Speed weave / darning loom

 A while back I bought a little speed weave  Here

But I have been to busy to play with it until now. It's a very cool 😎 gadget don't you think 😁  If you never heard of a speed weave, it's a tiny loom for darning.

I had a really good time trying it out. 

This was my first attempt of darning with it 

Not to bad for a first attempt. 

My second attempt turned out a little better 

I don't think it was very fast, and I would have done it much faster using a darning mushroom 🍄 

The end result however was much better and it is a fun way to darn socks 🧦 

I'm of course joining Evelyn  for some Mondaymending over at Instagram.

If you haven't listened to the interview with me and  Suzie over at Sew organized style hurry up and listen as there will be a new episode on Friday 😁

I am also making a slow progress on my mother's sweater. It is a lot of work, but it will be worth it in the end 🔚 

I have enjoyed late summer and spent much time outside. Today it is more autumn weather and rain ☔ 

Wishing you a wonderful new week ahead 

Katrine 🌼 

Sew Organised Style podcast

 I have had a long summer break from my blog.

Hope you all have had a lovely summer.

I have not had a break from mending and this sweater is what I have been working on lately 

This woolen sweater was was full of pills and had a few holes and stains. I actually said it was beyond saving... 🙊🙉🙈 Magic words... I obviously had to give it a try 😉

First I gave it a good shaving 

It's very worn and I did make a few extra holes while shaving it, not to mention the job was much bigger than I expected 😝😝😝

It made quite a difference though 😁😁😁

It's still a wip as I am planning to hide all the darns with flowers and beads

And now I'm sitting outside enjoying the last bits of summer and mending 

Today Suzie and I am Guesting over at  Sew Organised Style podcast

Talking  about our mending community Mendingmayhem and mending

We had great fun making this podcast and hope you enjoy listening 

Thanks to Maria and Sew Organised Style for inviting us 

Crochet hacking

My latest crochet hack is finally ready.
I bought a shiny sequins sweater at our local second hand store @bazarium a while back. Thinking I would make a jacket out of it or something fun.

But it ended up being a sweater after all.
I don't like the short arms and cut them off and crochet a bit between.
I used running stitch as a base for the crochet

The neck line was removed and got a crochet one instead.
I also made it a bit longer removing the ribb and making a crochet one instead using single crochet.


 After finishing I didn't like the sequins and spent quite a lot of time removing them 🙈🙉🙊

And had to make a little seam outside the original seam as I did want the sequence fabric to show.
I spent quite a bit of time hovering up sequence too 😂
They were all over the floor.

 I'm really happy with how it turned out, and I got to use this lovely variegated yarn from my stash. 👍

As usual I had a very good helper