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So the last Coffee & Crafts Sunday was a while ago already, but I wanted to show you what we were doing: crochet bees! Aren’t they adorable? But even better: They’re for the World Bee Day on May 20th. Friends of the Earth Germany is having a campaign called “A place to be(e)” to raise awareness of the bees dying and demand immediate action from our government.
For this, they are calling people to crochet little amigurumi bees. Well, they didn’t have to ask me twice! So Sanna and I sat down two Sundays ago and bust my stash (of course it’s not a huge stash buster, but anyway). We found some leftovers of yellow cotton yarn that is just perfect bee colour.
I’ve been feeling quite a bit under the weather lately, but last weekend something special happened to lift my spirits: We had our first Coffee & Crafts Sunday. And it was brilliant!
As many of my friends also are into crafts, I thought it would be nice to meet up regularly for the sole purpose of talking about knitting, crochet and sewing. Also, it is a good strategy to see each other more often in between work, kids (some of us) and all the other stuff. So from now on, we get together on second Sunday of every month to have coffee, chat and share our current projects.
The first issue was a success even though some people couldn’t make it due to sickness. Sanna brought a delicious red wine cake, we also still had a a part of the ginger bread loo (Yes!) she had brought another day, there was coffee and lots and lots of fun.
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You wanna know what we were working on? Here it comes.
Having been a huge crochet fan for a long time, Maria is currently undertaking the second go at learning how to knit. She has successfully cast on and knitted the first rows of a seed stitch cowl for her daughter in a beautiful aubergine-coloured Merino yarn. I didn’t get around to taking a picture, but they will definitely follow as she is determined to learn a nice bind-off next time.
