I blocked my Mum’s sweater for her. She’s in town for Devan’s birthday and finished knitting the pieces to an Avery sample. I have a piece of gingham fabric on which I drew out all the pattern pieces and sizes
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Devan’s seven! It’s my little boy’s birthday today. He is my star, my light, my everything. The years are going by so quickly! We’ve been celebrating in grand style. Last weekend we had two birthday parties—a bowling party with his friends and
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Audrey sent me pictures of the Jack that she completed for a friend’s granddaughter. Charlee is so adorable in this sweater! Thank you, Audrey, for sharing. $49 (plus shipping) This pattern is only available as a kit. It is basically
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I love children’s literature and while I was pregnant, I so looked forward to reading to Devan. I wanted to share all my childhood favourites and discover new ones together. We just finished reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House in
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I’m still working on the second sock of Cat Bordhi’s pattern, Bartholomew’s Tantalizing Socks. The first sock was completed along with several other single socks for my workshop last weekend where I taught the sky sock architecture from Cat’s book,
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Yesterday we went to the Apple Festival and sampled close to 100 varieties of apples. It’s amazing just how different they taste from one another. While waiting in line for the tasting I spotted my friend Carmen. We haven’t seen
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Cat leads and interesting journey into her brilliant sock construction. I have followed her footsteps (in stocking feet, no less) up to the sky and immersed myself in her sky sock architecture. All of this in preparation for one of
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Thank you Carmen of Melonhead KnitWear for your kind words and nominating me for a blog award. What a thrill!  As an award recipient, I must follow the rules: 1. Please put the award on your blog. (done) 2. Add a link
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Two yarn shops in the United States have just started carrying my patterns. Look for my patterns at Knot Just Yarn in Burlington, WA. Becky was introduced to my patterns through one of her employees who recently completed Kieran. You can also
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I’ve been working on a nice, basic grey cardigan for the past while. I started it in the summer on one of our vacations and it’s a good mindless travel/t.v. knit. The exciting part is soon to come though. It
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Margot sent me a picture of the Guess Who? gloves she recently completed. She won the kit from me by entering her name in a draw at my tent at the Victoria Knit-Out last June. Margot writes: The model is one
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When did that happen? I just blinked and when I opened my eyes, the leaves were changing colour and falling on the ground. This is the rather pretty view down my street. Now, it’s barely fall and I found egg nog
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