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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 06/10/2026

Custom-made colourful bikinis, a repeat order :) 👙 #sewing 🧶

Photo of three sets of bikini's, custom-made by me: red/blue, ocean blue/orange, dark/light green. And a yellow/green slip from a previous custom-make.

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 15/09/2026

Can we get some more rain please? 🌧️

Photo of a dried up pond, plant are still somewhat green. There's a net above it to keep leaves falling in; grass, tiles, stones and a bucket around the pond

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 13/09/2026

Seen on our walk today: 🪱 a legless lizard basking in the sun, so I took the high road ;) 🪶 talon marks on the path, from a bird taking a small mammal? 🐻 several bear droppings, sorry no photo 😅

Photo of a large legless lizard on a sandy path with rocks, grass and trees in the background

Photo of talon marks and prints of a small mammal on a sandy path with rocks. There are no tracks going to or from the spot

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 12/09/2026

A hedgehog is roaming through our garden, and I hope it's one of these little ones we looked after a couple of years ago :) 🦔

Photo of two little hedgehogs next to each other, one is facing the camera

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 05/09/2026

Meanwhile, at my sewing machine these are ready for a finishing touch 😅 #sewing 🧶 [link in bio]

Photo of a dress form with a white cotton long sleeved women's shirt

Photo of a clothes hanger with a tailored trousers

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 05/09/2026

I've been looking through my WIPs recently and am finishing some of them. This Mara glove is finally getting its sibling ;) #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

Photo of a finished right hand glove, the left one is on pink dpns, two balls of yarn (yellow and blue). Pattern: Mara Gloves from Knit Like a Latvian accessories Ieva Ozolina. Yarn: Drops Flora

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 30/08/2026

I made another shirt, this one is for a friend's kid :) #sewing 🧶

Photo of a white cotton kids shirt, buttons lying loose on their marks ready to be sewn on

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 30/08/2026

I haven't knitted many sweaters because they seem to take a long time to finish 😅 But, I love the look of the Free Flow Sweater so I took to the plunge and am giving it a go. And the cotton/linen yarn is really nice to knit with :) #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

Photo of a WIP: dark blue sweater with lace pattern, knitted in the round from bottom up. Pattern: Drops Free Flow Sweater, Yarn: Drops Bomull-Lin

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 28/08/2026

There it is, fresh off the needles, hand-knitted with merino, wool & alpaca 🧶 The Dark Forest Green Moebius shawl, just in time as the autumn colours start to appear around us ;) 🍂 #knitting #FOFriday

Photo of a Moebius shawl folded out as hexagon, dark green and dark grey wool, bamboo dpns. Yarn: Transilana & Drops Flora

Photo of a dark green/grey Moebius shawl on a wooden deck

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 26/08/2026

It rained/hailed yday and it finally cooled down :) Which makes the swallow happy as well, there's a true air acrobatics show over our garden happening atm 🪶

Photo of a blue sky with a swallow flying down, hills in the background

Photo of a blue sky with lots of swallow flying, hills in the background

Photo of a wooden deck, fat rain drops and hail stones

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 25/08/2026

We're getting ready to collect fruit, and the wasps are already at it. We just have to be careful 😉🐝

Photo of a plum tree full of fruit, a big wasp climbed up while I was there

Photo of branches with pears and plums, buzzing with wasps. The pears belong to them now ;)

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 22/08/2026

My friend chose our village's lovely garden cafe to get together for their 'șezătoare' 😍. In the shade of trees friendly neighbours joined in and we sat, talked, learnt, knitted & crocheted (not necessarily in that order 😉) #knitting #crochet 🧶

Photo of WIPs: a knitted Moebius shawl in dark forest green colours (yarn: transilana & drops flora), and a crochet cotton wind chime (yarn: schachenmayr catania)

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 19/08/2026

No proper rain yet. The hills still look green with a hint of autumn colours, and the ground is pretty dry..

Photo of hills covered with green trees, blue sky with clouds

Photo of a rake in a big deep crack in the ground, dry and green grass around

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 19/08/2026

Shed skin 🐍, in the garden :)

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 14/08/2026

Admiring craftsmanship at the traditional crafts festival in Sibiu's open air museum 😍 🧶 #knitting #weaving

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 13/08/2026

The wasp comes back to get more corn 🐝🌽

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 04/08/2026

I just listed two new knitting needle organisers and also tidied up the shipping options. Still learning as I go, but slowly getting there 🙂 And as the sun's finally out over here, maybe also check out my summer hats 🌞 🧶 #sewing #knitting

Photo of a knitting needle organiser, folded open holding needles, scissors and a ruler. Handmade from cotton (offwhite, green dots, blue trim)

Photo of a knitting needle organiser, folded half open. Made from cotton (offwhite, floral & bees print, black trim), wooden button

Collage of three photo's of bucket and summer hats, made from cotton in various colours on out- & inside, reversible and wearable on both sides.

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 02/08/2026

It's sunny outside so I made a summer dress 🌞👗 #sewing 🧶

Collage of two photos of a summer dress on a dress form, front and back. Made from two different fabrics, pattern from the Goldener Schnitt

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 30/07/2026

We've spotted at least three salamanders in our pond!! 🤩🦎 #nature

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 26/07/2026

I remember discovering #ShowMeYourKnits not quite two years ago. A friendly, talented community that keeps on inspiring me to knit 🤗 Thank you all 🫶, and thank you so much Liv @livrunsfast.bsky.social for hosting every week! 🥰 Here are my beanie doubles 🧶

Collage of two photos, each with two beanies :
top: pattern Drops Holly Jolly, yarn Drops Lima pink/white and navy/white
middle: pattern Drops Stay Warm, yarn Drops Lima pink and purple

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 20/07/2026

Thank you 😊! It is 🥰, and some of them have been used a lot ;)

Photo of four very bent knitting needles

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 18/07/2026

We set up the tent and already have a visitor :) 🦎

Photo of a lizard sitting on the roof of the inner tent

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 18/07/2026

These two live right by my side while I'm knitting 🩷💙 One holds the needles passed down three generations in my family, the other the DPN set my mum gave me some years ago. I made them both myself, measured and calculated the pockets so everything would fit :) #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

Collage of photos of a knitting needle organiser, outside is ecru, inside bright pink, orange bias band, a plethora of knitting and crochet needles in different sizes

Collage of two knitting needle organiser, one closed (see previous photo for description), the other folded open. Many pockets, ecru colour material and blue/gold striped in the background, blue bias band, another plethora of dpn needles in different sizes

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 13/07/2026

Lots of buzzing in our garden 🐝🦋🐞🦗

Photo of a bumblebee on pink oregano flowers

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 13/07/2026

Seen on our walk 🦋 Is it a moth [six-spot burnet] or a butterfly [Sint-Jansvlinder], or both 🙃

Photo of a Zygaena filipendulae (black insect with red spots) on a green leave

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 11/07/2026

That would work! I've made samples, the lavender-orange seems to make a nice combination :)

Photo of three balls of yarn and a knitting needle with a sample knit, combining violet with orange or chalk-white

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 11/07/2026

Yes, good call! I've made samples and am leaning towards the dark green with dark grey :)

Photo of two sample knits (5 balls of yarn, two knitting needles with test knits). At the top two options: dark green with light grey or dark grey, at the bottom: olive green with dark grey

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 11/07/2026

Texture for #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Turns out once you get the hang of it, it's hard to stop 🙃 I've knitted four Moebius shawls now, which colour's next?

Collage of three photo's of four moebius shawls (in green/white, red/white, yellow/white, brown/white)
Pattern: me, playing around, yarn: transilana & drops

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 05/07/2026

I've got the second sock on these lovely needles 🥰 #showmeyourknits 🧶

Photo of a finished blue colourful sock, a WIP on dpns next to it and a ball of yarn. My own pattern, yarn Patonyle artistry, dpns Drops pro romance

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 27/06/2026

Yesterday I put some lavender cuttings in dirt. To our surprise a beetle emerged ✨🪲

Photo of several lavender cuttings planted in a ceramic pot with dirt, a shiny beetle on one of the three bamboo support sticks

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 24/06/2026

Seen on our walk today. Hello turtle! 🐢

Photo of a European pond turtle on land, with grass and leaves around it

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 23/06/2026

We braided crowns from sânziene flowers 💛

Photo of two braided crowns made from sânziene flowers (Lady's Bedstraw)

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 23/06/2026

This was my favourite book when I grew up! The German translation is for friends, but now I am thinking of reading it first 😉 📚 #mustread

Photo of two books, one in Dutch - Pluk van de Petteflet, the other is a German translation - Pluck mit dem Kranwagen

Written by Annie M.G. Schimdt - illustrations by Fiep Westendorp

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 22/06/2026

We just spotted two of the owls, in daylight this time :) 🦉 (*that* is not our roof!)

Photo of an adult owl on the top of a ceramic (broken) roof, grey sky in background

Photo of a young owl peaking out of a big hole in a ceramic (broken) roof

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 21/06/2026

Hello summer 🌞 thanks for all the fruit 🍓🍒

Collage of three photo's: strawberries, cherries on a branch, red currants

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 20/06/2026

Light & Dark for this week's #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Light - is this a smart colour for gloves? That remains to be seen but I do love the way they look, and they are warm 🤍 Dark(-ish) - second time I knitted the Sophie Hood, took me ages, not a fan 🖤 Happy solstice! 🌞❄️

Photo of two white, hand-knitted gloves
Pattern: Drops Desing Parisien
Yarn: Drops Nepal

Photo of a dark-blue hood-scarf
Pattern: PetiteKnit Sophie Hood
Yarn: Transilana merino-alpaca

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 17/06/2026

O lectură recomandată călduros 🤍 Pentru patroni, profesori, și oricine care crede într-o societate incluzivă și dorește să facă parte din soluție Atipic - autor: @petewharmby.com

Photo of Pete Wharmby's book, Romanian translation: Atipic - De ce lumea nu e construita pentru oameni cu autism si ce ar trebui sa facem in aceasta privinta - Traducere din limba engleza de George Chirita - AHA books - o colectie de deschis minti si inimi help autism

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 15/06/2026

The first peas of the season are always a treat :) 🫛

Photo of a green bowl filled with freshly picked peas, in front of pea plants in a garden

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 13/06/2026

Here's a photo of my knitting - ex post facto ;) I made a bit of progress on the Birch Trees scarf (pattern by Julia Marsh)

Photo of a WIP: scarf in sea green Drops Lima yarn

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 13/06/2026

I spent the morning at a "șezătoare" in Sibiu which coincided with Worldwide Knit Day :) #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Some were knitting, making lace or embroidering a blouse (called "ie") Sorry, no photo of any knitting, but look at this.. It took her more than a year to finish & it is absolutely gorgeous

Photo of a hand-made white blouse with blue & gold embroidery (also done by hand)

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 12/06/2026

And it's done! The shawl is made from just one yarn cake (linen/cotton/viscose blend - very soft & nice to work with) and would have been bigger if I initially had found more yarn 🙃 I think the result is brilliant and it will soon be send off as a present 🎁 #FOFriday #knitting 🧶

Photo of a colourful shawl on a dressform, handknitted with a linen/cotton/viscose blend
Pattern: Drops Design Innocent - Yarn: Linen Soft from YarnArt

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 10/06/2026

The neighbour asked us to come over and pick cherries 🍒 We swapped them with strawberry jam 🍓, desigur 😁

Photo of a tray of freshly picked dark and red cherries, with leaves

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