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Hobby vs work

Here's the progress so far on my new hobby project! I'm liking the colours a lot, but I do like the squares with a white inner circle more. The yarn is Drops Alpaca from Garnstudio (pattern link here, the yarn I use is much thinner than in the pattern). It was a great relief to move my studio out of our home earlier this year, because our apartment was crammed with my stuff. I have noticed though that I quite liked to work from home. So in the future I wouldn't mind having a studio connected to our house again. I am the kind of person who needs to get busy with my hands all the time so now when my work is out of reach at night, I have suddenly been in an "I have nothing to do"-situation, which is very rare to me. This is why I've taken up crocheting :) This is and stays a hobby, I've promised myself not to make it a jobby too...

At work I've been doing a lot of this lately. Today I sent one village to Spain and another one to Portugal! Tomorrow I will start to working with a large quilt for a new project I'm very excited about (more about that later). It is not everyday that I have the time to make larger quilts so I am quite eager to get started with this quilt. As soon as I get my fabrics from customs... Remember this quilt I made last year? It is now hanging above our dinner table brightening up this darkish corner. The fox and the snow had to go, it's Spring! 

The sun is shining from a blue sky today in Helsinki! I hope you are well where you are!

I'm a ma-ma-terial girl!

I'm pretty amazed I haven't quoted Madonna here before, I have been humming that song all day! These incredible, yummy fabrics arrived today from Sew, Mama, Sew! Right in time to make it to the flaps for my exhibition quilt. It will become a splash of colour!

And some more material love! I did a little swap with Milja at a fair I was selling at last weekend and got this lovely 100% ecological yarn. It is made from waste from a factory that produces clothes from ecological cotton and hemp. The quality reminds me of linen. I was going to give it all to mum for mother's day, but I think I will have to keep one skein for myself. I would like to make one of these, wouldn't it be pretty in bright colours?

 
Milja also makes these amazing ecological dish clothes under the label Kierti. Be sure to take a look if you're in Finland, the site is in Finnish only at the moment.

I got something else in the mail today too, be sure to check back tomorrow on Thursday if you want to see what it is and maybe participate in a give away!