It's 2024.Time flies, also when it's hard work to get through the year. Family is taking up a lot of time, in more ways than one. My dad isn't doing so well, so I've been back up caregiver since November last year. Worrying about my parents, left little room for knitting. Spending time with our own kids and grandkids was great and re-energized us. I've got a couple of ..read more

 The Standing Stone in Lund, Unst, Shetland.I was knitting away happily on a new design, with this name, to remind me of it. What would one want to wear on such a location. A warm, wide, woolen shawl. At least I would.I started designing, testing and after 4 attempts, I came to the conclusion that I was doing too much. The place is empty.Like, Heather, Stones, Bracken (ferns) and Sky. That's it.  ..read more

 Lund.Going through the pictures of my 4 Shetland trips to add to a new pattern. Mind you, it will be late summer before I'm done with it. I remembered the trip to Unst, where I 'found' a Standing Stone. Luckily, there is a Facebook group for those, later I found another in Nesting, high up a hill. On Unst, with the Outlander series in mind, I had no jewellery with me to test it. Hahahaha. A bit ..read more

 Sumburgh Lighthouse, Shetland (c)2016 moniqueb.Until the 31st of December, end of day Amsterdam time, there will be a 19% discount on ALL products in all my webshops. Back in 2000, when I got pregnant with our girl, I picked up my knitting needles again. So, this blog and my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/BridgetsMom have her name prominent in the title.  the 31st of December ..read more

 Hi, i'm still here. It's been awefully quiet on my blog. Somehow, social media pushed me and many other to Instagram, Facebook or my new webshop. I sort of forgot about the blog. That's not so kind, because usually I would post every Friday. A lot has happened, since the anniversery and opening the new webshop. Running an actual webshop is a lot of new learning and getting new skills. I only ..read more

 It's been 1 year since i opened up my new webshop. It's been 12 years and a day since I started Kantwerk / A Passion for Lace. Before I did this, back in 2004, I was in garden design. I had a blog about it too, with a matching website. But I wasn't very good at it. Made long hours behind the desktop computer and failed regularly. The provider did have templates, but I wasn't even smart enough to ..read more

Hi, Thank you for (still) visiting this blog. A good while back, my webhost updated its servers. That has had a terrible side effect: my site Kantwerk.nl crashed. Sort off. I'm not smart enough to repair it, or get to it at all. So, I opened up a new webshop: https://kantwerk.myshopify.com/ There are some new patterns on there. A set of 3 with Estonian Lace design. The designs can ..read more

Hallo Breier en Breister!  het is hier al erg lang akelig rustig. De dagen vliegen voorbij, jongste kind haalde haar diploma, zoon 1 zit bij de marine en zoon 2 is inmiddels vader van ons eerste kleinkind. Natuurlijk brei ik gewoon door! Helaas is er niet veel belangstelling (meer) voor Kantwerk lessen of workshops. Dat kan komen omdat de blog is verwaarloosd, maar ik vermoed dat er vele ..read more