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. [...]
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 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.) [...]
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 [...]
A day in the life of a modern homesteader
Posted in chickens, cooking, dear diary, homesteading, knitting on Friday, October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wake up, drink tea. Check email. Take the dog for a 4.5k jog. My neighbors wave at us as they slow down to drive by on the gravel roads. It’s -0.5°C when we leave the house and +0.7°C when we get back. Change into work clothes. Put on a load of laundry. Disinfect kitchen worksurfaces, [...]
Knitting
Posted in crafting, knitting on Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I resisted for ages and ages and ages… …a bunch of my friends took up knitting over the last couple of years, but I wanted to start quilting so I did that instead. But those darned knitters my lovely friends who knit finally sucked me in. My grandmother taught me to knit when I was [...]
