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Kralalien
@kralalien.bsky.social
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Colourful Creativity is my brand 🌈
I'm a Dutch indie dyer, glass artist, creative biz owner, yarn addict and cat lover... 😻
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Knitting keeps me sane... Waiting while the immunotherapy is dripping...
A bright neon brioche cowl in progress on my lap, besides me my husband's legs are visible on a hospital chair.
April 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Sunday evening the last pills were taken, yesterday the blood showed it was okay enough... Now it's time to go to the hospital and hope immunotherapy will teach DH's body to kill some cancer, instead of almost killing him in the process like last time. 🤞
An empty strip of pills on a kitchen counter
April 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Well that's it for me and racing in #SockMadness I disqualified myself with a mistake I will not fix. I'm not enjoying the yarn and pattern combo at all, and I will not hate knit the full second sock either. Back to knitting is for fun!
A single sock in a mosaic and cable pattern, in navy blue and mustard yellow. The sole is in pinstripe length wise and has a stark line across just before the toe, the mistake I made...
March 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Sock Madness round one has started! Managed 2/3 of the leg, cats approved so time for bed now. Hope to finish the leg and gusset tomorrow. #SockMadness #SockMadness19
2 Cornish rex cats, one blue calico and a cream and red one, lying on a yellow blanket on my lap, looking sleepy at my sock in progress on a circular knitting needle. The sock is yellow and blue has a ribbed cuff, and tiny cable pattern. It also has a lamp work glass bead stitchmarker on it, in shades of blue.
March 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Proof of conjoined sock knitting. Just the toe left, and then to cut and do a bind off! #SockMadness
Hand knit socks in a greenish yellow on sock blockers. The socks are still joined at the cuff and one toe is still to be knit. Also the project bag is showing, with cartoon quotes like HUH? BOOM and OMG!!!
February 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Time for #sockmadness 🥳 conjoined twins, so knitting these socks from toe one to toe two and cutting the socks in the middle between the cuffs! 😱
A caked up center pull ball of yarn, in a greenish yellow on a project bag, green with comic quotes like Bammm and question marks. In the ball of yarn are circular sock needles with a tiny start of the toe of a sock. Besides it on the table is a tiny yellow pair of scissors and a bunch of lightbulb stitch markers.
February 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Spent the afternoon away from my doom scrolling and playing a game with DH. I feel so much better tonight! Valeria card kingdoms has definitely become one of our favourites!
A grid of 4 rows by 5 columns of cards in the middle of a table. A hand hovering over the third row. A score board on both sides of the grid with tokens to track items. And 2 cards in the bottom corner of the photo in front of me.
February 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Is #FOFriday a thing here too? Because I have 2 finished objects for it 🙌

Last night just before bedtime I finished the plain vanilla socks in Schoppel Zauberball Crazy for DH, and this morning I finished my gloves! Warm hands for the upcoming frost period for me!!! 🧤
A pair of hand knit gloves on the left, in purple, yellow and petrol variegated yarn, in a 1x1 colourwork pattern, and a pair of hand knit socks on sock blockers on the right, in green, purple and blue gradient yarn.
February 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Like this... Twisting skeins to dye, need to untwist for drying, dye again, and then after they dry again, twist them again... Always feels so useless
Undyed hanks of yarn on a table and beside it undyed twisted skeins of yarn in a blue laundry basket, standing on a chair.
January 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Time to get back to the dye pots! May 25th there is a craft market in my own city Enschede, the craft circle, and of course I cannot skip that! So I need a lot more stock!!! 💪

These mini skeins will be turned into Paradise Fade mini skein sets! 🏝️
3 packages of undyed mini skeins of yarn on top of a metal dye pot, in front of a colourful tile wall.
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Halfway point reached! And I didn't even hate knitting the fingers! So time to cast on glove number 2! 🧤
A single glove and a project bag on a tile floor with wood print. The glove is variegated blue, purple and yellow. The project bag is bright green and a cartoon words pattern with text like OMG, BOOM and HUH?
January 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Decluttering the dye studio done! Also did part of inventory, and am now ready to get back to work! 💪
Room full of yarn in bins and a few boxes. The counter is ready to work on again. Room full of yarn in bins and boxes, kitchen counter full with boxes and a yarn bin
January 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Current obsession... a 2 colour brioche hat, it looks so difficult but it's so much easier than I expected!
November 15, 2024 at 12:30 PM