who is Jessica

My website is the website, I was looking for, several years ago
And did not find it. So I created one myself. I never planned it to be so big.
There are 19206 patterns now on my site.
There are thousands of hours, in building this website, creating charts, patterns and everything else.
I am afraid I created another addiction, it's so relaxing.
The internet should be; sharing knowledge and information ( in my humble opinion).

I am a doll collector, old dolls and replicas and I like to create doll dresses.
Collecting is in my blood, so I collect lace, ribbons, buttons, fabrics, anything I can get my hands on.

I love to knit, ( that is an understatement ) I have been knitting for 40 years now, you can find free patterns elsewhere on my website.

I would not know what to do, if I could not knit anymore.

When I am shopping, I always check the sweaters in the store, to look for a nice motif or particular model.
I am always trying to get inspired, I also try to find beautiful sweaters, on the internet.

I have no patterns of designers, it is not permitted to have their patterns on my website, copyright.

For some reason, buying wool is also an addiction of me, when I passed away, I hoop not soon, my children can start a wool shop, with the stash, I have at my home.

This disease is very common among other knitting addicts, like myself. I have read many times their confessions on their website, about this phenomenon.

I have a brother chunky knitting machine, but like to knit by hand. It takes only 3 days to knit a sweater on the machine, to fast for me and I can not buy that amount of wool, every 3 days.

I would like to motivate and inspire other knitters, the variations about this subject, are unlimited.

Updating my website and taking care of all the incoming questions, takes a lot of time, if there is any time left, I like to be in the garden. Summer is only 4 months here in the Netherlands.

I do not want to sell patterns, I want to share them with other doll collectors and knitters and crocheters,
I hope you like them.

I never knitted socks, I do not have the time for it. I can hardly find the time to knit my own sweaters, sorry.

from www.trulyyours.org  in Denmark

They remind us of the second dictatorship on German soil in this century, and above all of the victims. They admonish us to take energetic action in the cause of peace, freedom and justice.

There is a big part about the 2nd world war and I was surprised, the text and photo's are explicit. It takes courage to be that honest.

In the ultra modern building of Sony

Yes, that is what they really like

Behind us is the Embassy of the United States of America, under construction.

It is next the Brandenburg Gate, on the right side.

on my 50th birthday

so now the whole neighborhood knows

I am 50 years old

thanks' children !

( she is always called Sarah )

to let everybody know, there is someone , celebrating her 50th birthday

when it is for a men, the doll is a male and they call him Abraham

What a wonderful country, a land filled with history, beauty and culture. So much nature, green and sheep’s and nice villages to shop.
Rolling moorlands, glaciated mountain areas, tongue-twisting place names, romantic castles and old mining towns.

On this site my grandfather is named, his daughter who married a Dutchman and who lives in Holland with her four children, is my mother and father, so nice to read about my grandfather and exactly how I remember him, puffing. So sad to loose your loved ones, I know, that's live.

right; caught accidentally knitting LOL
the pattern of my sweater is on the Colinette page and I am knitting the Harley Davidson sweater
for my husband, knitting pattern with chart, on the mens sweater page

The Web

Nothing we can explain,
this power of tenderness
to conquer distance, be
the strangest overcoming,

forces that bind tighter,
mysterious inter-mingling,
deeper there and deeper
until there is no Other.

We join in the creation,
weave the gossamer silk,
toughest in all Nature,
the inner lines of feeling,

pull them, draw them tight,
then let them float free,
in the deeper binding.
Nothing we can explain.

The blond one is Zoë, she died on march 10th , 2009 ( I will miss her so much ).

    
                         1988                                                          2000

Don't let these lovely pictures fool you, they are BOYS.
Please enjoy the time with your young children, time is going so terrible fast.
Wish I could turn back the clock. It is so silent at home now.

Is it the sound of other kids outside your house and the ping of the doorbell when they come calling to ask if your kid can come out to play? Is it the weariness in your voice when you answer them by saying that your little fledgling won't be back until next week and as they say "Oh" and shrug their little shoulders?

chunky knitting machine

On the 4th of may we remind and honour the soldiers who died for our freedom here in the Netherlands.
We call it Remembrance Day.
And we remember and honour, every men, women and child, who died in the Second World War.
For the Netherlands this was from 1940 to 1945.

The Netherlands has its own way of commemorating the Second World War and celebrating the country's liberation from five years of occupation. Unlike most countries, it sets aside two days to mark these events, Remembrance Day and Liberation Day.

Since the end of the Second World War, the Dutch have honoured the victims of war without large military parades. On 4th of May each year, people all over the country gather at local war memorials, and at 8pm the entire country observes a two-minute silence. All these events are broadcast live on television and radio.

At 20.00 hours sharp, we are silent for 2 minutes;
that means; we don't speak,
if you are driving a car, at that moment, you stop,
and we remember.

Is this worth while after 64 years?
I think it is and a lot of Dutch people too.

We stand still on the 4th of May, by the fact so many young men died in a foreign country, in a war they did not start and gave their lives, for people they didn't know.

Isn't that something?
Yes, it is more than you can ask from anybody and worth remembering.

Soldiers from all over the world come to remember their fellow soldiers, you can imagine what age they are now, and every year there are less and less.

A national ceremony is held in Amsterdam, with a memorial service at the historic Nieuwe Kerk in Dam Square, followed by the laying of wreaths at the foot of the national war memorial.
The Queen, members of parliament and representatives of those affected by the war all attend.

Three special wreaths are placed: one for members of the Resistance, one for victims of persecution and one for civilian casualties. A separate wreath is laid for those who fell in Asia, and another for those who lost their lives in the line of duty. The close of the ceremonies then signals the start of Liberation Day festivities, commemorating Germany's capitulation on 5 May 1945.

War veterans gather in Wageningen, where the historic documents were signed, and then parade through the city in celebration of the anniversary of liberty regained. Special Liberation Day events are organised all over the country, but two highlights include the official launch of the celebrations (held in a different part of the country each year) and the open-air concert to mark their conclusion (traditionally held on the Amstel River).

Senator Johnny Isakson made this comment after he visited the Netherlands and France in 2006;

We travelled through Europe and northern Africa paying Memorial Day tributes to the men and women buried on those foreign shores.

I have to tell my colleagues, it was a life-altering experience for me. I am a patriotic American. I love this country more than anything on the face of this Earth. I have teared up more than once at the funeral of a friend who died in the service of this country. But I have never seen the outpouring of love and respect for our country or for our servicemen than I saw in the Netherlands or in Belgium or outside of Paris or at Bellewood outside of Paris or in Tunisia at the American cemetery in northern Africa.

I think it is appropriate for us to memorialize today what those of us who travelled on this trip saw to hopefully inspire other Members of the Senate, and hopefully every American at one point in time in their life, to travel to these marvellous memorials. I have been in elected office for most of the last 30 years. I have done more Memorial Day ceremonies than one would want to count.
They have all been beautiful, they have all been meaningful; but, quite frankly, they usually aren't very well attended because Americans more often than not take Memorial Day as a 3-day vacation or a 3-day weekend. But I would like to tell you what the people of Margraten in the Netherlands take Memorial Day as.

When we went to the American cemetery in the Netherlands and saw the over 6,000 graves of the American men and women who died in liberating the Netherlands, we were moved. We were more moved by the fact that every one of those graves is adopted by a citizen of the Netherlands who cares for that grave, leaves flowers at that grave, and attends the ceremonies on Memorial Day, the American Memorial Day, which we conduct.
On that day in the Netherlands there were over 7,000 citizens--7,000 Dutch--who came to pay tribute to the men and women of the United States of America who died on their soil so they could be free. The royal Dutch Air Force did a missing man fly-over formation, and the senior men's choir of Holland sang "God Bless America." It was a moving scene unlike anything I have personally seen.
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On the 5th of May, we are celebrating the liberation by the American, the Canadian and the English soldiers in 1945. Until 1990 we celebrated the 5th of may every 5 years and from 1990 on, we celebrate it every year. Now this day is really changing to a day of looking to the future.
We have in Utrecht at noon a liberty-concert, every year.

"Real peace and real freedom, can only be there, when the fear of war will be famished from the earth, that is our greatest challenge"
Prince of the Netherlands, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld,
born June 29, 1911, died December 1, 2004