ATC swap april

Hiya girls ,

First of all I wanna thank you all for your sweet comments about my doggies !!! Nope, I didn't knit them by myself .. lol..

Yes, i knitted that sweater about 20 years ago ( OMG I am gettin old !!!) and it's still wearable..

Wendy , you are so right !! The dogs really don't like when I sit down to knit, they want me to play with them !!:-)

For the april ATC swap on the Stampingfantasy Yahoo group, my partner was Gerda V , we didn't have any theme , the swap was completely free, only non cute .... on the top pic you can see the ATC's I send to her ..... hope she likes them !

And this are the ATC's Gerda send to me ..... they are awesome , don't you think so ? I do love them !!

Thanks for looking!!

hugs, Patti

Knitting company :-)

Hiya girls ,

Think this pic doesn't need any comments , at least I know who to blame if I make a mistake , lmao !!!

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Playing with colors

Hiya girls ,

If it is with inks or with yarns , I allways love to play with colors ... when I make ATC's , usually I make 2 or 3 with the same image but with different colors ... I love to see the difference a color can do with an image .

Those ATC's are colored with liquid watercolor on semi glossy paper , I heat embossed all sides with gold ...

This wonderful stamp is from Artistic Outpost .....

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Socks :-)

Hiya girls ,

Yep, another pair of socks is finished !!! Usually I don't care about the colors , as long as you can see the socks are from the same yarn, it's okey to me .... but with this Kaffe Fasset yarn I wanted to knit 2 socks who are the same .. Because I didn't want to disturb the colorpattern I made an afterthoughtheel in those socks ..

So... what color I shall put on my needles now ?? :-)

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Perfect resist

Hiya girls ,

On the Dutch Yahoogroup Kicostampers , the challenge for this month is to make something with the Perfect Resist technique ... I made 3 cards , I used the same stamp ( Stampers Anonymous ) for the resist background on all of the 3 cards and the other stamps I used are from Paperbag Studios and Stampinback ... the coloring I did with the brayer ...

Thanks for looking !!!

hugs, Patti

Playing with new stamps

Hiya girls ,

It was allready very hot in my stampingcave , so i think in summer it will be boiling there , but never mind .... for me it is better than suffering cold :-)

This card I made on a Spin & Splash background, made with alcoholinks from Ranger and the stamps are from Stampinback and I brake ....

So, now I am going back to the heath there to finish some ATC's :-)

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Need your advice !!!

Hiya girls ,

Recently I picked up this UFO ... it is gonna be a folk sweater from all kind of cotton leftovers ... My intention was to make some simple folk roses in swiss darning on the black stripes , in bright colors ... but now I am not so sure anymore if this is gonna look good ...

So shall I add roses on the black stripes or not ?? Please , help me or it will be an UFO forever :-)

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Blue socks

Hiya girls ,

Yes, I started something new , something blue , and it are socks ... LOL ... I am doing these in a simple 3k-1p rib , coz those ribbed socks really fit nice (usually) :-)

I am using dpns 2.5 eropean size and the yarn is from Meilenweit .

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Mindless knitting 1

Hiya girls ,

Yesterday I finished the first of the 2 pairs mindless knitting socks .. for the first time i made a short row heel and it did it the easy way..LOL.. I tried the "no wraps, no holes" thing, or whatever it is called ..... and it fits perfect !!

I am afraid that the other pair gets a vacationtime in the WIP drawer , coz I am a bit tired of the plain stockinette stitch ... I wanna start something new, something blue .... and there is also still this folk sweater that I have to finish ...

OMG . where can I buy time ?????

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Think spring

Hiya girls ,

This is my entry for the Stamp Something Challenge , they want us to think spring ...

My card isn't exactly a Dutch spring, but never mind, LOL !! I used Vivid dye inks , the swirlstamp is from Stampattack and the butterfly .. I dunno anymore ...

To be completely honest , I found the inspiration for this card by Hetty !!

Thanks for looking!!

hugs, Patti

Mindless knitting

Hiya girls

Yesterday I borrowed the DVD box of Sherlock Holmes , so you can understand that I need some mindless knitting that I can do while watching all those movies :-)

I started 2 pairs but I wanna try some different heels , so they are not completely mindless, LOL !!

Both yarns are from Regia , the one in top is from the Kaffe fasset design line , and the other one is a Galaxy something....

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Emergency Plea for Chopper

Hiya girls

While hopping across Blogland , I read this horrible sad story and the only thing I can do is ask you to read it , with the hope that someone can help this poor man and his dog !!!

Please go to Kim’s blog to read the sad story.

OMG , I whish I could do something , but here we have the same idiot law and I hate it ...... the dogs are not guilty but their owners !!! It takes a bad man to breed a bad dog !!

I truely hope someone can help Jody and Chopper !!!
Thanks forlooking !!
hugs, Patti

Sockssssss ...

Hiya all ,

Yep , another pair of socks finished !! So now I can spend the rest of the evening with deciding what yarn I take for the next pair.... lmao :-)

And Yes Dawn ...in summer I'm also gonna knit , coz the Dutch summers are lousy , before we realize it is autumn again :-)

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Serenity

Hiya girls ,

They say that .... sometimes less is more .... and now i do understand what they mean !! This stamp from Artistic Outpost is so beautiful that it doesn't need something more .... actually I think that the flowers are allready too much....

The background is made with liquid watercolor from stampinback, and like I said before thae stamp is from Artistic Outpost .

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

ATC swap

Hiya girls ,

My monthly ATC swap was this month with Joke S, we agreed a 3/3 swap with 3 different backgroundtechniques ... This are the ATC's I have send her .. hopes she likes them !!

And those are the ones she did send to me .. I just love them !!!

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti