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. ...
