wolshopmonique.nl

Deze mooie strengen wol zijn bij mij in de webwinkel te koop.
Het is hele mooie 100% schapenwol uit Zweden.De strengen hebben ongeveer een gewicht van 100 gram.Garen van de Zweedse wol is sterk, zacht en makkelijk om mee te breien.De wol is zeer geschikt voor breien zowel als weven.Het is ook mogelijk om deze wol te vervilten.
Deze 2 draads wol heeft een lengte van 300meter per 100 gram.
Wasvoorschriften: kant en klare kledingstukken worden in 40C wolwas progamma gewassen.

swaps on ravelry

I have been into 2 great swaps over at Ravelry. Off course I have forgot to post photo's of what I send to my first swap partner.........
But here are photo's of the gorgious things I received.
The first is from the no money swap and Em send and made me some lovely things.

I just LOVE this bag. It's so cute and the perfect size for a knitting project

Some lovely yarns from her stash.

A cute hat and small bag that she crocheted.

Some nice patterns and stickers.

These can be fold into small boxes.

She also made me some cute magnets out of the small caps from bottles(is that the correct name???)But they're on my fridge and I see that I forgot to make a photo of them.

I have gotten a new partner to send to in this swap as my partner didn't respond. So I will make something new and the I will make some photo's before I will send them to the States.

And then I was in another swap at Ravelry , called the summer swap.

Here are all the lovely things I received from Angie.


All the gifts where in this gorgious box!

Some recipes, a cute sheep pencil( I just LOVE sheep!), lavender tea, hot chocolate.

A very cute crocodile box from clover( love it!)

And a beautiful necklace made by Angie herself.

Some nice stitchmarkers.

A cute cupcake pin.

And this lovely yarn.

So as you can see I'm really spoiled.

starting a webshop

I haven't been around here much lately.

That's partly because I'm very busy with opening my own webshop,

http://www.wolshopmonique.nl/

It's still under construction.
We're working hard to get it ready and to have all the photo's , text etc there where they belong.
In 1 or 2 days some lovely sheep wool from Sweden will arrive. so hopefully the website will be ready and working this weekend.


I'm going to sell some lovely sheepwool from Scandinavia, some other lovely yarns, wooden knitting needles, stitchmarkers and projectbags made by myself and other things as well.
Soon I will be opening my shop with some of the items and I hope to have more and more listed in my shop as soon as possible.
I'm really looking forward to this wonderful adventure.
This is just a short post but I will be back soon with some photo's.

This is a small wallhanging of an Amish couple I made a while ago and somehow blogger wants this photo placed only like this, sorry.

And a cute sheep stitchery I made, i just love sheep.

And a quilted table runner I made from a charm pack that someone bought in the USA,. I'm in love with these lovely pieces of fabric. It was difficult to get matching fabric as the fabrics here in the quiltshop are different then the charm pack. But I manage to find some good matching fabric in the end.

And I'm trying to see if I can place a small video we made from our puppies when they had something else to eat for the first time.it was made of puppymilk and something else but i can't find the correct english word for it.I think it is porridge but I'm not sure. It's something that babies also get to eat for the first time after milk.

lots of socks

One of the projects I have started recently is crocheting some granny bunting.These are great to make and I love how it looks allready( lol).I hope to have lots more before next thursday because then it's my husbands 50th birthday and I want to have them hanging in our livingroom then.Perhaps it's not really a guy colour........what do you think? Shall I make them in another colour for him or not?GUY COLOUR....... Then I'm also knitting some socks. These are plain stockinette stitch and so easy to do in front of the tv or while watching a knitting video podcast.I love to watch those podcast that I have found on Ravelry, such as the knittgirls and 90% knitting.

This is the first sock and it's allmost done now.

And here are some socks that I have finished.

These socks are very nice only when I started knitting the second sock I noticed a colour difference.......I have received the yarn in a swap a while ago and when I looked at the label they both had the same dying number, isn't that strange!

Well, I just have to wear them with my jeans and now one can tell.

Lovely Spring socks, all done in front of a tv or computer.

Just love the colours.

These are so nice and so soft!!!! I can wear them every day, so lovely.

And I also love the pattern. I don't remember what pattern I just as I started these a long time ago. But it was an easy to memorize pattern.

And a simple grey hat, a person can't be prepared for winter too soon(lol).

I just want to make some flowers for it, to make it a bit more not so plain.

Only blogger won't let me place the photo correctly........

puppies

Blogger is acting weird again and it won't let me put the text where and how I want it to be.......
But I will give it another try.

I have been wanting to stop with this blog but then some woman over at the ravelry group de priegelaars convinced me to keep posting on my blog as well as go over to other blogs more. So I'm planning of doing that from now on.

I have some wonderful news.
The photo above shows our dog Meghan with her puppies, they where born on mothersday.
She got 6 boys and 3 girls, and they're so cute!!!!!!!
So adorable.....

I could watch them all day long.

Even though all they do now is eat and sleep, and sometimes I see them dreaming too.

We are planning on keeping 1 girl ourselves and the we have found great homes for the others too.

I have a few finished objects but I still need to make photo's from them. Will do that this evening.

knitting

I Have done a lot of knitting lately. I have finished some Spring socks. I thought that I have made a photo of them but I can't find it so I will make another photo of them.

I have bought this lovely yarn to make another pair of socks.I love the colours and I'm curious how it will show on the socks. Recently I have made 2 dishcloths. This one is for a swap I'm in. I really like the colour, so a great Spring colour.

This is the other one. On Ravelry I'm in a group and every week we're

doing a quicky kal and this is one of the things we allready made.

At the moment we're making a cowl but I haven't made a photo of it yet.

This hat was also a quicky kal on that group. I used a very sof merino wool in a gorgious purple coour.

Here I'm wearing it, Iwas sick when I made the photo so I look awful .

New York

My daughter Desiree and I had a great and so really wonderful time in New York.I just LOVE that city!!!!!!!!!!

It was cold and at first it was a nervous time for us because we didn't knew if we could fly because of the snowstorms the airports where closed. But at the time we had a flight it was all solved, YEAHH.

Here are some photo's, I have made 220 photo's while we where there and we stayed allmost 4 days in New York.

Time Square, so great!

Together with my daughter.

Here we where having lunch with a wonderful woman I have met through Ravelry. We had a lovely time.

Time square again.

A lovely view from the empire State building.

At Central Park eating a hot dog.

And another view from the Empire State building.

A church at ground zero. That was very, very interesting and it was emotional too. We both where very impressed.

A lovely view in Central Park.

The Chryssler building, gorgious!

And this was the hotel that we stayed in.

I really love New York and I would love to go back again sometime soon.

allmost going to New York!!!!!!!!!

I have had again so many troubles with blogger. It just didn't allow me to write anything on my blog and when it let me write something, it wouldn't let me post photo's.......such a pain in the ..........

Some wonderful news.........Just a little more then a week and my daughter Desiree and I will be on a plane to New York!!! I just can't wait anymore lol.
It's a birthday present for my daughters 21th birthday .
She became 21 last December and we think that's a very special birthday. After a lot of thinking of what to give her we decided that I'm going to New York with her. We will be staying there for 5 days.

Here are some photo's of our livingroom.
I have finished this wall hanging a year ago, I made it completely by hand and it was the first real quilt I made.


This is my chair, I always sitting there, watching tv and keep my hands busy with something to knit, crochet, quilt or x stitch.

This is the wall across our table.With some lovely prints of foxes, pheasants and English Springer Spaniels. And also a lovely bird.

This is on the other wall from our table.

Underneath the plant there is a little Amish doll I made.

The staircase.

And this is a shelf made by my husband and it's hanging in our toilet.