Baby it’s cold outside!
Actually, it has warmed up since last night. But for the last two weeks we in Regina have been in a deep freeze of -30 Celsius or lower. I have two winter parkas. My friends laugh. I have the regular parka good to about -25 C, but when it goes lower I pull out my...
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I’ve been away
Sorry for taking so long between posts folks. I've been sidetracked onto clearing an 18 year backlog of mementos destined for family scrapbooks. Tomorrow is my second Scrap Meet of 2019. I hope to finish scrapbooking 2001, which takes 1 1/2 scrapbooks. I love these...
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And so it Begins
A belated Happy New Year everyone! I guess I almost made it for Ukrainian Christmas? A little late for that too... Maybe I can be early for saying Happy New Year to my Asian friends? Lunar New Year is early February this year. At any rate, we had a wonderful holiday...
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Merry Christmas!
Hi everyone. I hope you are enjoying the Season of Christmas. I've pleasantly surprised myself by having all my gifts finished by last Friday. I still have to wrap a couple of them. However, everything is taken care of. 🙂 We've been enjoying Christmas concerts,...
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Weekly Review
Hello everyone. Despite being thwarted by a day long power outage on Tuesday I was able to update my shop section of the website by Thursday. You will notice a few changes. For one, I've taken all the plaids to zero inventory because I appear to have...
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I’ve been absent
Hi everyone! Sorry I've been absent from blogging for awhile. It's been pretty busy on the medical front and I've been taking time to deal with various issues. Things seem to have sorted themselves out a bit now. I'm still knitting. It's great for stress relief....
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His and Hers Beanie Strikes Again!
Hi everyone. I've been busy this week with a lot of medical stuff. However I was able to finish knitting the His and Hers Beanie from Ravelry.com using Fleece Artist Grassland National Parks Chinook yarn. I'm currently knitting matching wrist warmers from the free...
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Artsy Happenings
This week I reknit the Fleece Artist Fundy National Park yarn flat-topped hat in new modifications. The top is no longer flat. I also finished the Fleece Artist Greenwich Dunes National Park yarn neck warmer, and am halfway through knitting the wrist warmers. Aside...
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Knitting
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend! Hubby and I were on the road to Prince Albert to visit a friend. We had a great time poking around town, visiting Shananigan's Cafe, and hiking in nearby Little Red River Provincial Park. We had a lovely Thanksgiving...
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Moving back upstairs!
The new finish is on our Red Oak floors! Painting is almost finished. Progress is slow, but we finally moved our possessions back into the house from storage today. We are also moving from the basement to upstairs again. Unfortunately the movers took off for lunch...
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Friday Finale
Hi everyone. This week I cast on the wrist warmers and started to knit them. I love the simplicity of the DROPS Design Extra 0-903 neck warmer and wrist warmer pattern. The only challenging part are the short rows on the neck warmer. I keep forgetting to wrap them...
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The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men…
...Often go awry! I thought I had Anne Budd's book "The Knitter's Handy Book of Knitting Patterns" out and in my knitting bag, but apparently it has been packed into storage somewhere. So instead of using one of her hat patterns, I downloaded a free pattern called...
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