My boyfriend and I went to the New Brunswick Museum on Canada Day because admission was free then. One of the things there that I hadn’t seen before was the temporary exhibit of quilts from the New Brunswick Museum collection. I was slightly disappointed that only about twelve quilts from the huge collection are on [...]

Just proving that I really have made significant progress on Live Simply. Just a small bit of blue left, and then the backstitching. I wish the fabric was a lot more yellowy than it is. (I realize it doesn’t look at all yellowish in this picture, but it does look a bit more yellow in [...]

“When am I going to be in your blog again?” my boyfriend asked me. “If you do something cute,” I said. “Okay.” “You could buy me yarn,” I suggested. “That might help.” The sewing-up of the knitted kitty is still on hold because I realized I’d been sorely neglecting my Live Simply cross stitch, so [...]

Or rather, Mega Man’s face is two-toned. I can’t decide which colour to use for his face, which is why I’ve still got a few stitches left. I did half of his face in the colour that I thought would look best (DMC 3855) and then half of his face in the colour that PC [...]

The swatch I knit is probably bigger than the finished objects are going to be. They’re going to be baby booties made from Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Bulky in Persian Peacock, and they will be for my new cousin who is unborn as of yet, but slated to arrive sometime next month. I did not [...]

Eeyore is finished, and I was so dedicated to showing his colours accurately that I went outside when it was -26°C with the wind chill, just so I could get a photo in natural light. The things I do for you, Eeyore. Now that I’ve finished Eeyore, I’m going to do a Winnie-the-Pooh. I’ve also [...]

To distract from the lack of scarf photos, I present you with my further progress on Eeyore. I only have a bit of blue left to do on the outside of his ear, but it’s mostly fractional stitches and it’s a total pain in the ass. I recently made a mistake on the ear and [...]

So I thought I’d have some more free time when I was finished taking my two classes this summer. Fitting a graduate course that would normally take three months into a week and a half is pretty intense. It was about teaching classical mythology in elementary school, though, and my professor and classmates were a [...]

Oddly enough, I’m not ignoring the sunglasses case. Even though I never wear sunglasses. It starts with an inch of 1 x 1 ribbing, so I cast on and knit a few rows in 1 x 1 ribbing, and it gave me a trapezoid. You can’t tell just how trapezoidal it is from the photo [...]

My wrist has now healed enough so that using it doesn’t hurt at the time, just causes it to throb the day after. It’s interesting trying to figure out how many rows I can knit on the Stripey Scarf without causing pain the next day. (The answer: Surprisingly few.) Not a fun process, but it [...]