Boo!…ts, Boots

I carved this fellow all by myself, grumbling quite a bit as I did so. Unlike Une Femme who not onlyrevels in the Hallowe’en festivities herself, but also links to a host of other revellers,…

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Sunday evening thoughts

just a couple of random notes before Monday comes ’round again: 1. Christie Blatchford’s rather odd piece about blogs in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. She thinks most blogs are poorly or indifferently written and further…

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first storm of the season

It was a dark and stormy night! After enjoying some of fall’s delights in Friday’s sunshine, we were reminded of its other propensities yesterday with folks heading down to the docks to check the lines…

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more weekend observations: blogs, books, knitting plans, and dog escapes

I quite enjoyed making a random list of observations last Saturday, so I think I’ll try that again. 1. Miriam Felton, the designer of the Icarus ShawlI recently completed, mentioned my shawl and linked to…

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Wearing my Icarus

I’ve just posted to my first Knitalong, a blog devoted to knitting the Icarus shawldesigned by Miriam Felton and published in Interweave Knits, Summer 2006. Ideally, a knitter would post several times to a KAL…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.