Sometimes it takes a couple of days of searing heat to make me appreciate a good rain shower. I rained on Friday. It’s Sunday now, and we’re just wishing that the sky would open up and cool things down. You have absolutely no idea how glad we are that the guys who built our house […]
I kept meaning to post about last weekend’s hijinks, but got sidetracked. I’m now on a rotating shift schedule at work, and it messes with my ability to organize my posts. Either way, just in time for the new weekend, I bring you my adventures LAST weekend! We started off by driving down to the […]
I meant to blog this sooner, but the weather wasn’t on my side. For really nice photos, I like to have a goodly amount of natural light. The past couple of days? Rain. Either way, this little gem arrived in our Superbox sometime on the weekend or very slightly prior to that (when we wouldn’t […]
Last week I mentioned the socks that I’m designing. I got a little farther along and have decided to take a little rest to decide where to go from here. You see, I love the texture, but it takes a little longer knit. I’m also a little worried about whether I will warp the fabric […]
I finished up the Catnip Socks this week. It didn’t take very long. They’re a great knit. I delivered the MIL’s Socks that I knit back in February to my mother for her (belated) birthday gift. We rode down on our bicycles. Proof that Mum reads the blog? “I really like the butter-coloured socks you’re […]
It hardly feels like it’s been almost two weeks since I started these. It feels like they’ve been going faster than lightning, but maybe that’s just because I’m doing them both at the same time and the colour is so happyshiny that I don’t necessarily want them to end. Well, I obviously want them to […]
Today Calgary City Council passed the proposed Bike Plan, that will hopefully help get more riders on their bikes, off the sidewalk, and on the streets. While it seemed that three of the aldermen thought it was a waste of time (the alderman for our ward was one of them…disappointing), I was pleased to see […]
I think there’s a reason why Wendy Johnson named this particular pattern “Catnip”. I went looking for the July 2011 sock pattern for the Skinflint Sock Club (no idea if anyone is still following along, but I’m putting the choices up anyhow, at least until I can get back to podcasting). I came across quite […]
Working on the Gush socks (pattern by Yarnissima)…Starting on clue #4. I have to admit that while I was excited to get started, I’ll be happy to see the end of this pair. The yarn is a little *too* “wool-y” for this time of year, and the knit & purl pattern is somewhat fiddly. I’m […]
Amazingly enough, I actually have a couple of quick pictures to show! Yay! I’m surprised, what with a very busy vacation and then schedule crazies at work, but I’ll take my resource photos where I can get ’em. It doesn’t look like much of anything, but that’s because this is a sorta cast-on picture. I’ve […]