How do I turn the ideas in my head into real creations? It is always something different that inspires me. So almost each creation will be designed in a different way than the other.
Without inspiration I can not make a creation. Inspiration can come in many different ways.


On vacation in Noord-Holland. I was born in Maarssen, I grew up in Den Helder and I am living in Papendrecht for almost 23 years. No, I hadn’t heard of Papendrecht before. (It is close to Dordrecht, in Zuid-Holland.) But once a year I have to go back to the sea, to smell it, to hear it and to see the beach.
So we were on vacation in Noord-Holland, near the sea. On a fair in Schagen there was a salesman wit hall kinds of yarn, and the fluffy looking yarn was calling me….
It was Grizzly from Scheepjes and for €1,00 per skein, just a steal. So I bought 5 skeins of a light grey. No inspiration yet, but I had to have them.
During this holiday we went to the beach, we visited Den Helder, and I did a little bit of crocheting: the CAL of Echtstudio Amigurumidag. Once in a while a took a look at the skeins of fluffy yarn.
Once at home I knew what I wanted to make: a raccoon. On the world wide web I found a nice picture of a real raccoon, I wanted to recreate.
Crocheting with this kind of fluffy yarn is a challenge. You can not see the stitches and your work can not be too thight. So the raccoon had the be a cuddly stuffed animal.
With a lot of stitchmarkers, starting over and over again, and making some parts of cotton yarn, I created a nice and fun looking raccoon. But how would I name him? The inspiration for his name came when I went to a Kiss concert in Rotterdam, together with my eldest son and my brother. There is no better name than Gene!!
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Like Scheepjes Grizzly inspired me to make Gene the Raccoon, the same way did Zeeman Cotton inspire me to make the Mice Val ’n Tine.
I made the Hygge CAL, but didnt want to spend too much, so I made the Hygge CAL with Zeeman Cotton grey as main color. It came out very nice!
I had some skeins I didn’t use in the Hygge CAL. Hmmm, what or who is grey?
A mouse! You know what, I make two mice who can’t live without eachother. And they lived happily ever after!

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