My friend, Barb received the parcel with the gifts I knitted for her, her two girls and her Mom today. She texted me immediately afterwards to say that she and the girls loved theirs gifts and that she was already wearing hers. Her Mom will get her present the next time that she comes up to Halifax to visit. I made Earth Maiden for my friend, Barb as she really liked my Earth Maiden that I wore when I visited her last summer. Earth Maiden is a...

My friend Natalie’s 4th annual Tour de France KAL (Knit Along) started today. It is run out of her ravelry group Natalie Servant Designs. This year’s shawl pattern is the Père Lachaise Shawl and she talks about her inspiration for this pattern in this blog post. Natalie posted pictures of the different versions she knit of this shawl in this blog post. Natalie knit the small fingering weight version using one skein of my Cash Sock...

I have almost finished knitting my planned Christmas (belated now) gifts for my friend B. and her family. I have finished and blocked the lap blanklets for her two daughters. I used the Hourglass Throw pattern by Anne Hanson for each but I knit it with my BFL DK as I wanted something a bit smaller. I used 4 skeins with 1 less repeat wide for the orange one (colourway – Orange Julius) for the younger girl. I used 5 skeins for the...

It’s that time of year again. I usually give several handknit items as gifts each year. I am blessed in that my family and several of my friends like and apprecriate hand-knitted gifts. I have just finished my first bit of holiday knitting. It is a reversible cowl that is part of the Wrapped Ribs Scarf/Cowl pattern recently released by my friend Natalie Servant. I had some of my cash sock in the caribbean waters colourway leftover from my...