Ode to Joyette

Here I am again, returned for a time from that mysterious world where blogging doesn’t occur called Life. I have a few finished objects to report on, but one step at a time. Most recently off the needles is Joyette and, as it’s name suggests, it was a joy to knit. I needed a small [...]

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Breaking My Mid-Winter Blues

With our oldest child in kindergarten, we still haven’t gotten into the swing of planning-out trips to coincide with school breaks and it was only a week ago that I learned we have Mid-Winter Break this week (well, I’ve had a bit on my mind with my husband Alex and I fighting the crud-that-wouldn’t-end, or [...]

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Crazy

Just when you thought a lowly thumbtack was so boring and obsolete…. Sorting through a bunch of junk, I recently found this thumbtack that I crocheted a cover for when I was a teenager. Crazy. Who would think to do such a thing? Well, I would, I guess. I’m pretty sure it’s the only thumbtack [...]

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Introducing….

Amineko! The latest issue of Twist Collective came out this week and on page three I stopped short when I spotted an ad for a new book, Hello My Name is Amineko (ISBN: 9781589235717) by Nekoyama, a book published in English about crocheting amigurumi cats. Without hesitation I ordered a copy, for it is the [...]

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Just Ducky

I finally finished crocheting a duck for my son, over a year after starting it. Daisy is a personal copy of a plush toy that is officially licensed off of the Daisy book series by Jane Simmons, a sweet and very enjoyable series of children’s books, by the way.  Below are a couple of pictures [...]

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We’ve been swined.

We’ve all completely recovered from our bout with H1N1,  a.k.a. the dreaded and much-hyped about Swine Flu. It passed among the four of us from Christmas through the first week of January.  It’s great to be back among the living. Whew! On the knitting side, I took a break from knitting that first week of [...]

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Easter Greetings!

What a weekend! It kicked-off with the rare event of dinner guests on Friday; we had lamb curry followed by pavlova for dessert. I’d never made pavlova before, but it was quite easy, much to my relief. Dinner guests and pavlova and all the preparation was not enough to deter me from also trying another [...]

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