Chocolate Covered Cherries from Heartstrings Originally known as St Valentine’s Day, this day was set aside to honour various early Christian martyrs named Valentine, one of whom apparently wrote letters to parishioners explaining how God loved them. The tradition of sending “letters of love” on this day, obviously caught on and was firmly entrenched by […]
Fulvio Bonavia After seeing this bag which was posted to my FB wall, I decided to look at how knitters have interpreted fruit in knitting. The most classic of patterns is Fruit Caps from Ann Norling. Strawberry Hat from Ann Norling This is a pattern to knit a child’s strawberry hat, with variations that include
My horoscope said that I would need “help” today…….so this is the luck we found amid the “gloom”…. 1. It was a lovely day, fortunately, with thick fluffy flakes of snow creating lots of magic. Serena Gundy Park – Feb. 2011 Toronto 2. Luckily the my car’s bumper, which had become dislodged, didn’t completely fall
Alveare Since I’m sitting here, just needing to write – (I wonder what is passing through my House of Letters today?) – I thought that I would define some of the names that Woolly Wormhead has given her amazing hats. One of the first is Alveare, which in Italian means “beehive” or in biology, “snail”.
Bunny Hat from Woodsmoke Woolwork Here are my offerings for the year of the Rabbit, to help you get a “jump” 🙂 on sales. These are the amazing hats, mitts and socks from Woodsmoke Woolworks! Barb Telford of WW has 15 simply wonderful hats to which she has added mitts and socks. Well we don’t
Groundhog mitten from Infiknit If the groundhog sees his shadow, the belief is there will be six more weeks of winter. If he doesn’t see his shadow there will be only two more weeks of winter. We wish that there would only be six more weeks of winter! When you live in the North, Spring
Imbolc February 1 is St. Brigid’s Day or Imbolc – the Irish festival marking the beginning of Spring. The other Irish festivals that follow the seasons are – Beltane (May 1), Lughnasadh (Aug. 1) and Samhain (Nov 1.) On these days, the ancient Irish believed that the water of the “otherworld” entered our world through
Crocheted Car Cover by Agata Oleksiak Just when you think that you’ve seen everything, along comes someone like Agata Oleksiak. I don’t sell a lot of crochet patterns and I don’t think that many people would buy crochet patterns to create things like this! But you have to marvel at the talent, endurance and moxey
Filligree from Woolly Wormhead Lucky Friday was very active because…… 1. Woolly Wormhead sent me two new patterns. I always love seeing Ruth’s work. It is so creative, so tasteful and yet so easy to knit! 2. Company is coming for dinner and dinner is made! 3. Nothing like company coming to make you clean
Dryad from Woolly Wormhead OK, I think that it’s time to move to a higher plane. I know that getting out of parking spots, fixing wiper blades for rear windows, buying Cranberry scones etc… is the stuff of life; but, every once in a while we need to be catapulted out of the mundane, however,
