Time for another hard-hitting Daily Post question! What’s the single most important thing you accomplished in 2010? Well, I didn’t accomplish much that was too difficult. Really. I didn’t solve world peace, or end starvation. I didn’t write a best-selling novel, and I didn’t enlarge the family or find the cure for cancer. I knit […]
I saw this particular little weekly feature on Turtlegirl’s blog and thought I might follow suit. Of course, afterwards I googled WIP Wednesday, and apparently it’s not a new idea…so now I don’t feel quite so cheesy! My Noro striped shawl is shaping up quite nicely. It’s getting large enough to take more time to […]
Well, the thing about a black hole – its main distinguishing feature – is it’s black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them? –Holly, Ship’s computer, Red Dwarf (episode: Marooned) You see that sock? It’s black. And the thing […]
This may not be news to anyone who reads my blog, but I’m almost done Robin’s shiny happy socks. The biggest challenge? Making sure that the long colour gradation didn’t change abruptly after the heel. You see, I didn’t do an afterthought heel, or a contrast heel…I just knit the heel. On sock #1, it […]
We are totally exhausted. Today was spent in preparation for Christmas. We got up early and started cleaning the main floor of the house. Most of the counters are clean, the floor is scrubbed…even the table is almost prepared. I even have a very sweet husband making my dinner in the kitchen (Yay! Meatlog! …er…Meatloaf….). […]
It has now reached *that* time of year. The time of year when the cute little slender girls are decked out in cute little swing coats, with their cute knitwear that’s meant to look bulky so that they look tiny. It’s a fashion that never seems to go out of style, and why should it? […]
I have to admit that I was a bit alarmed that Hallowe’en wasn’t even over yet when the stores started to put out their Christmas displays. I guess it just goes to show how the commercial world moves. I thought it was gauche to put up such store displays before American Thanksgiving, but I guess […]
I finally managed to squeak a little time to take a few photographs, and very quickly came to the realization that maybe, just maybe, I should have gotten my rear in gear a little sooner. On a less overcast day, perhaps. But, things being as they are, I tromped out to the patio and set […]
We’ve been needing to take a break for quite awhile now, and it only just finally happened. Thank goodness for vacation time! Some may recall that we took a trip to Saskatoon about a month back…and a week of vacation with it. Yeah…that didn’t work out quite so well. Robin was recovering from a cold […]
This is what I’ve taken to calling The Sock of Awesome (aka Awesomesocks). As you can see, I finished sock #1 and have moved on to sock #2.