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I had some other things I was going to work on today.  However, there are a few things that I need to get out first so you get a blog post. Dave MacDonald is running for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PCPO) in Kitchener Centre.  Dave was a weather man for the local CTV station for a number of years. He is not a meterologist, but after talking about the weather for 40 years, you

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There once was a boy who loved bugs and crawlies of all sorts.  He was always careful with animals, treating them gently. His mother noticed this love of animals and asked him what animal he would like her to knit him.  He quickly chose a caterpillar, and the mother agreed to make one.  The caterpillar was given the name of Zoup. The boy took great care of Zoup, taking him everywhere.  

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Last night at the December meeting of the KWKG, Sally Melville spoke about "Why we knit".  It was a great talk for a number of reasons, but what kept ruminating in my mind is her saying "Honour the craft".  That got tied into some other knitting thoughts that have been tumbling around in my head. There was a thread on Ravelry that discussed knitting being functional.  There was one poster who

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Who it was March since my last post.  Whoops, time did fly this summer. I finished the Honeybee Stole - designed by Anne Hanson This was a great knit, and it did fly along when I was actually knitting it - it got put aside for other projects quite often.  The yarn has a story behind it which starts with my first (and only) foray into natural dyeing, followed by overdyeing with green acid dye. 

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I know the Olympics were on a month ago and that is when everyone was talking about the Ravelympics, well I have been busy and I haven't been posting much. ( That is my story and I am sticking with it.)  One of my ravelympics project was the Damson shawl. (Seen here checking out our Olympic inukshuk)This is from Ysolda Tegue's Whimisical Little Knits 2 book that I discussed back in January - (you

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I last left this blog with a mention (okay maybe it was a post) on how I was taking a weaving class.  Well that class ended a month ago, so maybe it is time I showed you some pics. We had warped the loom with enough yarn for samples and a 60" scarf.  The first classes were trying different samples and techniques and the last 3 classes (which I missed one) was to weave the scarf. After doing

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As some of you may know I have started taking a weaving class at the KW Weavers and Spinners Guild.  I have wanted to learn to weave for awhile now, and I finally took this opportunity to take the class - Weaving 1. We are weaving on Leclerc table top looms - well that should be will be weaving.  Last nights class brought us to having threaded the warp. We will be doing some samples of

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For Christmas I received signed copies of Whimsical Little Knits and WLK Two. My sister went to Scotland and a knit and chat, solely to get me a great Christmas present.  What, .. that was not her only reason?  Please let me live in my land of denial. Ysolda Teague self published these books and they are of high quality. The lay out is superb.  The index has thumbnails of the projects. Charts are

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I went to the Woodstock Fleece Festival back in October, and I got a beautiful Hand Maiden sock kit.  The vendors, Grand River Yarns, had demo knit up into a couple of scarves.  I loved it, and decided to get a kit to the do the same. The kit consisted of Merino 2/6 sock (325m 115g) and Angel Hair (70%Kid Mohair 30% nylon, 400m / 50g) dyed together.  One of those scarves is another Christmas

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Before all the Christmas knitting gets given away, and I forget all those little details, I really should write some blog posts. First up - a pair of socks I don't think I would use this yarn Louet Gems sport again for socks although it is beautiful, and the colours are rich.  I just think it it as tad to heavy for normal socks. That being said let me present to you the Whitby Socks Yarn: Louet

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Just a quick post about a pair of socks that I have finished I had some rainbow sock yarn that was purchased in the summer, and I needed a pattern that would do those colours justice.  I remembered that I had sock pattern designed for this - Crusoe Socks.  I looked over the pattern, it called for KPPPM with a cast on of 44 stitches.  I read again, and a second time.  There is no way I am knitting

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Some people like how multicoloured yarn pools (or stacks), other people detest it and avoid yarns that would tend to do this. I am in the middle - a little bit of pooling on a garment is fine but when it gets too much it drives me crazy.So when I started the MinO jacket and had knit a couple of inches, I noticed the pooling and decided that I would do something to minimize this. The most common

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I was going to write a post about the new sweater I am knitting for NB - MinO- which I have been loving. However, last night as I was working on another project I ran into a problem. So my dear readers you get some of my musings.First the players:The Yarn : Louet Gems Sport. 2 skeins of 100g/225 yrds merino, ball band gauge 22-24 sts/4"The Intended: Christmas present for my SILSome

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I am not done all of my catching up yet, but thought I would pause here to post about a recent FO.Pompa by Ann HansonThis is a quick lace knit. The pattern is very intuitive and is easy to memorize. The result though is lovely. The columns of bars are created with YOs, instead of dropped stitches as in Clapotis, so if your yarn is sticky(mohair anyone) it won't be a problem.The yarn I used is

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Just a quick post to show a recent picture of NB in his Tomten jacket.He was not in the mood to stay still.

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It is hard to write a dishcloth project up into a blog post but here it goes. Evelyn Clark, the designer of the Flower Basket shawl, designed a dishcloth pattern with a greyhound on it, a few days after seeing the pattern, a request went out for donations for a Greyhound raffle fundraiser. I of course put the two together and volunteered to knit some for charity.I downloaded the pattern, looked

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So after I posted the finished socks last week, I thought I should update my side bar with the information that I was currently working on. I realized that those three items listed as my WIP were finished and I didn't even mention they were done, they had been done for so long.First up,Tomten Jacket by EZ. This jacket is part of what made EZ such a great designer. I finished this jacket back in

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So to finish playing catch up on finished socks .In June I wanted you to use some of my Sockotta yarn to knit socks, this would be vacation/beach knitting and working on wool in July was not on my list as good plans (as it turns out I could have done it for most of this July).In the skein this yarn I didn't think it was very busy so I choose Cachoeira from Knitty as a pattern. It had been on my

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I thought I would take a break from my list of FO to show you some of the lovelies that came my way over the summer.First up, there was a "yard sale" that I attended that just to pare down Heather's stash. I came back with Shelridge Farms Ultra Handpaint - enough for 3 pairs of socks, 3 skeins of Noro Cash Iroha, Fleece Artist merino sock yarn, and some novelty fluff that can will make some nice

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Just not blogging.I was remarking to Sarah that I really should write a blog post, and she commented that I did have lots of finished items to share.That is true,Bianca is done, - I ended up going with the dark brown buttons.Inset socks - doneDad's Diamonds -doneSerenity socks -doneCoalicheria socks - doneGreyhound dishcloths - six done for charitySlinky ribs - almost done buttons, blocking and

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I have two items that can almost be crossed off the WIP list - except that they need some sort of closure.The Bianca jacket has not had anything done to it in the last month except some flirtations with buttons.While I was knitting this project I was thinking some nice wood buttons. When the time came to pick out the buttons though - wood looked out of place. Pewter and mother of pearl buttons

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On Friday the Ontario Today show on CBC had an owner of a toy store discussing some games that would be good for the family during March Break. One caller mentioned BoardGameGeek.com as a resource for different games. I know I have a few readers that are gamers, so I have devised this meme from the BGG top 100 games. I won't tag people but drop me a comment if you do this meme on your blog or

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During one of my recent online meanderings I found this Canada Art Shop Directory. I think it may be a good place to pick up some future gifts.

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I was thinking about my knitting projects yesterday and it turns out that I am in a silk mood. I never thought that when I started knitting that I would have four projects utilizing silk being worked on at once (well almost at once) .Bianca jacket - Just to give a quick update on this project. I thought I didn't have enough yarn (again!), but with some calculations I found out the swatch (14 g)

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I just heard about the Woodstock Fleece Festival happening for the first time this October. It looks like it has great potential, and so close to home too.

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When Shall We Knit had their annual sale a couple of weeks ago, I picked up several balls of Naturally Merino et Soie, a New Zealand DK yarn. I had a couple of projects in mind for this purchase. The first being a pair of socks for Ali.From A house made of woolThis is the slip stich ribbed pattern from Sensational Knitted Socks. I knitted these socks using the 2 socks 2 circs method. I

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Jenni wanted clarification of my plan. So here it goes:Knit the lace section at a smaller gaugeCut out one repeat around a cuffRemove the extra repeat I added at necklineI haven't finished knitting the sleeves yet. When you are working on the 3 and 4th sleeves they go much slower than the second sleeve. I think this picture shows the results of items 1 and 2 aboveFrom A house made of woolI

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Jenni had wanted to know about seeing the finished Bianca Jacket. Last week I would have said it should be done for March. I was hoping that I would be able to complete the jacket this week.From A house made of woolHowever, the jacket did not want to go that smoothly. In the above photo I had 14 rows of the second chart left to do on the yoke as well as a garter band down the fronts and along the

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Over Christmas I started thinking about knitting the February Ladies Sweater with the Estelle Silk that I purchased at the Knitters Fair. When I purchased this yarn, I thought that I was buying 9 balls but as I can't count or read when overcome with yarn fumes there was only 8 in the bag. (This is totally my fault the bag was clearly marked when I looked at my purchases at home).I had already

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I wasn't sure if I had blogged these socks before, I couldn't recall writing about them. A check of the archives (March) has a mention that I did some knitting with the following photo (dated Feb 28). The socks are the Riverbed Socks byCat Bordhi.I finished the one sock and then finished the pair of Hedera socks (and that took months) before starting the second sock. I was just glad that I

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Unless you are blind, you will see that I upgraded the template that I used. The previous template that I had been using was not compatible with the new blogger (with widgets and xml tags). Every now and then I would try to upgrade the template with no success, I would then look at the templates on offer and play around with those. I was never happy with the outcome. The other day though I

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This year was a slow year for me in finishing items. Although I did have a baby which is a huge undertaking.Here is the list of finished items for the past year.Bird in Hand Mittens Baby Surprise Jacket Soft Cardi Top Down Baby Raglan Hedera Socks Woolly Thoughts Baby Blanket Basic Ribbed Hat Foliage HatStriped CardiganFamily Christmas StockingsAlthough the last two

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In an attempt to keep you blog readers on your toes I thought I would discuss the sideways cardigan.This cardigan started after last years Knitters Fair, to provide me a with a cardigan that was versatile. The idea when I went to the fair was a basic grey cardigan, that however changed when I saw this Silk Garden yarn. I purchased the yarn and figured the pattern would be decided later.After

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An almost too small Baby Surprise Jacket on a one month oldand a sock puppet.Details:Yarn: Leftovers of Soy wool stripes and Patons Kroy sock yarnPattern: Skacel Collection Sock Puppet - Bird 1Needles: 3.5 mm and 4.5 mmWhat you can't see in the above photo is the tail (located on the heel). These puppets are for babies not yet walking.This pattern pamphlet has a bunch of cute puppets to make. I

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or Part 3 in my series of trying to catch up on my current knitting.I had two balls of Lana Gatto Baby Soft in my stash that were just begging to be knit up. This is soft yarn and these were colours were muted. The first ball was chosen as a hat for Ali.This is a simple 1x1 ribbed hat, it took me three attempts to get cast on number/needle size correct for his hat. As I was knitting along and

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In my on going challenge to get some FO blogged, I present finished Hedera Socks. You may not remember but I originally blogged about these socks back in February when I had finished the first one. The second sock slowly languished until the beginning of October when I finally finsihed the second one. After proudly finishing the socks it took until this past weekend for me to finally

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I am going to try and get caught up with posting some FO and progress shots this week. We will see how that goes, it is great to have goals, it is another to finish them.Back in June I started a baby blanket out of Rowan Cotton Rope. It went with me on the trip to the Dominican, where the modular nature made it great for beach knitting. In September I put a push on to get the squares done. I

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Just a quick note to let you know baby has arrived and we are home and doing well. Details can be found here.

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I stayed up late last night (well late for a pregnant woman) to watch the election results. I was not happy, then when I woke up to go to the bathroom I couldn't get back to sleep since I was so pissed off at Canadians.Dr Steph sums it up the best here In 2004, Canadians made fun of Americans for re electing Bush. The first time in 2000 it was a mistake- voter fraud, supreme court intervention

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Before the weeks get away from me I thought I would show you two completed baby sweaters.First up is the soft cardi which I mentioned in this post that I couldn't find the buttons. The buttons were found in a random drawer and have been attached. I don't like where I put the button holes, and decided to improvise them.There does seem to be a problem with how the front lines up though. I have

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We interrupt this knitting blog for the following rant. It is about the Canadian election if you are not interested please feel free to skip.The Conservative Party has not released a platform. I have asked them from a link on their website what their platform is, I haven't heard back. Harper has said he will announce policy on Oct 15 (the day after the election). What the hell good does that

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This was an impulse buy.Well as much as an impulse as seeing something deciding you want it, putting it back and saying if it is still here when I finish wandering this room then I will get it is. It is 8 balls of Estelle 100% silk in a beige. Now when I decided to get it, I thought there was 9 balls in the bag which I figured would easily make a cardigan. I got home and had it on the coffee

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I have been thinking lately of some upcoming projects to work on this fall. As Jenni mentioned the fall is going to be hectic (and that I should get buttons).Before I get into what I want to knit and possible patterns, I should come clean on what is on my needles that needs to be finished.Hedera socks - these are about 75% doneKoigu socks - I have one done, easy knitting once I cast on and get

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Way back when I talked about the would be ill fitting baby Kimono. I partially took it apart in the hopes to fix it. I then left it in my knitting basket until about a week ago and decided that I really should get it done for this fall. I pulled it out and started noticing areas that needed to be fixed and quickly came up with a long list including:Ripping out one of the fronts to the arm

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This soft cardi has had the knitting done since May, however, for reasons unexplained I did not seam it together until quite recently. While I was seaming, I was also looking for the white buttons that I got to go with it. Buttons... Can't seem to find them anywhere.I have tossed my stash, which has grown quite a lot this pass year. I really need to work on that as it is getting out of hand.I

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Lets's not mention how long it has been since I have blogged. I can't even think of a good excuse so I won't try and give one to you.I have been knitting though. First finished object to show you is the Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmerman:I choose three possibilities for buttonsA)B)C)At first I thought that the choice was tough between two of them, but after looking at the photos, there

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A week ago I got to spend the Saturday with the Yarn Harlot, while she examined hundreds of items of knitted items for the KW Knitters Guild Adjudicated show. The items were all knitted by members of the Guild. Since I am the official photographer for the Adjudicated Show I can show you a sneak peak of some of the winning items. Ready..Well there are winning entries in those baskets - along

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After taking about 6 weeks off from not knitting (you guys couldn't tell could you) and very little blogging, I have some works in progress to show to you.First up is the Harvey Kimono from Natural Knits for Baby and Mom by Louisa Harding.I am in the process of seaming, afterwards I need to add a garter stitch neck edging and sew on the buttons.Pattern Specs so far:Yarn : Sirdar Snuggly DKNeedles

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I have started a new blog, this one is not going away. However the new blog is going to have an exciting part in mine and my husband's new life. So go on over to Ninja Baby and say hello.

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For those of us in SW Ontario the winter was long. In Kitchener/Waterloo we broke two snowfall recordsThe most snowfall at one time 37 cm (old record 22.4 cm in 1971) March 8 stormThe most snowfall in a season - I am not sure where we are so far but the old record was 245.3 cm set in 1923-24 (broken March 8)April 1, this is what our back yard looked like (after 1 day of rain)The first time I saw

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Courtesy of the people over at XCD comics.

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I have thought about blogging, taken some photos to post but that is as far as it has gotten.Proof that I have thought of the blog - I have pictures of the total eclipse (Feb 20).(This my E for the abc along)and I have done some knitting.So to sum up: I am still alive, I have done some knitting, life has been busy although not that exciting, we have had lots of snow, and short stay by another

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Do you want to know something scary?Sure you do.It is not this massacre, that I actually came home to twice this past week. That is Bear, a big stuffed animal that Keeper liked to play with. On Monday I came home and there was small pieces of styrafoam that met me at the door. A quick search of the house led me to believe that Bear was attacked in the rec room and was carried around the house.

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In my last post I showed you two pictures of greyhounds - only one was Keeper. The other is Monty who is staying with us while his owners are out of town.They have been enjoying the snow in the backyard... ... and managed to "kill" Keeper's large stuffed bear. Those little white pellets are Styrofoam and manged to get everywhere in the house. I think we will be cleaning those pellets up for

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I have been going through different ideas what C could be.Some of my ideas wereCardigan components ( I am 1/2 done the second front)Corners (We added the extra trim and corner round to the floor)The extra trim was to help hide some of the problems like thisOr could it be a Canine CircleCanine Companion (notice anything different in this photo)but today I had to settle on CCColdFor my American

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The weekend finally arrived that Ali and I could devote to our living room floor. After ripping up the carpet we were told that Miniwax has a floor refinisher that might help us. After looking into it, I quickly decided against it. Why - well the need to reapply it after 4-6 months. I am not going to move my furniture and not walk in my living room for 1 day every 4-6 months. For those

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Books were readThreadBear was visited (and yarn was purchased)Official Photos were taken and not so officialI was shocked that Jenni suggested this trip and actually sat for a photoGuitar Hero was playedAli got quite good at playing the guitar (although I don't have any photos)I didn't play Guitar Hero very much. I just can't get into video games (except Tetris). I understand why people find

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Berry BananaJust a quick post before I download the photos about the weekend activities. Hints may be found here or here

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Theresa over at Knitting Underway has started Time Machine Tuesdays -the idea is too look at some past projects and comment on their wear, did the yarn hold up or did it wear, is their lots of pilling. Is is it a plain jane sweater that is one of the most comfortable items in your wardrobe.I am going to start off with my Jaywalkers socks knit in Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport in Iris. Here is one

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.. pricelessMy hands now are wonderfully warm and toasty thanks to thesePattern: Bird in Hand Mitts by Kate GilbertYarn: Fiesta Yarns Boomerang (100% merino) in Alaska colourway and some stash 100% wool in whiteNeedles: I knit these with 2.75 mm - I have yet to measure the gauge. I started knitting - checked on my hand and they fit. What else would I need.NotesI have not done stranded knitting

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Asleep Amidst AlpacaYes, I joined the ABC along.This photo shoot was not as easy as it could have been - I decided to do this 20 min before dinner, which does not make my food driven hound sleepy. The white alpaca (White Gem) smelled good and Keeper thought since I was draping it on him it must be a toy and kept grabbing it.

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The year is new and with that changes need to be made to the wool house.I have never been happy with how the living room furniture has been arranged but have never bothered to do anything about it (something to do with removing all the books from the bookshelf and not knowing how to fix the problem). Well, that was changed this past weekend.While we were moving furniture between floors -

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I'd love to show you pictures of my new sunrise circle jacket or of pictures of my hardwood floor.However, my cable modem is down, and has been since the weekend. With any luck Rogers will have it fixed tomorrow.Maybe then I will tell you the story of my sunrise since it hasn't been posted here.

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This past Christmas week has seemed like one event after another with just enough time between events to prepare food for the next event. Little knitting was completed although a fun time was had by all.(I love this picture of Sarah that Emily took. My brother showed us a setting on our camera that allows you to take isolate a colour in a photo).(Yes, Ali received a 4x8" poster for Superbad)A

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I know I am creating this list late (a whole year) but I decided to do a new layout and needed to clean up.SOCKSDenmark Socks Friday Harbour socks Felted clogs SWiSh socks Sailor booties Entrelac socksSpey Valley socks Krazy Stripes socksBear foot socksOpal Ribbed socksEverything elseClapotisBaby kimonoDulaan Challenge vest 1.0Keeper's scarfOriel Top

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On the weekend we had some visitors – Toddler Jeneric dragged her parents over the border so she could play with Keeper and see massive amounts of snow.The company allowed us plenty of time for knitting and game playing. (Jeneric has more pics on their site)I finished these(I almost didn’t get to photograph these as I had wrapped them up for Christmas before I thought of it)Project specs:Yarn:

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First I will get to the knitting content- I actually finished a pair of socks that fit Ali. I am not going to go diving into the archives to find out when that last happened. This sock knitting went very smooth until I broke one of my Brittany Birch 2.5 mm needles. Seeing this was the second one in that size that I broke (the previous one snapped about three years ago) I decided I needed

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or I guess I shouldn't have dropped that stitch back in June.I have been wearing my entrelac socks, on a weekly basis since it has gotten cold (I only have 8 pairs of knit socks so they get worn often in the rotation), without a problem. They are KPPPM and have been through the washing machine 3 -4 times (I also handwash my socks). Monday morning however, I went to put them on.My finger went

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Ali's posted a Christmas list on his blog and it was mentioned that Keeper needed a Christmas list. Since I have very little blog fodder of late. I thought I might take this time to discuss his hobbies and what Keeper would like to get for Christmas (or any other day for that matter).Keeper is a wonderful dog and has 6 things that he loves to do. Actually I really think this is all he does.

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"What are you doing?""Ah, now I'm comfy""What are you laughing at?"

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I finished these socks a couple of weeks ago and realized that I never posted a picutre of them. I started with a 16 st garter st cuff, that I made long enough to go around my calves, picked up stitches along the edge and knit the socks down. I needed to decrease the stitch number down at the back of the socks.Yarn: Patons Kroy Socks Krazy StripesNeedles: 2.75 mm bambooHeel: Patridge Heel

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Wow, it seems like just yesterday that I was at the knitters fair purchasing my fall's supply of yarn and know despite the weather October is almost here. For people who didn't hear we hit 40C with the humidex factored in (31.5 without) on Tuesday. It still is a beautiful day to be outside today.I didn't start this blog post to talk about the weather - I had something else to share. Oh yeah

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-I'll need a better name for this cardiI have cast on for the cardigan,- I decided against the mitered corner and decided to knit from side to side. The right front was cast on last night and by the end of knit and chat I had a portion done, but I am concerned. My gauge on my swatch was 17 sts/10cm before washing after washing 16.25 sts/10 cm. (Noro Silk Garden blooms a lot). Why I am

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Spent a good chunk of time and money at the Knitters Fair on Saturday. I met up with Sarah and Vick saw them go into fibre overload as newbies at these types of events do. I haven't taken pictures of my purchases today (it actually rained !!!!), however I will let you in on one of the major purchases.I got enough of Noro Silk Garden (col 239) for a cardigan. Different then the tweedy grey

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..Almost.I can't find my little case that keeps all my darning needles in so these will have to wait to be truly finished objectsThis is the Oriel top. This tank has gone through several iterations to get to this stage.I started off with the W pattern from Knitty. However I realized when I was almost through one ball of yarn that I was not going to have enough yarn. So it visited the frog pond

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I have been thinking on what my next major project is going to be. Seeing as my knitting has drastically slowed down lately - I need to get the materials for a major project - makes sense doesn't it. I have been thinking about a cardigan and am torn between three different ones.Option #1 Jenna's ErisA mostly stockinette cardigan with some cabling around the top and the bottom moves this from

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I finished Keeper's scarfThis was a fun project, my first attempt at shadow knitting and enjoyed watching the pattern slowly emerge.Project Specs: Needles: 5mm Boye straights Yarn: Diamond Tempo yarn (75% acrylic: 25% wool) 100g/200m in one ballLittle more than one ball each of black (col 217) and tan (col 1203) Pattern : My own with help from Vivian Høxbro's book Shadow KnittingDid you

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Here in Ontario we celebrate Civic Holiday, a day to celebrate the summer (most of the other provinces celebrate it with different names). How did I spend this weekend:Friends from Philly came upWe went to the cottageKeeper went for his first swim. It was hot on Saturday, and he had spent a chunk of time in the car before we got to the beach (not locked in the car but we didn't go straight to

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A few magical events this weekendChromo mudançaOkay it wasn't quite that easy.Last fall I collected the berries (sloes) from my blackthorn tree (Prunus spinosa) and have kept them in the freezer.Last weekend I made a dye bath -using 230 g sloe and left to cool overnight before filteringYarn was mordanted (Copper Sulfate)Yarn was dyed.I premordanted 2x 114g skeins with 28 g CuSO4, and only dyed

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I completely missed blogging on Canada Day - hey I spent most of the day away from internet activity celebrating the holiday. So Happy belated Canada and a Joyous Fourth to the Americans.I mentioned yesterday that I would fill you in on the weekend activities and seeing that it is Wednesday - I don't think it is too late to do that.So here is a hint to activity number one:Why yes those are

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After our fence was built, we realized our backyard was missing something. (Okay I'll admit the backyard still needs a bunch of work, but one step at a time.) I began to think about this, and thought maybe we should build one. Build what you say. – A picnic table.I broached the idea to Ali – seeing as I couldn't build it myself, and he was for it. Now the original idea was to build an A –

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... I don't have a camera available to me.This is coming to you by thanks of JenLa.Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday month and day only. Then post three events, two births and one holiday that occurred on your birthday, feel free to pass it on.3 events490 BC - Athens defeats Persia in the Battle of Marathon (This depends on what calendar you use)1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson

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I was outside the other day and came across this scarf bushEveryone needs a scarf bush – it even managed to produce one hat. What am I going to do with my harvest from this shrub – - send them to Dulaan of course. June 15 is fast approaching, and I promised to knit five items. So what do I have to sendScarf and hat from some yellow wool that I received a Christmas. Scarf is garter stitch,

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Last time I discussed the challenge the guild set (back in October) using one ball of yarn and Jenni wanted to know what had happened about the challenge she set for me. I had been thinking about this post even before she mentioned it.At the April guild meeting I asked the librarians (I love the fact the guild has a librarian) if they had a book on Shadow Knitting. They didn't but another

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Scroll down for knitting content.The garden is planted, here are a few of things that are in bloom.Lily of the Valleys- this picture was taken on Saturday and these lilies are past their prime now- they were starting to fade on the weekend.This flower is nestled in amongst some LofV- the wide leaves are from the LofV. Does anyone know what this is? It has very thin green leaves - visible in the

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Last night was freak out the Muggles night at the Indigo bookstore in downtown Toronto, Sarah, Ali (as photographer) and myself decided to attend. Arriving around 7pm (work and traffic prevented arriving earlier) we of course had to stand. (I later found out you had to arrive before 6 to get seats).Indigo just didn't have a large enough space to set chairs up for all the knitters. Although

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** Warning Picture heavy post**A couple of months ago my friend Betsy emailed me to let me know that she would be attending a conference in Toronto this week and was I available for a visit. I checked the calendar (not that I had anything planned) and saw that last weekend was Victoria Day. Excellent, her visit was to coincide with a long weekend. (What works great for Betsy is she gets two

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The lilacs are in bloom:When I haven't been enjoying the beautiful lilacs that are infusing the air with their aroma, I have been working on the entrelac socks. Do you want to see proof ( I am not sure if I have shown you these socks before).Hopefully not much longer and I will be able to move these too the FO column, although they will have to wait for the fall before they get any wear.

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On Monday night when I got home from teaching self defense, I started to upload the photos to the blog entry (I had problems on Sunday). My husband checked the voice messages and gets a "It's A, Call me as soon as you get this" the message was in that tone that you know there is not going to be good news at the end of it.A little back story:Ali and M were room mates through most of university,

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Details:Sailor BootiesYarn: Dale of Norway's Baby Ull in white and navyPattern: Zoe Mellors's 50 Baby Booties to KnitNeedles: 2.75 mmFor: Aiden ThomasDetails:Louvered FenceBy: All About FencingJenni said I should have shown a picture of the old fence. She is right but I am have been a negligent blogger lately. The old fence was a 30+ year old chain link fence 3 feet high, that was rusty and

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Since Thursday afternoon the weather here has been absolutely beautiful, which has been great for doing those outdoor chores that have been put off and put off due to the weather. It has been seeming that the nice weekends (not that we have had many of those) we have had plans not allowing us to do all that outdoor work.Well this weekend we got massive amounts done.We purchased and set up rain

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I had this nice long post last night almost ready to post and blogger ate the thing - pisses me off. I'll try to recreate the post.A couple of weeks ago our car started making a weird engine noise. We scheduled an appointment with the mechanic for this past Tuesday to have it looked at and fixed. On Sunday (Easter Sunday) we were at my parents for dinner then started to drive home on the

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So the day after Jenni suggested that I knit something with one of my other interests of mine. I received an email from one of the organizers of Hugs for Hounds put out a request for items for the silent auction at the event. You can see where this is going... I said I would knit something for the auction (it is in August).Since greyhounds come in many sizes and colours I don't want to knit

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I wish that I could say I have been jet setting around the world or at least the continent to explain my lack of blog activity but alas I do not have that exciting of an excuse.I wish that I could say that I have some fabulous story to tell you for my blogiversary - which I forgot all about - it was March 10.I wish that I had some great finished objects to show off but I don't.I am at the heel of

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As some of you guessed (it wasn't that difficult) I am making Eunny Jang's Entrelac socks from the spring issue of IK. I am using a navy colour as the contrast and a light variegated blue for the MC. I have done the first two rows of blocks twice now. The first time I knew the set up triangles were ugly but wanted to get a feel for how the blocks went and to work on other problems. I then

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Yes, I have been neglecting this blog. Part of the problem was I was bored with some of my current knitting and part my camera has given up (it has been a long slow death). I have started a new project which you will just have to imagine the splendor. I'll give you some hintsI am making it out of the three skeins of Koigu.It was designed by the new editor of the magazine the pattern is

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I recently read "The Other End of the Leash" by Patricia McConnell. The author is an animal behaviourist, a dog trainer and has a sheep farm with four working dogs. This book does not tell you how to train your dog, but to help you understand your relationship with your dog. She discusses the differences between how primates and canids communicate. McConnell does stress (which some people

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Well this time they are not for me but for MV.Yarn: Briggs & Little Regal Midnight Blue (2 skeins), Blue BW(1 skein)Needles: 9mmPattern: Fibertrends Felted ClogsNotes: I added the bumper this time and did the higher cuff.I don't really have anything else to say. This is the third time that I knit this pattern, however it is the first time that I have used this yarn.I started this post at the

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It has almost two weeks since my last post. Wow, I wasnt' expecting to be gone that long but you guys know ho real life gets in the way of blogging. That and Keeper has been doing some blog entries and he times slow - not having any fingers so he was tying up the computer.I finished the SWiSh socks.Yarn: SWS in denim blue - this is the 30% Soy 70% Wool yarn from Patons. It took me 2.5 skeins

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together for a finished Clapotis!I finished knitting the Clapotis for the second time. It went slower the second time knitting it then the first. I kept holding up the old scarf and thinking half done, 3/4 done only two more repeats before the decreases, only two more repeats before the decreases.Well that is what I get for going against my gut and thinking I could make it almost as wide and

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