Canadutch

Hey there!  Welcome to anyone who is a first time visitor that hopped by from yesterday’s post over at Fifty Shades of 4 Ply! Also, welcome back to my regular gang!  It’s been a while, right?  Well, I’m still kicking and have been knitting my butt off lately.  I have a lot of projects to update you all on, plus …

Remember back in 2012 when I completed my goal to learn to knit socks?  Well, I have a confession to make. At that time I learned to knit SOCK… singular.  Yup, I immediately got a case of single sock syndrome (where you finish the first sock but never get around to finishing the second. It’s an illness among sock knitters). …

Each year when we visit the south of France, we make a point of visiting the Odysseum shopping center in Montpellier.  We shop around a bit, go for lunch and maybe get an ice cream. Each year I eyed the same diner for lunch but we always ended up going somewhere else.  We went to another burger place, an Italian place, …

I have seen Lopi patterns and yarns around quite a lot and been curious about them, but have never worked with them myself.  I’d seen the yarn in different shops and thought it came in such great colors, but every time I touched it it put me off.  So hard and scratchy!  Having been used to softer yarns, the Lopi didn’t …

Yarn: Scheepjes Stone Washed XL  (850 – Garnet) Pattern: Sylvi (Ravelry) I’m so excited about this project, even though I keep putting it off as more urgent things come up.  I first added the pattern to my favorites on Ravelry last year and filed it away in my brain under “pipedream”… meaning, no way I’d ever be able to knit something that …

After visiting the workshop of Andre Debru Xander and I wanted to see a bit more of the Aveyron area. It was a beautiful day and we loved the scenery on the drive there so much, we thought we’d make a bit of a day of it.  Now that I have my license it’s a lot more fun for both …

A few weeks ago I was invited to visit the Scheepjeswol headquarters for a Bloggers Day event they were having this past Friday and I have been counting the days (hours, minutes…) ever since. They had arranged a day for a few of us crocheters and knitters to get together, learn a bit more about the company and tour the …

While on holiday in the south of France my husband and I went to visit the Roquefort caves with my mother-in-law.  On the way there we came across a roundabout with an art installation in the middle that caught our eye.  I’m generally not into art all that much but my MIL is an artist and both of us had …

As of this morning my Dreambird is officially finished. Well, almost… it’s all over but the drying.  I had to put off blocking it a little longer than I expected as we had people over and a lack of space to spread it out, but today I finally got it out on the blocking mats! I was totally over the …

Remember before I left for holiday I posted about my Autumn Dreambird Shawl and how I had become totally infatuated with the yarn?  Well, not a lot has changed, I’m still head over heels in love with this project.  I tried to work on it as much as I could while we were in France, but with places and people …

Last week Xander and I picked up his mom and headed off to Roquefort to check out the cheese caves. It’s something we have wanted to do for a while but we usually visit in the fall when the cheese is already made and the caves are empty. This year we were just in time to catch the end of …