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Spintol.nl is veel meer dan alleen een website; het is een kijkje in mijn wereld van het maken van exclusieve houten spintollen. Elke tol is namelijk een stukje van mijn reis door het leven met PTSS – handgemaakt met liefde en zorg op mijn goede dagen en een herinnering aan mijn doorzettingsvermogen op de minder goede dagen.

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Plaatje van Athena, Turkse spintol

Athena, Turkse spintol

Gewicht: gram
Afm.:xx cm

Plaatje van Massief houten wantenblockers, per stuk

Massief houten wantenblockers, per stuk

Gewicht:100 gram
Afm.:15x30x1 cm

Plaatje van Aphrodite, Turkse spintol

Aphrodite, Turkse spintol

Gewicht: gram
Afm.:xx cm

Plaatje van Hebe, Turkse spintol

Hebe, Turkse spintol

Gewicht: gram
Afm.:xx cm

Plaatje van Massief houten sockblockers, per stuk

Massief houten sockblockers, per stuk

Gewicht: gram
Afm.:15xx cm

Plaatje van Artemis, Turkse spintol

Artemis, Turkse spintol

Gewicht: gram
Afm.:xx cm

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So, the good news… there will be a glimpse of St

So, the good news… there will be a glimpse of Studio Spintol at the upcoming Breidagen after all! At Friday the 27th, we organized a small Meet and Greet between 12 and 14.

Come over and say hi to me and Karine at the booth of my friend Liset from Schaap and Draak (8).
This isn’t a random booth… Liset will have a collection of my spindles at her booth (and website) and we will demonstrate them if you have questions.

I will stay a bit longer to chat with everyone I have missed so much while I was recovering from surgeries.

About them. I have been silent, it has been tough. Three major surgeries in four months was nothing but tough. Working hard on recovery and then being redirected back to square one when the next one was scheduled was demotivating at least.

I really don’t want to complain though. The first surgery was on my back and I am SO thankful for the surgeon performing it. Thankful that he wanted to give it a go. It is a game changer already. My daily back pain is reduced to basically non-existing.

My new hip was the last one. I’m not completely there yet. However, no need for crutches anymore. No more nerve pain in my leg. And, on some days I walk like nothing was ever wrong with my legs/hips! Promising!

The “only thing” left is my mental state. Getting back to work is harder than I expected. I’m not sure what’s causing it, but I’m struggling these last days. Struggling with my not-working-head, struggling with emotions.

I relearned how to walk, I’m sure I’ll get through this too.
See you Friday?

❤️

Happiness is in small things my friends! I found e

Happiness is in small things my friends! I found extreme happiness today in riding my bike for the first time since my hip replacement 🥰.

The feelings of freedom and thankfulness I felt are truly not to express with words. But I hope you have experienced moments like this in your life.

Please keep finding joy and happiness in small things. Embrace the things you do, it will make you happy ❤️

My trip’s haul is a fountain pen for sketching! So off I go!

I THINK I’M DOING A LOT BETTER ALREADY!

I THINK I’M DOING A LOT BETTER ALREADY!

Het lag al eventjes klaar om uit te pakken, maar i

Het lag al eventjes klaar om uit te pakken, maar ik had de puf maar niet. MOE MOE MOE was ik. Ik wist gelukkig al wél wie de afzender van dat allerleukste cadeautje was 🥰.

Omdat ik me nu écht een heel stuk beter voel (JOEPIE!), heb ik het net open gemaakt. Ik ben er zo ontzettend blij mee!!

Dankjewel lieve @alasascha, het heeft me opgevrolijkt vanaf de dag dat het op de mat viel, en vanaf nu kan ik er ook nog doorheen bladeren 😍.

Met maken van bloemen wacht ik heeeeel nog even. Babysteps… eerst even opnieuw leren lopen ;-).

Boek: bloemen haken van A la Sascha

Little update on my recovery from my new hip. Surg

Little update on my recovery from my new hip. Surgery was last Friday, and this first week I took it slow, slow and even slower than that. Just staying in and around my bed to give tissue and muscles time to heal.

This surgery was the third major surgery in four months so my body gave me signals to take it slow as well. My blood pressure has been low these past few days, but that seems to be leveling out a bit now.

The mental part of three surgeries in four months are taking a toll on me as well. Especially because this surgery, again, isn’t the last one. My other hip needs replacement too. So I just know that what I’m recovering from now, will not be the end, I have to do it all over again any time soon.

I don’t want to complain, because what doctors can do is just magic. I will walk again. And I’m even allowed to run again. As in, running as a sport.

When I was in my early twenties, I picked up running at least a hundred times. There was this podcast, Running with Evy. A from 0 to 5 km podcast with motivation and music. I can still hear her voice because I have done that podcast a million times. Every time I reached running around 4 km without a break, my hips started to hurt, and I had to stop running for a few months. I tried with PT, I tried everything.

Now I know about dysplasia, at age 45. I’m getting fixed. And after that, I will start again with Evy, and PT. But first…baby steps. Always baby steps.

Two days ago I was at the Weversmarkt, still in pa

Two days ago I was at the Weversmarkt, still in pain because of that stupid hip, and now I am at my “hotel” in Amsterdam with the most recent upgrade to my Borg Queen transformation ❤️.

Of course I tried out my new “toy” and it brought me a few steps already. The first steps of the start of my New, Improved, Better life!

Thank you SO much for all the “get well” messages, it is truly heartwarming 🥰❤️💋.

I’ll be back!

I should be asleep now because of the busy, and ex

I should be asleep now because of the busy, and exciting (!) day tomorrow. For the first time since January I’m attending a fiber and craft show/market ❤️. I skipped the spring editions because of surgery on my back in March.

This afternoon, between preparations, I had to have biab and polish removed of two fingers, because in three days, the next major surgery is scheduled. I’ll get a new (right) hip 🥰.

Preparing for a market and for a new hip at the same time is not as easy as I thought. My brain is doing overtime while I should be sleeping.
I’m really looking forward to meeting so many of you again after recovering so many months (and facing some more months).

Please, if you go to the Weversmarkt tomorrow, feel free to stop by and say hello. I will appreciate it more than ever. It is what I get my positive energy from, and I sure as hell need some of that 🙏🏻

I was able to hold off as long as possible, but wi

I was able to hold off as long as possible, but with insane increases in wood prices over the past few years and the rest of the inflation added to that… I have no other choice, I’m sorry!

As of May 1 the price per spindle will go up from €79 to €85.
I still have some spindles listed on my website and I will try to add a few more over the next days, but I have to take things step by step and day by day.

My recovery is on schedule I think, I have my ups and downs. Today and yesterday were a lot better than before, so let’s hold this line 😅.

English below! Ikzelf lig dan misschien stil, maa

English below!

Ikzelf lig dan misschien stil, maar Studio Spintol staat natuurlijk niet stil 😅. Ik ben namelijk op zoek naar een paar enthousiaste testers die iets totaal nieuws voor mij willen testen!

Kan jij amigurimi haken én spinnen, en heb je ook nog tijd en zin? Stuur me dan snel een berichtje ❤️.

Wat verwachten we van je?
- dat je de basistechnieken van het spinnen beheerst en een spintol of een spinnenwiel hebt. Een wpi-meter is ook handig (zelf maken is ook prima).
- dat je ongeveer 175 gram spinvezels hebt om voor dit project te spinnen.
- dat je over de basisbenodigdheden voor amigurumi beschikt (haaknaald, vulling, oogjes, steekmarkeerder)
- dat je mee kunt denken om dit nieuwe product te verbeteren zodat we het snel te koop kunnen aanbieden!

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I myself may be lying still, but of course Studio Spintol is not standing still 😅. I am looking for some enthusiastic testers who want to test a totally new product!

Can you spin and crochet amigurimi, and do you have the time and spirit? Then please send me a message quickly ❤️.

What do we expect from you?
- That you have mastered the basic techniques of spinning and that you have a spindle or a spinning wheel. A WPI tool is also handy (making your own is also fine).
- That you have about 175 grams of spinning fiber to spin for this project.
- that you have the basic supplies for amigurumi (crochet hook, stuffing, eyelets, stitch marker)
- that you can think along to improve this new product so we can offer it for sale soon!

#crochet #crochetersofinstagram #testcrochetersneeded

Back to doing the work for recovering. Undergoing

Back to doing the work for recovering. Undergoing surgery is much more than the actual procedure. The hard work is afterwards. You have to get back in shape and regain your condition. Of course you have to rest as well. But resting is easy. The rest is harder.
It means getting out of your bed for walks (within limits of course), doing the exercises you have to do, eating the healthy stuff and leave the rest be.
Especially when you have had two surgeries in three weeks, this is challenging. And I’m not pretending it is all easy. Today is a hard day. It all feels useless, and motivation is hard to find.

So I’m as gentle as I can be for myself. Because this IS hard and that is okay. I’m trying not to think too much about the hip surgeries that are still on the list and all the insecurities that come along with it. I just hope that in a week or two, I will be back on my feet. However that may be, with or without crutches until hip surgery, I will figure it out.
But today, I have my best buddy Pippa next to me and I feel the love of all my loved ones.

Playing with Pippa ❤️❤️❤️

Playing with Pippa ❤️❤️❤️

Being an active person as I am, and having to reco

Being an active person as I am, and having to recover from surgery can be a struggle. I wanna do so many things! One of them is knit. But honestly, it is a little bit too early, just 5 days post-op. I still try to find ways though 😇.
I’m working on my very first knitting pattern and I want it finished so I can share it with you all… I guess you have to be patient a little longer until I finished knitting the sample.

Impatient is probably my middle name 🤭.

My back surgery was only four days ago and I wante

My back surgery was only four days ago and I wanted to show you how I’m doing ❤️.
I’m very happy how recovery is going.

When it rains… it poors. I thought I was going t

When it rains… it poors. I thought I was going to see a doctor last week about a relative small procedure on my hip, but he ended up turning my world upside down by bringing me the news I have hip dysplasia on both sides.
I know… I’m pretty old to find out about that, but a lot of pieces of the puzzle fell in place.

He wanted to consult a specialist and he updated me just now. It looks like my hip is already too damaged to do a hipreconstruction for dysplasia, which leaves one final option: a total hip revision, aka a new hip.

That’s not a great long term solution at the age of 44. But I guess we’ll see how that turns out later in life 😕. Not being able to walk now sucks just as much. Or worse maybe.

So… I’ll still be back, one way or another… but most likely as Borg queen.

For all the new followers, and for everyone with t

For all the new followers, and for everyone with the same shitty memory I have, I thought it was a good idea to (re)introduce myself again.

I am Bregje, 44 years old and I am based in the Netherlands. I started to crochet somewhere in 2009, knitting around 2013 and spinning not much later.
For some reason I just love learning new skills… (inventing time is still on my list though 😅) which resulted in spindle making in 2019.

In the picture you also see my PTSD service dog Pippa, and she is the best that ever happened to me. She literally changed my world after hitting rock bottom.

We make a good team and with her on my side the world is full of opportunities again, full of love and life and friendly faces.
I connect with people again and… I started to dream again.

I went to H+H because of these dreams, the ideas and the route I have for Studio Spintol for the next few years. I can see and smell where we are going to, but I am taking baby steps. One at the time.

For the next few months however, I won’t be taking any steps in that direction at all. The only steps will be walking into a hospital to undergo major back surgery next Thursday.

I will be back… and I will continue plotting and scheming from my bed ❤️

Oh wait, I forgot an important thingy! The webshop will not close, orders still go out pretty much as normal, a very special person is taking care of all of that for me ❤️❤️❤️.

@hhcologne was much more than I hoped it to be ❤

@hhcologne was much more than I hoped it to be ❤️.
I loved every minute of my visit. I loved the exhibitors, the yarns, but most of all… the people! Thank you all for being your-amazing-selves!

I’m all about connecting with people and I can sure tell you that bringing a service dog to a show helps a lot making connections, she is a real people magnet 🤭.

Lots of Pippa DNA will spread over the world in the next few days when everyone is returning home.

I forgot to take pictures, but luckily others have ❤️.

You might have noticed I've been a bit quiet on so

You might have noticed I've been a bit quiet on social media. I'm still around, scheming and plotting, but also taking a bit of a break.

In a few days (or maybe a week), I'll share more about what's been going on. But in the meantime...

I wanted to share some good news: our huge sale is happening now! If you're subscribed to our newsletter, you've already heard about this before anyone else. If you're not subscribed, just head over to our website ;-).

Oops, got a little distracted!

We're offering nothing less than a 30% discount on all yarn at FoxyFibers.nl if you buy a minimum of 3 skeins. You can mix yarn bases to get the discount ❤️. The discount will be automatically applied at checkout.

Happy shopping ❤️

#indiedyedyarn #handdyedfiber #studiospintol #wool .
#handspunyarn #spinners #yarnaddiction
#knitting #knittinginstagram #knittersofinstagram #crochet #crochetersofinstagram #knitstagram #knitknitknit

We still have a little infirmary over here. This t

We still have a little infirmary over here. This time it’s little Pippa’s turn.
Most likely she has a cold water tail (again), which is causing her tremendous pain.

Although she has had painkillers, she still is in pain and wants nothing else than to sleep on my lap.

So here we are, just the two of us, glued together as always. But now it is my time to help her for a change ;-).

Het is geen geheim dat Studio Spintol geheel draai

Het is geen geheim dat Studio Spintol geheel draait op een team van vrijwilligers. Afgelopen zomer heeft er in de Landleven een uitgebreid artikel gestaan over ons, over wat we maken en over ons sociale aspect.

Ik ben Studio Spintol namelijk begonnen (en dat is morgen precies 4 jaar geleden!) om voor mezelf een veilige werkomgeving te maken waarin ik me kon ontwikkelen en op een voor mij veilige en fijne manier toch in het midden van het leven en letterlijk tussen de mensen kon gaan staan.

We staan met ons team al een paar jaar op de grootste beurzen van Nederland. En daar is een groot team voor nodig.

Voor de komende Handwerkbeurs (11-14 januari) in Houten zoeken we daarom voor met name de donderdag en vrijdag (en met iets minder noodzaak voor zaterdag), mensen die ons team op vrijwillige basis willen komen versterken.

We zoeken mensen die kunnen spinnen en bij een spinworkshop willen ondersteunen. Dat betekent: begeleiding geven als er ná de introductie en instructies, gesponnen wordt. Je helpt maximaal 2 mensen tegelijk en je doet maximaal 2 workshops per dag.

En we hebben koekjes ❤️

Interesse? Vragen?
Stuur me een berichtje!

Pip is the best pillow in the world - warm, loving

Pip is the best pillow in the world - warm, loving, supportive and always around whenever I wanna nap.

She lets my head lie on her for an hour or longer if I need it ❤️.

We all need a Pip, don’t we?

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