Just because he loves me, my little fibre-conscious boy gave me a love note. I received another lovely gift recently. Nigel knit a pair of socks for me in some lovely soft merino dyed by Sweet Georgia before she went
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Today is my birthday and my husband has given me a weekend with Sally Melville at the end of January!  How perfect is that?  I’m confirmed in all the workshops, even the one for which I was on the wait
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I’ve been knitting extra pairs of the Guess Who? gloves for a couple of friends of mine who are oh so deserving.  Mechelle has been a great help with photographing my designs.  I wanted to find a nice way to
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Not only has it been a long time since I’ve written and much has happened, I just lost the rather long-winded post I was working on!  The most exciting thing by far that I’ve done recently is attend the Emerald
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Testing, testing, 1,2,3!  The site has been moved to a new host and I’ve switched from holliyeoh.ca to holliyeoh.com.  I keep going back and forth on which is prefereable.  Certainly the .com is the most widely used website extention.  At
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The teachers at Devan’s school had a professional development day today so he had the day off. Naturally that meant there was no time to design or write patterns.  So instead, we spent a fun day together.  We baked some cookies and made
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In the words of a child.  As we were rushing out the door one morning a few weeks ago Devan said, “Hey, I like what you’re wearing … that knitable thing.”   Don’t you just love it?!  How well trained is
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My eyes are going.  I’ve been in denial about this for a while now.  I couldn’t really understand before when my mum would said that she could only knit with dark coloured yarn during the day with good strong light
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While on our road trip I had lots of time for knitting.  Although prone to motion sickness, I did discover that I can easily work in stocking stitch as long as I don’t need to look down much. Eloise came
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We are particularly blessed with talented fibre people in Vancouver.  We have great knitwear designers like Sivia Harding, Astor  and Carmen Craig-Martin.  Amazing technical editors like Knitty.com‘s Mandy Moore.  Technically brilliant knitting teachers like Jean Wong.  Gifted hand-painted yarn dyers like
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In preparation for a little presentation to my Guild tomorrow night, I’m going through my swatches and notes for a workshop I teach, Strategies for Knitting with Self-Patterning Sock Yarns.  Some of my favourite stitch patterns to use with self-patterning
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Not in the literal sense.  I’ve really been wanting a mindless knit.  I love knitting someone else’s designs because I don’t have to figure out stitch counts or calculate the rate of decrease for raglans or any of those things. 
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