a last post

i've decided to close this blog. keeping it has been a wonderful experience for me. at the moment i can't keep up with all the things i want to in life so i've found myself giving away or pairing...

Sound of Waves shawl finished

yesterday i finished the Sound of Waves shawl for my mother. it feels airy and soft but also warm - like a cloud. the perfect shawl or wrap for keeping my mother's shoulders warm as she reads in...

miura cowl finished

last week i finished the Miura Cowl. i cast on 133 stitches for 7 pattern repeats. i like a longer, narrower cowl so could have cast on for 6 pattern repeats instead. it's been a long time since...

this is a small section of the road i drive to work. the drive takes 45 minutes each way and a good portion of the road is like this. on the way i'll climb one mountain pass and go by 5 lakes. for...

starting again

developed the 3rd roll with the Zero Image pinhole camera yesterday. this is an intentional double exposure with also a frame overlap. i feel like every new camera i've had required bags of...

on the subject of knitting, my mother loves the swatch for the Sound of Waves wrap by Kieran Foley so i've cast this on. the rows are 327 stitches long and i'm a slow knitter so a row can take me...

knitting next

i had and idea for a sweater for myself and made a few swatches but nothing felt right so i've abandoned this idea. part of the problem with knitting much for myself is this is my first winter in...

socks finished

this week i finished the Riff socks i started last spring for my husband. they're already in use and he says he likes them. half way through knitting these i read that knitting socks at a tighter...

almost finished

i say almost because i'm only half done the belt for this adaptation of a Shiri Mori sweater for my daughter. i hope she'll like the sweater. because i'd changed the stitch patterns and a bit of...

update

i'm in the midst of some changes but knitting is still happening. right now mostly gift knitting. still fulfilling promises - although i have tons of ideas for things i'd like to knit myself. soon...

Ardent Jacket finished

i love it! super lightweight but also very warm. you can see i still can't stand taking photos of myself. i used 2 strands of Habu merino for this and one strand of Habu bamboo. that's really...

noticed

It's been a long time since I've done a noticed post. Partly because I haven't seen many runway or fashion magazine knits lately that I've been inspired by. But Tanya Alpert (author of Haiku Knits)...

Connors Sweater

Now that it's finished (except for the zipper) I'm happy with how it turned out. Details on this: It's Norah Gaughan's Pentagon Aran Cardigan from her book Knitting Nature. Knit with Licorice Twist...

change in approach

there's knitting talk at the end of this post. do you mind if i show you 2 photos from the final project in my Photo Arts 3 class first? this is Kelly - a young woman who sometimes models for me. i...

wrist pain, dye consistency and other knitting challenges

Usually in October I post my Year of Knitting photo but not this year. Partly because I haven't knit much this year and partly because most of what I have knit has been happily gifted. Instead of...

return to knitting

At the beginning of the summer I thought gosh could this be the summer I knit not much more than a pair of socks? Sure enough. My hands were very busy this summer ... but just not with knitting...

why didnt i knit 10 tweed sweaters?

Where are the correct sweaters when I need them? And why didn't knit 10 tweed sweaters last winter? I'm spending the summer on the north end Vancouver Island again and the summer climate here is...

Gossamer Stars Wrap

So far 2010 is going down as my least productive knitting year. It's mid June and this Gossamer Stars Wrap is my second finished knit of the year. At this rate I could end up with only 4 or 5...

Ardent Jacket progress

Thought I'd provide a progress photo on the Ardent Jacket.I'm knitting both sleeves at the same time on separate circular needles. I've finished the Trellis pattern on both sleeves and it wasn't...

return

A long absence I know. I was taking a 4 month Photo Arts course. Between my job and the course there wasn't time for much else. Most weeks knitting, blogs and even e-mail fell by the wayside. But...

lion cowl finished

I decided to call it my Lion Cowl because the yarn is Aslan Trends Invernal - Aslan was the lion's name in the Narnia series - and the cowl does feel like a bit of lion's mane. It turned out huge....

year end thoughts

No knitting photograph with this post. Some knitting/creating talk. Mostly this is a post where I think some year-end thoughts out loud. Order might be a bit jumbled. I've been putting things away...

kindness

A few days ago Gay did a post on teaching her grandson the joy of giving at Christmas. If you haven't already read it I think you'll find it very tender. As someone else who was a recipient of...

a year of knitting

It's a year and 2 months of knitting because I'm late with this post.I thought I was having not-the-greatest-knitting-year but when I put it all together for this post it didn't look half bad....

mr and mrs mouse finished

I'm in finished mode at the moment. Maybe it's that the year is rapidly closing. Also finished this week are Mr. and Mrs. Mouse for the upcoming grandbaby. Once again the photograph is fuzzy -...

finally finished!

Finally some finished knitting so show. Although the photographs are out of focus as I've yet to figure out how to combine auto focus and the self timer in an effective manner. The yoked cardigan...

meeting Kat and Felix

I was almost as nervous as I would be going on a blind date. But I was in southern California for two weeks and asked Kat Coyle if she would like to meet. She drove down from LA to see me and we...