Knits

And that is almost the entire extent of knitting content for this post; hanks of Richard Wernekinck Garens Franse Landwol hung outside Stoffenidee in Ghent. I bought some to make cushion covers out of. The shop has a good range of yarn and fabrics.

The rest of the knitting content involves the blanket I’ve been considering for my mom. I asked her to go have a look at the Noro and she came back with four colourways she likes none of which are the natural one. I kind of wanted to keep the thing a surprise by saying “I’m knitting you something” and not tell her what or how big, but maybe I need to let her in on it and ask if she’d want a technicolour blanket that would require handwashing. There just doesn’t seem to be a good machine-washable substitute out there…

Regarding Trigger, thanks for all the sentiments. As of right now I do not plan on getting another cat (cats is more like it) until October at the earliest when I’ve moved into a new place. Even then I may wait until after the new year as I expect I will go to the US for Christmas and it’s a bit of a hassle to find someone to look after the cats or put them into a kennel.

So Belgium… I’ve been once before (I’m not going to count the overnight stay once even if it did involve going to the bar with inflated animal bladders hanging from the ceiling). This time it was a girls weekend - just me and A. We went out and drank beers, ate some food, wandered around, laughed and laughed and laughed, until she tried to kill me with the poisoned food, but then we still laughed some.

We headed to Ghent on Saturday. We woke up late, managed to catch the slow train, and then I had to work out how to get us into the town centre since she speaks French, but couldn’t figure out the pictures haha. We made it and right away we stumbled into a craft fair. I’m not talking the hokey craft fair of old where people sell toilet paper cosies and things made out of popsicle sticks. This was like Etsy. IT WAS AWESOME.

Luckily most of the stuff on display was geared towards children (clothing) and the other stuff was way out of my budget even though I saw some very cool things and appreciate the craftsmanship. I did come away with a couple of funky brooches which I haven’t taken a picture of yet, but I will.

We wandered around the city and snapped pictures, sampled beers and food, and well that’s about it. It was meant to be a do-nothing-much weekend and that’s what we did. I’ll be uploading my pictures a bit slowly so I can post them here so get ready for some picture heavy posts.