Leo is my mail delivery guy. Leo drives an old blue van with a post office sign on the top and mutters a bit about getting in and out of it to bring packages to my door (yay rural mail delivery!). I’m sure Leo must think that I’m running some sort of secret and evil [...]
It’s so windy today that even though it’s not that cold, it feels chilly and biting out there. One of the things I love about winter in Ontario is that the weather just requires fabulous knit things!
This is a simple pattern with eye-of-partridge heels for thicker socks, like boot socks or house socks. For variety, [...]
The waves scarf is a quick knit and easy to do. I tried doing cables without a cable needle for the first time with this pattern, and it worked really well. In case you don’t know how to do that, there’s a link to a tutorial in the pattern .pdf.
My wishes for peace, prosperity and [...]
Over the last few days I have been knitting the scarf shown here, rather than the stole and socks mentioned in my previous post. It will be a Christmas gift to someone who sometimes reads here, so it’s a bit of a secret, still. Once it’s done blocking I’ll take a proper photo of it [...]
These are some of the yarns I’ve been dyeing lately (all sock yarn except for the middle bottom one, which is lace-weight mohair). I really enjoy the blending and mixing and combining of colours, and then seeing (if I keep the yarn for myself) how they look when knit up. Each of these skeins is [...]
We’ve just had the first biggish snowfall of the season, somewhere between 20 and 30 cm (that would be 8 to 12 inches). Since I didn’t have to drive anywhere and wasn’t waiting for a bus (transit’s on strike at the moment, anyway), I quite enjoyed the weather. It was a bit of a slog [...]
Looking out the window and seeing the first snows of the season has me all inspired, so I’ve been working on some snow-scapes lately. I’m exploring using painting knives as well as brushes and keeping the size small (5 x 7″ for these two) makes it possible to do more paintings in a shorter time [...]
