Megy and machine

  I wanted to make this bag for a long time, but my skill level was never there. Till now.  Well, my skill level is still not there, but now I have enough courage to try. And it turned out so good. Better than what I expected. After I made this one, in one day I made two more.  Let me show you how I did it. Step 1. Material - Macrame cotton yarn - Croche hook - Scissors I wanted my bag to be sturdy. That is why I picked macrame yarn. You can make it from any yarn you want. Step 2. Pattern For this, I watched a lot of YouTube videos and Pinterest patterns, but in the end I made some changes to get what I wanted. First you start with a magic circle. Inside it there needs to be 11 double croches.  In the pattern down below you can see the first 3 rows. This is your floor of the bag. Now let's start making the wall. 4th row is a single double croche in every stich.  We have gotten to our dragon scales. So I found this pattern on Pinterest, but at first I didn't real...

Not so long ago, I wanted to build a medieval tent. Actually, I needed to build a medieval tent.  The first idea was to buy one. Now that I look beck on it, I should have done that.  But at the time I did not have the money to buy one. Medieval tents cost around 1000€ and that's just for the tent part. Shipping is not included in this price.  Thus my adventure to build one beggins.  Step 1. Know what you want! The tent I wanted is a small medieval tent from the 11th century. This needs 2 poles that will hold it up and 1 pole that will connect those 2 and hold the center up.. I wanted one side to be completely open and to be able to use that side as a parasol. Step 2. Blueprint! This is my original drawing. It should be 180 cm high, 200 cm wide and 400 cm long. Once I had that, I was able to do some math. The tent consists of only one rectangle (2) and 8 triangles (1). 4 on each side. On this sketch (1) and (2) you can see the measurements I used without seam allowa...