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Mange & Monique
I think November is such a good month for storytelling. Days are getting shorter and evenings longer day by day here in Finland. Since I don't have any new stories to tell at the moment, here is a...
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Weaving in the ends
There has been a long pause here on the blog again while I have been weaving in the old ends and trying to find a new pattern as I wrote before. I think I also wrote here in July that: “Än gör det inte...
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Linen and some more linen
Happy New Year 2018 and hope your year and has started well! It has been a while since my last post while my making has been directed towards the new home these last couple of months. Apparently a lot...
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Home
When I moved I organized all the old projects and now I try to finish them. Here is a granny stripe blanket in the making from the beginning of 2016. I am so happy that Grace and Frankie are back on...
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Rug Maker
A coffee cup by my side I started another journey and dived into creative writing. I guess my body is also in some sort of detoxing mode again like last summer. I had to leave oats, or pure oats away...
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Ps. to Rug Maker
I listened the Piano Guys while writing the two previous texts. Somehow I like their energy and understand it. I’ve also tried to listen to Häuser and 2Cellos. For some reason while listening to them I...
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There are these moments in life where you look back for something you have made, when you have got back from imaginative yarn piles to your everyday laundry piles, and you wonder that: “Oh, was that...
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From the inside out, from the outside in
I love how during the darkest time of the year there are tulips with their many colors to enjoy. In a bouquet I recently bought were these cuties, don’t remember seeing this so often, little tulips...
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Käsintehty iltasatu - Handmade Bedtime Story
Kello on 8-9 maissa illalla tätä tekstiä kirjoittaessani, joten lienee sopiva aika pienelle iltasadulle, käsintehdylle sellaiselle. Tarina juontaa tosin juurensa parin vuoden taa näihin virkattuihin...
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Linen purse with triangles
You can now find a pattern for this linen purse with triangles for sale on Ravelry. In this pattern I have combined one of my favorite crochet stitches with tapestry crochet. I think that the...
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Marokon inspiroiman maton ohje - Pattern for the Moroccan style rug
Kuin kynällä piirrettyjä herkkiä viivoja, timanttien verkostoja ja kuvioita kutojien omasta elämästä kertoen. Niistä taitaa marokkolaisten berberimattojen viehätys tulla ja ne olivat tämän virkatun...
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Backpackers
It doesn't unfortunately look like this outside at the moment here in Finland. It is snowing and minus grades, but I think it is a lot nicer to look at a picture taken in May and this refers to the...
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New Beginning
At the end of 1990s I read a book called Anna, Hanna och Johanna by the Swedish author Marianna Fredriksson. We were reading modern Swedish literature as a part of our education and somehow I...
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When giving up on the old name, I have now updated social media accounts. Therefore, here below you see the new names:E-mail: pirjonpuuhastelut (at) gmail.comInstagram: pirjo_riitta_m (it was difficult...
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Käsintehty iltasatu - Handmade Bedtime Story
Kello on 8-9 maissa illalla tätä tekstiä kirjoittaessani, joten lienee sopiva aika pienelle iltasadulle, käsintehdylle sellaiselle. Tarina juontaa tosin juurensa parin vuoden taa näihin virkattuihin...
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Linen purse with triangles
You can now find a pattern for this linen purse with triangles for sale on Ravelry. In this pattern I have combined one of my favorite crochet stitches with tapestry crochet. I think that the...
View ArticleI'm a fool
Not that it is any new news. ;-)Going back and forth with blogs and other social media handles. I need some kind of a web page for my creativity but of what kind has been the question. The easiest...
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Saturday Night (Crochet) Fever - pattern for tapestry crocheted bracelet
Last Spring, on a Saturday, I needed something fun to do with yarn, so I went to search for metallic yarns in the yarn and craft shops here in Porvoo. While crocheting I got inspired to listen to some...
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One metaphorical journey
Something fragile, yet still going strong. The picture is from Frediksborgs castle in Denmark.It has been a weird year the word: “enough” has given me. Or the mantra I made out of it: “I am enough....
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They say that old ways won't open new doors
Reading time: 20 minutesKeywords: life lessons, relationships, love, emotional home, Groundhog Day, The AlchemistPoint of view: a comedy in three acts - or a tragedyPlaying in the background: 1st act:...
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