There’s nothing like being snug and warm when it’s cold and blowy outside, especially if there’s something yummy-smelling simmering on the stove, and I have a few minutes to sit and do some knitting… The last of our Christmas turkey simmering for stock: A pair of socks I knit for my three-month-old nephew: [...]
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Friday Photo Post: Snug and warm
Posted in cooking, crafting, homesteading, knitting on Friday, January 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Friday Photo Post: Utterly random
Posted in crafting, knitting, wheel of the year on Friday, September 17, 2010 | 9 Comments »
It’s been a busy week, so this will be a brief and utterly random photo post: Our entire onion harvest. They are small because I planted a little late, and didn’t weed enough. I will plant two or three times as many onions next year, as these will only last us a couple of months. [...]
Friday Photo Post
Posted in chickens, crafting, garden, natural dyeing, photo post on Friday, August 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I’m trying to get back into the swing of updating this blog regularly, and so I’m starting with a photo post. Enjoy! Beans and corn growing in our vegetable garden. They are both local Native American varieties. Yarn I dyed using Queen Anne’s Lace (the yellow parts) and onion skins (the orange parts). I call [...]
Long overdue crafting post #2: knitting
Posted in crafting, knitting on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last time I posted about knitting, I had just finished my first pair of socks. I pretty much immediately started a second pair, which are about 2/3 done. I’ve learned that socks made with worsted-weight yarn goes way faster than socks made with fingering-weight yarn. I also learned that I can knit approximately 6 inches [...]
Plant dyeing experiments #2 and #3: Black beans and Rooibos
Posted in crafting, Green witch, natural dyeing on Monday, March 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Blue is one of the more difficult colours to achieve with plant-based dyes. The ancient Celts used woad, and the ancient Asians used indigo, and that was pretty much it until synthetic dyes were invented. I’ve ordered some indigo seeds from my favourite local seed company, just for fun, and I will be looking up [...]
Plant dyeing experiment #1: Buckthorn
Posted in crafting, knitting, natural dyeing on Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s the time of year when I’m itching to rush headlong into a bunch of exciting new creative projects, but don’t actually have the energy to do any of them, because my SAD hasn’t yet retreated enough. One project I have started dipping into (pun entirely intended) is plant-based dyes for animal fibers (wool, etc.) [...]
Long overdue crafting post: quilting
Posted in crafting, homesteading, quilting on Thursday, February 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
After making a lap quilt for Baba (t!’s grandmother) for Christmas, I took a bit of a break from quilting. Over the couple of months I’ve been slowly getting back to it. My first project was aborted after a couple of weeks. I joined an online group that is spending the next 18 months making [...]
Socks!
Posted in crafting, knitting on Thursday, January 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Back in October, I posted that I’d started knitting my very first pair of socks. This past weekend, at our monthly crafting get-together, I finished them: They even mostly fit me! They’re a tiny bit tight, but I altered the pattern a tad to take into account the fact that I have tiny feet, and [...]
Christmas crafting
Posted in crafting, green living, knitting, quilting on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This year’s hand-made Christmas gifts included: A scarf for my mum, knit with some lovely yarn that Arin spun for me A second scarf for my mother-in-law, knit from soft, shiny bamboo yarn. And a lap quilt for Baba, t!’s Ukranian grandmother. She liked it a lot.
The 14-year-old sweater.
Posted in crafting, knitting on Monday, November 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In 1995 I moved to Ottawa to start my first real grown-up job, working for Nortel (which, at the time, was still called BNR – Bell Northern Reasearch). I had a little one-bedroom apartment downtown, some disposable income, not many friends, and lots of free time. So I decided to knit myself a sweater. I [...]
