Merry Christmas to all. Gord and I are in Canada for the holidays.
We’re currently in Nottawa, ON staying with Gord’s parents. We opened our gifts on Christmas eve and today we spent in Orillia, ON visiting Gord’s grandmother and his Aunt Leigh and her family. Leigh has young kids who kept us […]
Its raining outside today. Which makes for an unpleasant inside experience as there is no sun to warm up the rooms. Its 58 inside right now. The boiler usually comes on around 12am or 1am so I crank it as long as I can before I go to sleep so I have […]
Hoorah, I finished seaming my Rogue Hoodie last night very early this morning. Its all done now (well, the hood could use a re-blocking, but I don’t want to bother with it right now) and its been on me all day.
Here is me outside the school - today was a super nice day […]
This past Saturday, Gord and I drove into Kansas City to attend Julie & Louis’ baby shower (mama-to-be is absolutely glowing). In addition to some Babies-R-Us stuff (no B-R-Us in Topeka - how weird is that!), I knit up a baby bonnet and some booties. Baby stuff is so much fun to make […]
I finished my very first pair of hand-knit socks yesterday evening.
From this (Knit Picks Bare Fingering Weight Wool):
To this (Yarn dyed during Yarn School):
To this:
The pattern I used is the “Rib and Cable Socks” by Nancy Bush from Interweave Knits Fall 2005. I picked this pattern because it was the only sock pattern I […]
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