a belated happy new year...

One of the things I'm trying to do more often is try to make more new dishes... the Salmon Pasta was a big hit.

My handy helper... keeping my double pointed needles together...

I started these sock spring last year... I finally finished them... they are sooo cosy!

Inactive Life?

Not so... I assure you. I have been busy.

I can't believe that it's almost my 36th birthday (this Saturday)... So what have I been doing?
Well not much knitting. I have a few projects sitting around in storage bags... Oh wait last week I started on a scarf that was available on the spring issue of Knitty.

Last Friday Peter (my husband) and I attended the launch of The Green Tree Gallery.... (Peter and I have a few pieces up) I'm currently putting together a few open edition prints, that will be available on my Etsy shop.... Peter's Shop is up and running!

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Keeping Up Apperances...

Gee... I really should break out of this habit of posting once a month. I have been busy... honestly!
We have a lot going on family wise, with my father-in-law planning to remarry, selling the house and moving to London. It's been pretty world wind as he will be moving into a smaller place, Peter trying to save our items and suitcases that are stored into the loft by the end of the September.... it's a good thing we just live down the road.

I'm currently in a art slump.... unable to create any art. I have been very busy with my knitting and I've become obsessed with Ravelry.

Oh and guess what... we are going to Rome November 26th-30th...

Should be fun... I've always wanted to go to Rome... other Italian locations are Florence and Venice.

I have so much to complete today, it's not even funny...

out from hiding

well I haven't been hiding really... just trying to cope with everything that life has been trowing our way as of late.... everything is fine now, it just got a little stressful around here... I've also been in some sort of artist rut... still working with it... oh well

So we've seen the 5th Potter film and finished the final book... didn't like the film but looooved the book! the book ended pretty much the way I thought.

Knitting has once again saved me with the on going stresses in life... I'm happily chugging along my Clapotis in Noro Cash Iroha, the Chevron Scarf in Lorna Laces Black Purl and a pair of Slytherin Socks....

knitalong

So I decided to make the Two Toned (one tone) Fitted Shrug, my first project Buffy Knit Along project... hopefully that will encourage me to finish it, since I started in March.

I'm such a slow knitter... or I've taken on a lot of projects to do with my busy schedule... what I really should be doing this week is clean out my studio and stock the etsy shop...

As for the Knitting the Classics knitalong I'm almost done reading The Inferno, and I'll probably cast on the project end of the week.

the quiet weekend...

This was suppose to be our RPG weekend (I play Dark Ages Vampire with my husband as the Storyteller, and two other friends) but it was canceled... So I spent most of yesterday and a earlier today bumming around eating brownies that I had baked for the game, with lots of earl grey tea... (earl grey my new bitch these days) and I knitted...


this pic was taken few days ago... the heels are completed now. The Pattern is the Nautilus by Anna Bell. I'm soo liking this pattern... I'll start the celebrations for my first "two at the same toe-ups" once I've finished... but it is looking good :)

well I better get back to cooking dinner. Tonight we are having Tuna Pasta Salad with Mediterranean Style Seasoning...

Socks

Well... I finally did it... I Knitted my first pair of socks! Yippee! I actually finished this pair last month and I'm currently working on my second pair, but still.

The original pattern is from Sensational Knitted Socks which I shortened the leg section ...
Yarn: Merino Cashmere Sock in Exotic from The Knittery. I still need to buckle down and photograph my past projects though.

I've been knitting on and off for the last 10ish years... While I was studying at the Ontario Collage of Art and Design (OCAD) I took a knitting class ... we were taught basic knitting, crochet and knitting with a knitting machine. The main focus of this course was knitting as a fine art than wearable art... so I spent my knitting experience knitting scarves... lots of scarves... and jewellery... never really having the time to get into serious socks and sweater knitting... That all changed last year (almost six months ago) when I had my hysterectomy due too fibroids... I needed something to do while I was recovering in the hospital and while I was at home.