As promised in my last post, a free pattern for this luscious lace scarf. If you find any discrepancies or inaccuracies in the pattern, please do let me know. It is written, not charted, and lends itself to different weights of yarn and needle sizes. The trickiest part of the pattern is the “knit three together” — don’t [...]
Hot off the needles is this lace scarf that is just the most amazingly indulgent angora luxury. I’ll write up the pattern in a day or two and post it here as a freebie (I’ll link to it in Ravelry, too). Meanwhile, the scarf itself is for sale on Etsy. The lace pattern is a [...]
What to do when one’s attention runs this way and that? Start a new blog, I think. So, I have. My paintings and other art are blogged about here: www.NicoleOkun.com. My travels are blogged about here: www.ArtfulVagabonds.com (have been snugly holed up for a few months, though, so no updates there for a bit). Now, [...]
Followers of Frank and my travel blog, Artful Vagabonds, know that we’re currently in Louisiana, near Saint Martinville which is on the edge of the Mississippi wetlands. Spring is making itself evident here with fields and fields of wildflowers, and blooming wisteria, azaleas and camellias. It’s wonderful to see the honey bees working the flowers [...]
Now that my life is getting more settled again, it’s time to get back to blogging. Since I last wrote, we moved out of the house and have finally hit the road in our new home. Frank and I have a travelblog set up at artfulvagabonds where we’ll put most of the travel stuff. I’ll [...]
Yesterday was the first day that the H1N1 shots were available in our area (and only for particular people, including those with chronic illnesses and the people who love them, which is how I qualified). The clinic opened at 2:30pm, so Frank, I, and Karen-who-has-no-blog (yet) figured that if we showed up a little while [...]
We’ve long been planning to sell our house, buy a fifth-wheel and travel around the States and Canada, painting and photographing to our hearts’ content. We finally took matters in hand and listed the house on Oct. 16th, and on Oct. 17th we had the house sold. Whew. Still makes my head spin! Our last [...]
Last weekend my friend Elisabeth had to deliver two llamas to a farm in Quebec’s Eastern Townships (about a four and a half hour drive from her place), so, hoping to get some photos of spectacular fall colours, I went with her. The colours weren’t at their peak yet, but the rolling hills and fields [...]
Some time ago, a friend who knows I knit gave me her late mother’s knitting needles. The needles were in a box along with a few other, presumably craft-related items. There is an old wooden-handled pattern tracing wheel, a French Ivory-handled button hook, some bodkins and sail-maker’s and glover’s needles — those things I could [...]
Every now and then, Frank (my husband) likes to set me a cooking challenge. Since I love to cook, I enjoy this a lot. Sort of Iron Chef Ottawa, without any competition. Frank buys what he figures are weird and wonderful ingredients, and I make a meal out of them. The rules are that I [...]
