Hi everyone. After years of quietly working and hinting, I’m almost ready to actually release my first book of knitting patterns. There will be a lot of info coming out over the next couple of weeks, so I’m gathering it into one place FAQ style to get us started. What is it? The title is … More Announcing: An Advent Book-Release Party
Hi everyone! Every now and again I open my blog app to find a notification that lots of people are still reading this site, and I feel a little bad because I haven’t posted anything new in a couple of months! I’m very much alive, busy as you might expect, and quite behind on posting. … More Emerging from a Cloud of Dust
Sometimes life goes according to plan, and sometimes you take left turns. Our month of June was supposed to be about finishing school, cabin visits, time with kids, and finishing my book. And it was that, for a couple weeks! Then the unexpected happened. Well, not so unexpected. We desperately wanted to get out to … More June 2025 Round-Up: Minis and Left Turns
As expected and as usual, April was an absolute whirlwind. I’ll give you a wee taster. We celebrated four birthdays. Minimighty’s (massive Hogwarts-themed spread!): Mine (lemon cake for church): Dooner’s (Barbie themed party and cake she largely made herself): and Jared’s (angel food cake): There was much cake. As the weather warms up mid-April, the … More April 2025 Round-Up: Party Party Time
Time for me to once again share with you about a sweater I made, after wearing it for a month! Photo shoots are weirdly hard to coordinate, or hard to get motivated for, especially when it’s too cold to do them outside. So yesterday, while my dogs looked on at the beautiful sunshine outside… I … More Finishing Party: Fitton’s Dynamo
Two weeks ago, I did what the kids call a “stealth drop.” Knitty released the “surprise” addendum to their winter issue, and yours truly has a pattern in it! What actually happened was, I was in the middle of a week of teaching a full-time knitting class (which was awesome!) when the pattern dropped, so … More Incurvatus
This January has Januaried really hard. It’s been routinely -35, and between kids staying home from school for Reasons and the heat being broken in the car for a week, I haven’t been outside much. I’ve tried to keep expectations low and compassion high, and that has mostly worked. In our own tired way, we’re … More January 2025 Roundup: Uh, it’s January
I have one more finished sweater to share with you from November. This is the first sweater I’ve ever knit from a kit. One year for a birthday or Christmas, I forget which, I asked my mum to get me any colourful kit from KDD, as I’m such a big fan and hadn’t tried their … More Finishing Party – Lilia’s Day
It’s time for another finishing party! I’ve been on a real sweater-knitting streak, but the outdoors is no longer sweater-photography ready. With high temperatures below -20 C, and only a few hours of daylight, it is literally unsafe! With Jared out of town last week, I decided to stop putting it off, and took some … More Finishing Party – Weekender-Metamorphic
The last big finish I’d like to share with you this week is another souvenir of my summer. But it starts earlier, with a book I received for Christmas: Knit, Fold, Pleat, Repeat by Norah Gaughan. Norah is a master of knitted fabric, and she really went to town in this book using unusual directions … More Finishing Party: Afloat
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