My Kingdom for an iPod
I’m working up a series of designs in Tunisian crochet to package into a book and sell (gotta pay for the stash somehow). From Crochet From Crochet Here’s the first in a series of little bags – it’s for an iPod. Whaddya think? I haven’t blocked it yet so it’s a bit lopsided. I don’t […]
There’s no place like home
Well we’re home from our trip to Nova Scotia. We visited with Rick’s mom and had a very (although brief) nice time. The trip there and back on the other hand…well here’s what happened: The trip was the scariest thing I’ve ever done. We left Tuesday @ 3pm in freezing rain (30 accidents in a […]
Toasty Toe
I know it should be toes, but I only have one sock knit, so I have a toasty toe. I have recently become enamoured again with sock knitting. It’s mindless, portable and practical. And reasonably inexpensive. $15 will give you hours of knitting pleasure. From Knit I bought this wool at my favourite Toronto knitting […]
Happy New Year!
The options were 1) Go out with a bunch of drunks or 2) freeze my nether parts off at an outdoors celebration with thousands of people I don’t know and likely wouldn’t want to be near at any other time of the year or 3) stay home and knit. d’uh no choice was there? While […]
Road Trip!
My good friend Pirkko (in the orange sweater) and I made a trek through the snow today to Lens Mills in Cambridge. It was snowing quite heavily en route, and despite a few wrong turns (as is the tradition when we go there), Pirkko’s wonderful husband Hector navigated beautifully while Pirkko and I nattered on […]