For the Love of Textiles

Just a little post this week about: Knitting... I did finish off my Cabled cowl.. And it is a JOY to wear..esspecially last week, when it was really cold in the morning going to work.. 75% Soft Merino and 20% Silk and a 5% little Sparkle.. Twinke DK Next to that I did finish one of my most beautiful Items I did knit this season.. My Dots and Stripes Scarve in the most softest yarn I ever knitted with sofar.. Difficult to take a good picture of the colour.. Shilasdair  yarn containing... Cashmere, Baby Camel, Merino and Angora.... and a matching Silk yarn...all dyed with Natural Dyes... And to make it even more luxury I added a lining from Liberty fabric to it.. I so love the range from Liberty fabrics.. Bram has some tie's I bought for him at the shop In London some years ago.. The pattern is the "Peacock Feathers" by William Morris ..designed in 1880 and still a Stunning Beauty.. Handstitched it to the back...

Some days are difficult...some days go a little better... I sometimes feel we are living in an inbetween period in our life. Difficult sometimes to deal with, but there is also awareness of how special life is. Often memories turn up... Today while I took Bram in his wheelchair to the market I suddenly saw us -29 years ago- walking there. Buying vegetables and flowers on a Saturday in spring. Everything taken home in a natural canvas bag from Marimekko. A warm day it was, and we both felt good together. He must have looked like this picture. I always feel good with him..very good, even now when he is ill and I push the wheelchair. We both cross borders to make the most of it. But he is tired, his eyesight get's worse and walking is very difficult. Every day he has to pick himself up to start the day. I admire him for that, but I also understand it when he says that life is getting hard for him, and that he doesn't like to live in this way... From the beginning I ...

Last night I came back from my little 2 day Holiday-Trip to London. Today I feel I have been away for more than a week....that always happens when you have been away for a short holiday.. So I flew on Thursdaymorning early from Eindhoven to Stanstead Airport. Not that Ryanair is my favourite..but it was cheap and..well it is just less than an hour, so the limited leg-space is not that bad if you sit on the inside. Perfectly in time..but what a horrible coloured interior and clothes the stewardesses have to wear in those planes. I guess they have thought that the yellow brightens up the customers. Well...anyway..with closed eyes and music in my ears that hour was rather pleasant. At that time I didn't know that I would be surrounded by beautiful colours the rest of the days.. After landing The Stanstead Express brought me in 45 minutes to Liverpool Street Station. A real comfortable trainride with nice country vieuws too (I remember seeing Longboats in a small canal). It was ...

I got this card from my FB and knitting friend Marjoleine and this represents in a way my dealing with everything happening over the last weeks... Last Monday Bram and myself had a talk with the doctor, physiotherapist and head of the department he stays and we came to the conclusion that on the 1th of November he can go home...So very good news. Of course he needs to have treatments to become stronger, so he will go 2 mornings and 1 afternoon to the Rehab centre for as long as it needs. I think after he gave up the feeling that he really didn't liked it there he became stronger and accepted the fact that it was necessary to stay there for a while and make the most of it. But.. the end of staying there is at the horizon.No more living alone for him in a small room and no more living alone for me in our house..Really looking forward to that! To make this step going well we are doing it step by step. So we made a little trip to a restaurant for coffee, a trip into town to the hair...