Last FO of 2008

This hat will probably be my last FO of 2008.  I don’t think I’ll be able to finish any of my other WIP’s before the clock strikes midnight tomorrow.   I’m happy to report the snow is starting to disappear here and I hope that we don’t have any more for a while.  It’s a real [...]

Confessions of a new lace addict

I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays.  We are!  Knitting time is being stolen by videogames, mainly Rockband.  Mini-me got Rockband for x-mas and since then we’ve been having lots of fun!  I love to sing and some of my favourite songs are on the set list!  I can sing Radiohead’s “Creep” on expert with [...]

Baby it’s “cowled” outside ;-)

What a fast knit this lovely cowl has been. I’m now done and the ends have been weaved in. I’m still deciding if I should block this cowl or not until then I’m wearing this baby and not taking it off.
Pattern: The Shapely Cowl by Amy Swenson (not free, but available on [...]

Yay it’s a secret pal package!

Thanks Secret Pal, I’m sorry it took me a while to get this post up.  Things are really busy this time of year, I’m sure you understand!  Earlier this week I got a great package from my SP, but wasn’t quite sure since the note was missing.  We checked the box and wrapping and still [...]

Thanks Bella!

On Sunday my package arrived from Bella Boomslang. Poor Bella, someone is Gryffindor had a “sense of humour” and jinxed the socks she was knitting, so it took her a while to fix them. Also her owl was hexed, so there was some delay while the poor owl was recovering from the huge red and [...]

Baby it’s cold outside

I’ve been knitting a few scarves lately and thought that I’d also remind all of you that ISE 7 is still excepting applications.   (edit: maybe not, looks like it’s 100 swappers or Dec. 8th but not post saying that the hostess is not accepting any more entries so give it a try you have nothing [...]

Freedom in Pawprints

So I’ve been busy and have been meaning to blog for a while; however good intensions never actually write the post all by themselves!  There is so much I was to blog about, but I’ll just have to remember to do so later because I only have time for go into one or two of [...]