Hello friends!
I've moved the blog over to Wordpress and will be publishing there from now on.
It's still a work in progress, but I hope to be on a regular blogging schedule soon.
I hope you'll join me :)
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
I scream, you scream…
I’ve always wanted an ice cream maker. I’ve stayed away from them because 1) I don’t have a lot of room in my freezer and 2) my hips don’t need an ice cream maker in the house. I love to cook, and cook a lot from scratch. I’m happy to take shortcuts here and there, but the majority of my meals are cooked from scratch. I like the idea of knowing what’s in my food and having control over it (Type A personality right here). Recently, I started hunting for coconut ice cream. A friend and I had eaten lunch at a Thai place we go to often, but I never realized (or had room) for dessert; I never realized they...
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Knitley Road- Tidalwave
If you remember, I brought back some amazing Cowichan yarn from BC, knit up some headbands and thought about dying the ivory yarn. I bought some icing dye (because it’s non-toxic and I don’t have to worry about acids and fresh air, and a gas mask and such) and dyed some yarn green and made one headband. I loved the process and seeing how the yarn absorbed the dye and then knitting it up. If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen the process. I wound up all the yarn I had into skeins and picked my colours. I decided not to dye anything more green and just to focus on the yellow and blue. The blue looked lovely...
Monday, April 29, 2013
The Mojo Boomerang
Hullo friends! It’s been a while, I know.
I took a break.
A hiatus if you will.
And only felt sort-of guilty for doing it.
A few custom items here or there, but I haven’t really done much in the way of crafti-ness since the end of January. I’m usually still in full swing until at least February (after Valentine’s day) but I just wasn’t feeling it.
I did a few projects just for me instead.
I finished knitting my first adult-size sweater:
(it’s much easier to photograph on Twiggy than on me)
I made a quilt:
A queen-ish sized quilt for my bed. It was my first quilt.
Go big or go home.
(I will...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
A Quilting adventure
This post is very delayed…mostly because the gift-giving was delayed so I couldn’t share it until the special little-ones received their gifts. Last summer I made pillowcase-dresses for two of my friends’ daughters. Here’s one of the finished dresses (lets call this Fabric no.1) –> I had some fabric left over from each dress and designed to make each little girl a blanket for their First Birthdays. Let me first say I have never quilted before. I learned how to sew the seams so that the fabric lays flat, and how to make borders…thank goodness for You Tube! There are so many great resources...
Monday, February 18, 2013
Clean lines, bright colours
Happy Family Day! Here in Ontario it’s our first long weekend of the year, Family Day. I’m grateful for an extra day to get things done…sometimes the weekends are just not enough time to get everything done. Last year I made some cards and invitations for a bakery in a small town outside of London. I kept the design simple, but I loved the impact the white space and the bright colours had. I love this turqoise and pink card, the little scalloped edge, the patterns on the presents…love it! I made another card to coordinate with the pink and turquoise and this time, I used the balloon...
Saturday, February 16, 2013
I’m here, I promise
Things have been quiet here in blog land…I’ve been busy with work, custom orders and Knitley Road and life outside of work, custom orders and Knitley Road. I’ve a number of projects to share with you, so many I don’t really know where to start! The first one I’ll share is a knit project I actually made for myself. Knit items for me are few and far between…I started this sweater last June, put it down for months and months and picked it back up over the Christmas holidays and finished it up a few weeks back. I saw this pattern in Vampire Knits by Genevieve Miller, it’s the Lore Hoodie by Cirilia Rose- the hoodie on the cover. ...
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Knitley Road: knit headbands
I brought back some beautiful wool from B.C., some big and bulky Cowichan yarn. I brought back ivory and dark grey; the yarn is virgin yarn, meaning it’s undyed. Depending on the sheep, there’s just a few colour variations: ivory, brown and 3 shades of grey. The wool is very warm and it was perfect for these headbands I made for Knitley Road. Knit up on size US 15 needles, they are bulky but oh so warm! I made one for myself and wore it during our recent cold snap; -25C with the windchill and my ears were nice and toasty. I’m thinking about trying my hand at handpainting the ivory...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Twiggy
I had been very envious of other shops who had a model or dress form for their product photography. I loved the idea of my scarves on a hanger on a bleached wood wall, but it was hard to show the details of the items and how they would lay on a person. After much searching, price comparing and lamenting over the ridiculously high number of American companies who would not ship to Canada (seriously? it’s 2013!)…I found her. Meet Twiggy: She looks good in any colour and doesn’t talk back- the perfect business partner! I think it’s made a big difference in the photos in the shop and it’s much easier to show how a scarf can...
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Happy New Year!
Can I still say “Happy New Year"?! I’m not sure what the statute of limitations are on that phrase…but since it’s still January, I’m saying it anyways. I’ve been quite busy since I returned from my Christmas holidays…not counting the 5 days I battled a bad cold and did nothing but watch Netflix, nap and fit in some knitting on my sweater. I’ve been working on custom orders at A Paper Buffet and trying to stock up Knitley Road using some lovely yarn I brought back from B.C. I’ll be sharing some projects with you this week, and show you how Knitley Road got a bit of a make-over thanks to a new photo set-up. Happy Sunday!...
