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Posts from ‘August, 2009’

Oldies, part 1: ancient dance costumes

Time to present my dance costumes. We’ll take off with the oldest ones, that is, pre-teaching.
This will be a sort list (both photos were taken in 2002).
First my pink balady dress from 1997, decorated with string of silver sequins.

Dark red glittering galabeya with saidi sleeves, underneat wide silvery harem-type pants from 1997.

The latter has been [...]

Oldies, part 5: up to date with knitting

I joined Ravelry just over a year ago. What a wonderland that is! I follow several knitters who are inventive and creative (and knittaholics, judged by the number of the projects they’ve completed), and thanks to them I’ve found a lot of interesting patterns and ideas.
Since I joined Ravelry, I’ve kept a track of my [...]

Oldies, part 4: somewhat recent knitted items

In 2006 I looked into my yarn storage and had an inspiration.
I selected wine red Novita Nalle from my stash, a yarn, which I had bought several years earlier. There was a nice pattern of wrap-over jacket in Suuri Käsityölehti, except that I didn’t want to make a wrap-over jacket. So I picked up [...]