Hana received this charming book a few years ago from her Grandma—Mr. Nick’s Knitting by Margaret Wild and illustrated by Dee Huxley.
Mrs. Jolley, Mr. Nick’s best friend with whom he sat and knit on the train into the city every day is unexpectedly very sick.
It is the new year—the Chinese New Year—and we just celebrated with a delicious meal at a favourite restaurant with my in-laws last weekend. At the end of last year I was experiencing some frustrations sourcing the perfect yarn for some upcoming projects.
Now it’s time to decide on which buttons to sew onto my long awaited Tangled Yoke cardigan. I went to Dressew last week and spent far too long looking at their extensive button collection.
Here’s a children’s book to delight the knitter in all of us. Unfortunately it’s out of print, but still available through used book sellers and I found this copy at the public library.
The Long Red Scarf by Nette Hilton and illustrated by Margaret Power
Grandpa covets the long, woolly scarf his friend, Jake wears when they go fishing together.
I gives me such a thrill when knitters send me pictures of the sweaters they’ve knit using my patterns. I love seeing the colourways they choose. I especially love it when they send a photo of the sweater in action–that is, being worn by the baby for whom it was knit.
We’ve been having uncharacteristically foggy weather for several days now. I think it’s affecting my memory. I still can’t find the yarn and now I can’t find a book I was given for Christmas.
Where or where can it be?? I can’t find the yarn I so neatly washed and reskeined to complete my Tangled Yoke sleeve. I must have put it “away” when I tidied up a bit before company came over.
I needed a portable project to take to Hana’s skating class yesterday …
My sock yarn collection is growing (like you couldn’t have guessed that) and I’ve been wanting to try out Colinette’s Jitterbug.
The Tangled Yoke Cardigan isn’t forgotten. I wet blocked it to try to get rid of the puckering around the cabled area on the yoke. I really stretched out the cabled area and the puckering isn’t too bad.
