MondayLunchCrew

I took a few days off from knitting given the most recent setback. I decided that I needed a cross stitch break and best yet, a simple quick project. So I went into my stash and found the Shepherd’s Bush Spooky Sheep. It was started on Thursday night and put down after a few stitches. [...]

I’ve been knitting a lot on my sweater, the end was in sight. I was abandoning all other projects for the sake of finishing my sweater. I think I knew what I had to do sometime last week. The body of the sweater looks small. I tired it on. I measured. I measure again. But [...]

StreetWars is going well and branching all over the world. Not my kind of game, but it does have it’s intriguing qualities. Now, we’ve got a different take, SockWars. Knitting, socks mixed in with assassinations. It’s definitely not for me. But all types of people are knitters and might enjoy a different knitting game. Now, [...]

Tokyo, Japan. 2006

In the past year I’ve been working on learning new knitting skills. Ever since the Knitting Olympics, I’ve made many pairs of socks and have learned a few different techniques: short row toe and heel making a sock kitchener stitch zig zag bind off old Norwegian cast on pick up heel Lately I’ve been looking [...]

When I’m watching tv, I tend to knit since I can watch and knit at the same time. To make progress on my cross stitch, I’ve got to listen to something. The ideal is to get sucked into an audiobook and I’ll spend the hours happily on my couch crouched over my stitching and deep [...]

I was reading the article on blender pen transfers last week on Photojojo and was really intrigued. I had images I could use and a bone folder, so all I needed was the blender pen. Since we were in the neighbourhood, G and I went to Loomis and picked up a blender pen. It’s been [...]

I’ve been contemplating some argyle. I’ve always loved it as a sweater pattern but find it hard to get colours that works for me. But ever since checking out Moth Heaven I’ve been thinking about socks but not just socks. And colours that I want to make and nothing too traditional. It’s something to contemplate [...]

I made the effort of laying out the on going sweater for the blog. It’s nearly done. It’s getting to the stage where I’m about to decrease and start on the 2nd sleeve. But nothing in this house can be laid out on the carpet without a visitor coming by to check it out. We [...]

Here are photos from our trip just past. It look a while to sort it out to a small number. The yahoo photo page has captioned subset of the photos. (a little under 140) These included some shots taken by our friends. (Thanks, Lenore and Aaron) We wouldn’t be in many photos together otherwise. So, [...]

Romni is having a 20% sale off everything for the month of July. I decided to get out of the house today and go for a visit. I wanted to find out if they carried some yarns that I was looking for, for future projects and also wanted to get some prices jotted down. Was [...]

Since I’ve been home from the holiday, I’ve been working really hard on sorting, editing, picking out from our photos. I think the rough estimate is that I started out with about 1300 of our photos in a mix of mostly digital but also B&W, colour positives and colour negatives. Why so many photos? Well, [...]