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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 …

We made it (despite Mother Nature’s best efforts) to Halifax yesterday. Snow, rain, sleet…we made it through it all. We’re pretty busy while here so I don’t think there will be a lot of actually blogging but you can either follow my tweets which are pretty regular or just …

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 …

I was knitting away on a project and found a factory knot in the wool. Then another. Then a pull. I switched to another ball, same thing. Hrumph. I wound off the remaining 7 skeins and amazingly had between 1-4 knots and pulls per skein. No skein was without a problem. I have written to […]