Dear Amanda, I know I write more Birthday Blogs to you than I do almost anybody else, but the truth is that your birthday has always been a pretty big deal to me. 23 years ago today you were born, an...
I had a lovely time up in North Bay this weekend, and if you get up that way, you should totally go to Stix and Stones - the owners got great taste, and the Fleece Artist selection would be hard to b...
I started writing a really long post this morning, then just now glanced at the time and realized that I cant be writing right now, because I have to leave for North Bay in about twenty minutes and t...
I love knitting. I think Ive probably mentioned that at some point on this blog. I really love knitting. I like all sorts of things about it. I like how ridiculously cool it is to use such incredibly...
Little Lous sweater was dry and done this morning, and so I packed off to deliver it to him. I know everyone will want to know what pattern it is, and I cant help you there. This whole sweater was bu...
Todays Victoria day here in Canada - the reigning monarchs official birthday (no matter when their actual birthday is) and the unofficial start to summer. Its the traditional weekend to open cottages...
I think I mentioned that Im knitting little Lou a little sweater. His mum Katie knits a bit, and has a great appreciation for the hand-knits bestowed upon the guy. He had a good cache of sweaters goi...
Wingspan is done, and I like it a lot - I might not like it for me, but I really, really like it.Its got everything going for it. Its a quick knit, simple, but with an interesting construction. Perfe...
Yesterdays day off seems to have sort of been what I needed. Ive still got a bit of a stuffy nose and cough, but Ive turned a corner for sure, because its clear that Im going to live, and I dont mind...
I got up this morning and staggered downstairs, making only a minor attempt to cough up my right lung as I did so - which is a considerable improvement in my health, so I put in a load of laundry and...
Im finding it really hard to blog this week, but Im going to try and do better. Im travelling and teaching, driving my car around Lake Erie. So far it seems a lot like sleep, drive, teach, drive, sle...
I know its hard for you, to be Auntie Kelly and to be so far away from little Lou, so thats part of the reason I wasnt really totally pissed when you dropped off a basket of baby sweater chunks (with...
As we were weaving in all the loose ends from our colour retreat last November, we started throwing around ideas for future retreats, what would be different, what would be fun. We were looking at so...
1. If you teach your kids to knit, someday when they are 20 years old and they move you will experience the irony of having to carry their stash. 2. Megan labels boxes in a really great way. 3. Im gi...
Im about to tell you that Ive had a stressful few days - and anyone out there panics and worries, let me assure you that this is stress that is well within the range of normal for human beings, and t...
You know that thing where you rip some piece of knitting back, and you wrap the yarn you have to re-use around the ball - and then you start re-knitting, and keep knitting, and keep knitting and your...
A wonderful time was had here at camp, although an unexpected virus ripped through a very great number of campers. Tentatively called WWJK - or "What Would Josie Knit" it appears to have be...
Sure as rain, last night I finished those socks I was working on all day. Theres nothing like a whole day of travel to rack up the knitting time.Yarn: Berroco Sox, colour 1440, 2.25mm needles Patter...
Toronto to Vancouver, five hours, and I know how to amuse myself.I knit in the cab to the airport.I knit while I watched a movie. (Mission Impossible nineteen, or whatever.)I knit while I watched a ...
Im just poking my head in here, since to say Im swamped would be an understatement. I got up this morning, wrote my to-do list, and then had a little bit of a hysterical giggle and about 8 cups of c...
I have an inner knitter. Im sure you do to. Its the part of every knitter that has a pure and unreasonable love for knitting and yarn, but, unlike the rest of you, lacks any sort of maturity when i...
Ive been at this fibre arts gig long enough to tell you a few people I dont argue with anymore. If Judith MacKenzie tells me something about how my wheel works , I dont argue. If Lisa Kobeck tells m...
The sun is shining brightly today, its Easter Monday, and everyone has the day off. Joes reading the paper on the couch, all three girls are bumming around, joking, cooking, dancing and singing to M...
Definitely a little bit louder. Well see if its worse.
I finished the Baby Venus sweater yesterday, and it did indeed turn out that if you follow the instructions (thats a ProTip. My gift to you) its a remarkably quick, fun sweater.The grafting is fun, t...
So heres a thing. I love rules. I adore them. I find a special and deep comfort in being the person making the rules and plans for those around me, but I also mostly dont mind being someone who ha...
After a rather wild ride last week (that ended with an emergency city crew still here ripping up our street at 11pm Thursday night - I am sure we are absolutely beloved by our neighbours right now) w...
A while ago the City of Toronto came to our house to install a water meter. The guy went down into the basement, took one look at what we thought was an old but serviceable water pipe and he said n...
Upstairs in the stash room I had this roving. It was a long piece of BFL-mix roving from Blue Moon (the colourway is ST-1) and because of how it was dyed, it had repeats. I pulled it apart into those...
I tell you, one thing about weaving that I love (there are many, but today this is at the top of the list) mercy me, it is fast. Ridiculously fast. You can get really obsessed with an idea for a we...
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