I can’t believe these have been on the needles for almost a year. Nothing overly complicated about them, just kept getting put aside for bright shiny projects (ie…cashmere….)
I love the way the pooling turned into barber poles. Not quite matching, but at least similar enough to look like a design …
I thought this was a perfect piece to share on Earth Day. If I had known of the tie in to math and crochet in high school I would have paid much more attention!
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I’ve been gallivanting around the province for the last two weeks. First stop St. Catharines to visit Keziah and her family for Easter.
While there, I delivered a comfortghan from Heartmade Blessings which was done for the widow of Warrant Officer Brown. Keziah’s brother will deliver this on our behalf. I …
I’ve been working horrendous hours (again) so my knitting time has been limited to the odd stitch while waiting for the coffee to brew in the morning. So needless to say I don’t have a lot of evidence of process. I have been designing in my insomnia-riddled sleep, …
I am happy to close the loop (pardon the pun) on my saga of the knotty wool.
I have been in contact many times this week with the farm and they have given me permission to publish their name. Out of respect for them, I waited until I had their permission. …
The mercury dipped down to -18C again this weekend and we’re in the path for another ice/snow storm, so with tongue planted firmly in cheek I thought I’d share:
The Official Canadian Temperature Conversion Chart
Last night I had to rip out 8 rows x 200 stitches on a cabled sweater because I had crossed one of the cables the wrong way. I tried to drop down stitches to fix it but it became an unholy mess and I decided to just frog instead. I …
I got in contact with the supplier of the faulty wool today and they were absolutely horrified. We’ve all come to the conclusion that it was a bad run at the mill and they are replacing every single ball for me. I’m only asking them to replace 7 because I …
