knitting

knitting, travel

All You Knit Is Love…..

This has to be the coolest name that I have ever come across for a yarn store.  It was in the old town of Barcelona and I nearly missed it.  We were walking through these narrow winding alleyways and I was looking for interesting shots of gargoyles, when my husband said, “look a yarn store […]

knitting, travel

I’m back!!!

I couldn’t connect to the WIFI avalable in the flat that we rented for 10 days in Barcelona so I have a lot of catching up to do.  My two kids had no problem connecting with their Macs; but there was some sort of incompatibility with windows and a Dell program on my computer.  Believe me

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HB MPM

I said in an earlier post that I knew some interesting people, well Mary Pat is right up there on the list of “Interesting People I Have Known.”  MP is a knitter with a very eclectic sense of style. For example, I have never known her to wear a “pair” of earrings. She always wears

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Rat-tat-tat……

A very big “RAT-TAT-TAT….” because this is what I posted for big in the photo scavenger hunt. It’s one of two woodpeckers on a metal “tree trunk” – a sculpture near the CNtower and the Skydome in Toronto. We were down there buying a “Blue Jay’s” (baseball) related gift for our daughter and I just couldn’t resist

knitting, photography

Family time

This is what I posted for “family” in the photo scavenger hunt.  They are in the little Estonian deli near where I work. We haven’t had a substantial snowfall yet so no “real” snowmen. But these are pretty cute. It always amazes me how different cultures interpret similar things. These are presumably a northern European

gardening, knitting

Gilding the Holly

This is the time of year when we try to make everything “shine.” We put frosting on ornaments and lights in trees. We put up beautiful glass decorations to enhance and reflect light.  Perhaps it’s because the days are short, that we need to get as much light as we can, from wherever we can.

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The last roses of summer….

Well here they are.  I picked them about 5:30pm on Dec 2, 2011. This is absolutely that latest that I have had roses blooming in the garden.  Our last date prior to this one was Nov 27 a few years ago.  I am also in another photo challenge – hope you can stand it.  I

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Food….

The last photo in November’s photo scavenger hunt was ‘food”.  This is what I posted. The shape and the lovely colours of this fruit made me think of balls of yarn in a yarn shop. It also reminded me of some jewellery that I had knit on a fruit theme. I knit these with 1.5mm

books, knitting

Paper teacups

I know that everyone thought that I was a little “nuts,” when I started making kits for knitted teacups. No one every thought Debbie New was a little strange and she started the craze! Well some one has created a stunning paper teacup.  I know we drink hot (and cold) beverages from paper cups; but

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That still small voice……

I was asked to write about “what is in the back of my mind “- a motherlode.  This is where I store and ferment my ideas for business, knitting and life!  At any given time there is a seed, a seedling, an adolescent plant and one that is about to bloom and produce seeds again

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