Well, the heat wave here continues… yesterday it reached 47C… 116.6F… and of course we lost power AGAIN, but only for a couple of hours…
Can I just say that NOTHING works effectively in that kind of heat… especially not me!
I don’t want to lay blame with the camera, or the operator… but today’s photos are [...]
Ugh… 43C again yesterday, and to top it all off we had a 10 hour power outage!!! Let’s just say that all the perishables in our house have well and truly PERISHED!
But, on to happier things… the resulting yarn from my experimental dyeing…
Do you have a favourite here?
Mine is the green,although I guess the next [...]
Man it’s been hot here!
The mercury hit 43C yesterday… that’s 109.4F… hot… hot… HOT…
And we won’t be getting any relief for at least another three days… so it is definitely not crafting weather… especially since we don’t have air conditioning!!!
It doesn’t even cool down much in the evenings, so there’s no point in picking up [...]
Have you heard about The Milkweed Project yet???
click here to find out all about it…
Essentially, this is a collaborative project… they are planning to deck out the inside of a gallery so that it looks and feels like you are inside a milkweed pod. Shan is calling for knitters and crocheters from all over the [...]
I’m very serious about this ‘learning to read a pattern’ business… at the moment I’m working on the Seraphina Shawl, and can I just say…
NICE SHAWL – NIGHTMARE PATTERN
I thought the hard part was going to be choosing the yarn. The pattern calls for a 10 ply/worsted weight yarn and a 6.0mm hook. But I [...]
We’ve had some hot and gusty weather through here over the last week. At first I thought it was going to be fabulous ‘drying weather’ and that I could get some of those many skeins of recycled yarn washed and dried quickly… but I was a bit ambitious…
The winds were wild beyond words. Anything that [...]
Did you figure out where I went wrong with Esther’s Square???
Take a look at the centre of my square… see the + at the centre? Now look at the original pattern… see it should be an X shape? When I joined on the navy yarn for round 5, I must have started in the wrong [...]
I know it’s not yet February… and the whole idea of the CAL I talked about in my last post was to work on ONE BLOCK each month…
BUT
I was on such a high after successfully completing the first one, that I wanted to attempt another!
So I decided to work up the alternative January square… the [...]
I’ll let you in on a little secret…
but don’t tell anyone!
Actually, you can tell as many people as you like… since I KNOW that I am not alone with this problem…
I really, really, really struggle to follow crochet patterns. Knitting patterns are different… I can understand them easily… but crochet patterns give me a [...]
MUUUUUUUUUMMMM…. he’s touching my blanket…
MUUUUUUUUUMMMM…. she put her spit on me…
MUUUUUUUUUMMMM…. he touched me…
MUUUUUUUUUMMMM…. she took her shoe off…
MUUUUUUUUUMMMM…. he’s looking out my window!
That’s my personal favourite… he’s looking out MY window!!!! What is with that one???
Such a joy to travel in the car with kids… especially when they are all tired and cranky…
But it [...]