This is the last bonus square of the blanket project. After this post there are only two squares and two fancies remaining! It is hard to believe that we are so close to the end of the project.
I had a lot of fun with this square!
My grandmother is from Belfast. She came to Canada in 1921 or 1922. She came over with her young son (my father’s big brother) and her sister, to start a new life in Canada. Less than 2 months later she married my Grandfather and her family continued to grow. She also came with superstitions like Stingy Jack, and Angel Mistakes.
Her sister, my Great Aunt Peggy, spent one memorable visit teaching me how to knit when I was 15. She also taught me about Angel Mistakes. Whereby only the Angels were perfect and only they could create perfection, so us lowly knitters, were allowed, nay encouraged to make the odd mistake. I try to teach that to my knitting students… it doesn’t always take, some are perfectionists.
My father was particularly fond of carving pumpkins! He wasn’t artistic, but he was enthusiastic. As we got older we were encouraged to draw the faces, and then take on the carving!
Jack’s My Name, Halloween Is My Game! 🎃
Long before pumpkins became the grinning faces of Halloween, people in Ireland and Scotland were carving lanterns from turnips and other root vegetables.
The tradition is often linked to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a clever trickster who managed to outwit the Devil but ultimately found himself unwelcome in both Heaven and Hell. Condemned to wander the darkness, Jack carried a glowing ember inside a hollowed-out turnip to light his way.
And so the legend of Jack of the Lantern — or jack-o’-lantern — was born.
When Irish immigrants brought their traditions to North America, they discovered pumpkins. Larger, softer, and considerably easier to carve than turnips, pumpkins quickly became the lantern of choice.
Over time, the eerie lanterns became the cheerful, mischievous, and sometimes downright wicked faces we associate with Halloween today.
Which brings us to my own little collection of Jacks.
These fellows may be knitted rather than carved, but they have plenty of personality. And judging by those grins, I suspect they’re up to no good!
This square will require a little more patience than some of the others. There are several techniques to juggle, and the stitches change frequently as those mischievous faces begin to emerge.
Knitting Jack is rather like carving Jack. A little challenging at times, occasionally surprising, but immensely satisfying when those grinning faces finally appear.
And should an Angel Mistake creep into your knitting, Great Aunt Peggy would certainly approve.
What do you get when you combine a chance comment on an old piece of knitting. Once a swatch, now a small kerchief (swatches, especially lace one, used to be quite large).
Plus an unexpected find – later that same day – of three skeins of Rasta…
You get an opportunity to play hooky!
I wear this little kerchief quite a bit. It is one of the few neutral things in my wardrobe, as I have a fondness for colour.
I get more than a few positive comments on this. And that Friday was no different. What was different was when I got home I did a little work on my new yarn room.
And I found the Rasta.
And inspriration struck.
So I played hooky from my “real” knitting to create the Playing Hooky shawl/cape. Because it was Rasta, it only took the weekend to knit.
It has taken considerably longer to write the pattern. But here it is — Playing Hooky. Tapping on the link will take you to the pattern on Ravelry. Use the code HOOKY for a 30% discount.
Happy Knitting
Lynette
AI generated cartoon – computerized knitting machine confounded by hand-knitting designer
It is so hard to believe that after this month, there will be only three squares left to get to the planned sixteen squares. How fast this year has gone!
It is fall here on the West Coast. The temperature has dropped, the leaves are turning and it has started to rain. And thank heavens for the rain! It was way too dry this summer.
Fall almost always has me thinking of the past. The past year and the past years.
Do you save up memories? You know, those moments that you experience that you want to be able to revisit, so you drink in every moment and try to preserve it in your mind’s eye. I have a few of those moments.
One of them is a fall moment:
I am 13. We have just moved back to the Okanagan and were living in a house on Mount Boucherie. My parents were looking for a house across the lake in Kelowna. While they looked, I still had to go to school.
The school wasn’t too far away if you crossed through the orchards. Which I did.
One morning, it was so frosty that the grasses crunched and the leaves and few apples left on the trees were sparkly. The air was thick and moist, foggy. And that orchard was magic. I walked through, taking it all in.
I was in the habit of eating an apple as I crossed through the orchard. The pickers had missed a few and they tasted so good!
This morning, the apple tasted even better. So good. I had never tasted an apple so sweet and so crisp.
I learned later that certain fruit, like some apples and grapes, improve when they get frostbitten.
This was my fall moment, and my inspiration for this month’s square.
So if you like vintage looks — with or without beads — this set might tickle your fancy.
Life here has been busy. I played hooky one weekend. I will tell you all about it in my next blog post.
And I went down to Victoria to see my daughter and went to Gala Fabrics. I, umm, may have bought a few items. A very dangerous store.
Right beside the till, a very dangerous spot, was this innocent looking bowl of buttons. They were all made of stone. And there were enough to actually use on a project – as yet unknown. My button box thanks me!
I am looking forward to a great start to autumn, aren’t you?
In September 2027, I’ll be heading to Alaska aboard the Discovery Princess for a very special knitting cruise – Dancing Lights: Alaska 2027.
I’ll be teaching knitting workshops, sharing two specially designed projects, and, of course, there will be plenty of knitting, laughter and time spent enjoying Alaska through a designer’s eyes.
The cruise information is now live, and I’m delighted that I can finally share it!
There is so much more to come. Over the next year I’ll be sharing peeks at the projects, yarn, inspiration and some of the preparations happening behind the scenes.
I think about colour a great deal. As a designer, colour is a very important part of my design process. As a person, colour is an even more important part of my life, of your life. Colour is embedded in how we describe experience.
1. Colour is already in our language
We experience a lot of things in colour. Have you thought of how many times we use colour to define the moment? Here are a few familiar ones:
seeing red
caught red-handed
red-letter day
paint the town red
in the pink
tickled pink
feeling blue
out of the blue
once in a blue moon
blue blood
green around the gills
the grass is always greener
green thumb
give the green light
golden opportunity
golden years
heart of gold
black sheep
black mood
black-and-white thinking
white lie
white as a sheet
waving the white flag
grey area
silver lining
born with a silver spoon
purple prose
Do we even notice when we’re doing it? We use colour as shorthand for emotion, character, value, danger and even morality. As knitters, whether we are aware of it or not we are always assessing colour. For example, which shade of red is the correct one for your next sweater project? Christmas Red – which can sometimes be confused with Va Va Voom Red, or Vintage Red, something a little quieter and warmer in the Red family?
I picked Christmas red, which may have been a mistake, not because I don’t like the way the sweater is turning out, but because the association is so strong, people seeing the sweater are calling it a Christmas sweater. Not bad, just unexpected.
2. Colour affects how something feels
Think of the emotional associations in things such as golden-hour sunlight, a storm-blackened sky, new spring green, the grey-blue of a rainy day, the brilliant colour after rain, autumn leaves, candlelight, fresh snow, fog, a spectacular sunset, or the almost artificial colours of the northern lights.
And colour can communicate without words: red warning signs and stop lights; green meaning go; fluorescent safety clothing; white bridal clothing in one cultural context; black mourning clothes; school and team colours; national flags.
Have you noticed how the same colour can produce opposite feelings depending on its companions. Red can be romantic, joyful, dangerous, angry, luxurious or cheap. Blue can be peaceful or melancholy. Green can suggest spring and growth—or illness and decay.
We have a personal colour memory. You can walk into a room painted in the same shade of pink as your grandmothers kitchen or see a garment in a faded shade of brown and be reminded of a place or person that your memory has associated with that colour.
Colours that we associate with something, or someone, in memory remain important to us, and the memories can linger for a very long time. Purple was the colour of choice the first time my parents decorated my bedroom for me. Purple curtains, purple drapes, and Oh God! purple flocked wall paper. Purple (click link to check out that bedroom) as a colour was my favourite then and is still my favourite colour now, as one of my very old blog posts can attest.
3. Colour isn’t decoration in knitting
Right now I am working on “The Sunday Series” an intensive class that is examining colour and how it reacts as it is put beside other colours in a garment.
We started with the Sunday Slouch – a gauge swatch hat. That wasn’t its only purpose; it allowed the students to see how well the colours played with each other. It came about because as I was knitting my sweater I realised that my original colours weren’t working. The first 3 inches of colourwork on my sweater were ripped back and I started again with a couple of new colours and some of my original colours, including my main.
So I designed the Sunday Slouch. A gauge swatch hat that would also allow the students to test out the colours they had selected for their own sweaters. And test them they did.
One student was totally satisfied with her colours. Another only changed one colour, but the others? They had to play a little bit harder to get to where they were happy with their colour choices.
Isn’t this a fabulous collection of colour – and you can see in here two different reds (to continue with the red theme) and how different each hat is – my Christmas Red, cheerful and bright, and then the warmer, more subdued red.
I had AI set up a chart for me with the hats and colours analysed.
Colour creates the pattern, but it also establishes hierarchy and rhythm. Change which colour dominates and the same chart can look remarkably different. Increase the contrast and it becomes graphic; reduce it and the pattern becomes quieter and more textural.
My students discovered this all firsthand. Everyone chose their original colours carefully, but they still needed to shift/change some colours before they started their sweater! The swatch hat did its job.
Colour also creates proportion. We are all working with six colours. If we used them all equally, except perhaps for striping, it could look chaotic. Used properly, the same six colours – one dominant, two supporting and three appearing as highlights – the knitting takes on a control and a sophistication.
The patterning I am using is borderline chaotic as I have been trying to use the bulk of the patterning colours fairly evenly, but spread throughout the garment. I have kept the background very defined to keep the colours under control. Cheerful is how I am thinking of the effect.
When we talk about colour and colour in our knitting there is the “unexpected” colour. The colour that doesn’t seem to fit at first glance, but becomes the colour that makes the other colours sing together and move naturally in the mix. For my sweater the unexpected colour is the light blue. It is the one colour that was both different and important. Its job in my sweater was to cut down any similarity to Christmas, and change the emotional “feel” of my background colour. It does it for me – though not for everyone. Many still call this my Christmas sweater.
So, for fun, the next time you pick a colour, think about why you chose it.
I am really missing my garden. And it is not that I am a serious gardener. I just plant and pray that things will grow. But I am a serious lover of gardens and enjoy them wholeheartedly.
It took thirty years to develop the back yard in the old house and the last year of waiting for and then renovating the new place has not allowed time for really thinking about my outdoor space. That is about to change. The landscapers will be coming in about 3 weeks and I am so excited.
So I have been thinking about gardens, in particular, my new garden, a great deal. I won’t be able to get the landscaping done all at once. It will take a few years to get the whole yard finished. But right now I have two things planned.
1.) A small perennial garden for bees and other pollinators, with a small tree as a center focus. A Pink Dogwood – so pretty and delicate looking. Around it will be Coneflowers, Salvia, Russian Sage and Wooly Sunflower and something called Little Bunny, a small grass – which I had to look up. This garden will be in our small front yard, and will add privacy and interest.
2.) I need to create a new herb garden. My old one was built by me, 30 years ago. I laid out the bricks in an old-fashioned square grid and filled each grid with different herbs and flowers. It was my favourite place in the yard. It delighted me and the bees both. I could and did sit out there for hours, knitting or reading.
My new herb garden will be quite different. We live in a bit of a hollow with a long bank down one side of the property. The landscaper is going to build a rock wall along part of the bank and fill it with dirt to level out and create a garden area. I will share the results sometime in September.
So our new garden won’t be like the old but it will have some wonderful things in it as well. It already has a beautiful rhodo and a gorgeous hydrangea on the front side of the bank. That area may get developed more next Spring.
Gardens and garden themes have always been important to me. Quite a few of my patterns have been influenced by gardens. The August Bonus Square is the newest of my garden-inspired knits.
The pattern includes a photo tutorial of how to create the Daisy Chain stitch.
The Daisy Chain stitch is a fun knit. A little fiddly but worth the payback as every 4 rows of the pattern creates almost an inch of fabric. It is also a great pattern for using up the bits of coloured yarn leftover from our other squares.
I also think that interesting textural stitches like this are often overlooked. They can look more difficult than they really are. Or maybe we don’t want to think beyond what we always knit. I believe that sometimes we miss out when we don’t try those new things, those new stitches.
Why Daisies? I have always loved daisies and all daisy-shaped flowers. Coneflowers, Lion Daisies and the lovely little English Daisies that grow wild amongst the grasses. Daisies and pansies (my other favourite flowers) were the flowers in my wedding bouquet. These flowers have faces and can come in so many different colours. And it is August, and I am missing my garden and so I unearthed the Daisy Chain Stitch. It just made sense to play with them in this square.
I have used it a couple of times before. In a little hat for the purple hat campaign, Daisy Chain Cap. It made such a cute child’s cap. The other pattern is a shawl pattern, Peace, Love and Understanding.
Do you label yourself? What is your view of yourself? Is it defined by your work, your hobby, your family? How do you view the way you interact with the world?
I know that I define myself by what I do now – what I did in the past helped form what I do now but does not define how I see myself now. For example, when my children were younger I defined myself as a mother. That definition is part of me but is not how I define myself now.
I am a Maker first and foremost. I make things.
Mostly, I knit. And when I knit, I design.
Then there is everything else. I love to cook. And bake. And make jam. I particularly love to make jam. I find it very meditative and soothing. I grow herbs in my garden to add to my cooking. Does that qualify as making? It does in my world.
And I sew clothing for myself when I am in the mood.
Crabapple Jelly in the Sunlight.
Everything I do leads to everything else I do. The colour of the jelly leads to me looking for the colour in my stash – couldn’t find it – so I settle for a bright pink. The colour of the gorgeous sunset last night.
In your knitting are you influenced by your environment? Does a walk in the woods or along a lake make you look at the shadows created by sun and leaves and see a lace pattern or watch the waves along the shore and see the classic old shale pattern?
Or are you more influenced by a direct need or want?
For example my latest Fall Intensive Class started with my students. There was a request for a cardigan type of sweater as a major class. Then other requests – I really want to try a shawl collar – could it be fair-isle – I have never tried raglan sleeve shaping – what about a simpler version of the sweater. As I mulled those requests, I was heavily influenced by my interest in a new sweater for myself. In red.
So the base colour for the sweater is red. And a few of my favourite colours for the patterning. Plus I need to make sure that there are a few other skills involved in making the sweater. So let’s do a traditional Fair Isle sweater, that will also include a steek, afterthought pockets, a belt, plus the requests.
AI generated sketch of the pattern based on my notes and actual sweater to date.
So I designed a long Fair Isle cardigan, with a raglan sleeve shaping and a big shawl collar and the fine tuning details I thought needed to be added. Including a simpler style sweater. One that picks up some of the details of the original cardigan, ribbing, v-neck and raglan sleeve shaping.
AI generated sketch of the simpler sweater based on the sweater knitting to date – complete except for the raglan shaping.
Once I started knitting my red sweater I realized I hated my original colour choices. So I ripped out the 4 inches of knitting beyond the ribbing, picked new colours and started the sweater patterning again. Much better colour choices. Umm, my students might have the same problems, so I designed and knit up a gauge swatch hat. Now I have a means for my students to check out their original selections and save them ripping out the sweater itself.
AI generated sketch of gauge swatch hat.
If I could create a flow chart from what I am, a Maker, to how I break down what I do, I wonder what it would look like.
Again, an AI generated sketch of my fall plans and projects.
Projects for Fall Classes
These smaller projects are part of the same circle of making. Each one explores a particular technique or idea that can turn up later in a completely different project.
1.) The Grand Shell Collar – due to the popular response to the pattern I have added it to the Fall schedule of classes.
2.) Mosaic Hat – Mosaic colourwork is a fun alternative to traditional Fair Isle – and “look Mum – no stranding”.
3,) Colouring with Cables – I decided to explore the Beret style hat and this hat was an outgrowth of playing around with top-down beret shaping. Which was a total bust – but it became the happy outcome of a really cute hat with fun cables!
The Beret is such a classic shape I decided to give it a really good look this Fall, which resulted in the last two classes of the Season.
4.) Classic Beret – nothing new here just a clear, classic beret with a few fine details, folded hem, dip stitch detailing and felted pompom to jazz it up.
5.) Fulled (felted) Beret – classic beret shaping knit oversize to felt to size. Beret starts from I-cord to create a more interesting edge detail.
It’s August already – the last full month of Summer. Before long September will arrive, bringing with it a whole new rhythm of busy days. Sometimes I wonder… can life really get any busier?
I don’t know about you, but I already feel busy enough.
It has been a wonderful month. I spent some quality time with Beth and we went walking at Neck Point Park. It is my favourite park in Nanaimo. We have been going there for over 30 years, even before it became an official park. We would walk, picnic on the cliffs and explore the beaches. It was a haven from life’s chaos, no matter what time of day we visited.
I have also spent a fair amount of time knitting the samples for my fall classes. They are finally coming together, and I’m looking forward to sharing them with you next week.
Threads of Colour – August Square is Live
Blackberry season came early this year. It has been so hot and so dry – the berries have ripened early and don’t have quite their usual texture and juiciness. But they are still beautiful and their colour is still ripe and vibrant. The blackberries were the inspiration for this month blanket square.
Purple berries on a Green background inspired the Bead Stripe Square.
This month’s Fancy is pretty Fancy. I went a little off the beaten path for this one. So much so that it actually got its own blog post. See the story here. I was pretty excited when I got this one completed.
As you can see it got the star treatment. Buttons and Beads and a little bit of shimmer from the yarn itself.
If you have never worked with beads before check out this blog post for more information and tutorials. I also think this collar would be beautiful without the beads. It only takes less than 100 m of fingering weight yarn. Got some spare light fingering weight that you want to play with?
Whats Next for our Blanket
Well I have decided what I want to do with my squares. I hope that you like this idea, if not, I will be sharing other options, but I think I have pretty much figured out what I want. Even with that I have two options. I do love options.
With either option I will be working on the diagonal.
AI assist adding the navy blocks to the 4 voids for clarity.
With this option I will have to knit a lot of plain squares. I am using Navy as my edging/finishing colour. If I went this way every patterned square would stand out for the beauty it is with the navy as the backdrop. Knitting a lot of plain squares is a bit of a deterrent for me. I get bored easily. On the other hand, they would make excellent tv knitting.
This is the option I am leaning towards. I would have to knit quite a few doubles of the patterned squares or design more of the squares themselves to make the blanket as big as I like. With the diagonal as well I particularly like the cut off corners. It makes for a more interesting shape. If I go for the diagonal layout I think that I might make my blanket a square.
I really like the diagonal layouts. They are unexpected, almost more quilt like. They seem to offer more interest than the straight up and down layouts.
How to Knit the Triangular Filler
Working with a worsted yarn and 4.5mm US#6 needle, cast-on 2 sts.
Turn work, K1, M1, K1. Turn work – knit back
Turn work, K1, M1, K1, M1, K1. Turn work – knit back
Turn work, K1, M1, K3, M1, K1. Turn work – knit back
Turn work, K1, M1, K5, M1, K1. Turn work – knit back
You can see the progression developing. Each time you start a new RS row there will be 2 stitches more between the M1’s. Continue in this way until there are 56 sts in your triangle. Bind-off.
Triangles will need to be blocked.
How to Knit the Diagonal Filler – solid block garter stitch
If you are interested in creating the solid block fillers. Work the filler triangle, but after increasing to 56 sts – Knit 2 rows – start decreasing.
K1, SSK, knit to last 3 sts, K2tog, K1 – 2 stitches decreased. Turn work – knit back
Continue in decreasing pattern until you have 2 sts left.
Bind-off and block to size.
I’ll continue experimenting with finishing ideas for the blanket over the next month, and I’ll be back in September with another square – and another possibility for bringing the blanket together. Until then enjoy these last weeks of Summer.
This month’s Fancy is getting its own blog post. I think it deserves one. It is a little “more” than an average fancy.
I’ve been asking around for ideas for the Fancy line of projects, an offshoot of the Blanket Project.
I wanted something small, but interesting,
Something Fancy.
Something memorable.
Amongst other things a collar was suggested. I have knit a few collars, The Grand Pavillion Collar and The Pretty Blue Collar are a couple of examples. My original thought was to keep this one simple. Umm… that didn’t last very long.
Part of the house organizing is going through my stash and thinning it out. I have not been very successful to date, I get sidetracked easily. For example, I found this stunning yarn in my stash.
A fingering weight Cotswold lambswool. It is from a farm on Pender Island, Inish Eile, and is something I purchased at Fibrations last year.
As I learned more about Cotswold sheep, I discovered they are now a rare breed. Their history stretches back to the Cotswold Hills of England, where sheep have been raised since Roman times. Suddenly this skein in my stash feels even more special.
Shimmering grey with soft gold highlights, this yarn demanded something more than a simple design. Perhaps some beads. I could work with that. In fact, I would love to work with that. The yarn itself is amazing. The colour and shimmer holds the eye and has a depth no dyer could possibly create – only nature.
So I started to play with buttons, beads, and stitches. I sketched an idea and then knit a swatch. The swatch confirmed what the sketch had only hinted at – the yarn had found its pattern.
While I really loved the dark beads, their rich colour created a dramatic Art Deco feel against the golden-grey wool that wasn’t where my mind was going. Maybe next time. The cream beads, however, made a quieter statement, allowing the beauty of the yarn itself to emerge slowly.
I love Vintage pieces. This yarn made me think of something rich and classical. So I went to a classic knitting shape, the shell. A shape with a wonderful balance between open and closed space. A shape, that when knit would create a wonderful edge that only got better with the addition of beads.
The stitch pattern is the Grand Shell. It is similar to the shell shape I used once before – on my entry for the Magic of Mohair Competition. That design later appeared in Vogue Knitting, introducing my work to many knitters for the first time. It seemed fitting that this beautiful Cotswold wool should bring the Grand Shell to life.
Photo credit Rose Callahan
Sometimes the right yarn reminds us of ideas worth revisiting.
Some projects are planned. Others seem to choose themselves.
Does your yarn “speak” to you? Can you tell what it wants to be when you pull it out of your stash? Do you think that there is meaning to rediscovering something, not lost, just misplaced and out of mind?
It is July already and I am not quite sure how I got here. How are you feeling? Is time getting faster in your world this year?
I have really been focused on The Blanket Project, Threads of Colour – A Year in Squares for the last six months. And the Renovation. And now the final bit of the last years move – the Organization. In between I try to fit in some life. This last week had a lot of “life” in it.
La Dolce Vita – living a life.
It has been a beautiful Sunny week. With a little bit of rain here and there. We popped up to Fanny Bay Inn to meet some family on Wednesday and had a lovely lunch. it was a gorgeous day and the views were spectacular.
On Saturday we drove down to Victoria to catch some baseball with our Grandson. The afternoon before the game we popped over to Cadboro Bay for lunch and a wander down to the beach. Tom had read about a new Olympic sport being practiced there. It was a combination of running and rowing and then running again – Rowing Beach Sprint. It was being run in timed heats. It showed potential I think.
As for the game – the Harbour Cats won the night and Logan was thrilled.
We stayed the night and made our way leisurely back up Island. We stopped at Goldstream and wandered a bit. Checked out the Farmers market and had lunch with some friends… A very satisfactory week in all.
So I took a few photos over the week as we travelled.
A beautiful view with a perfect Gary Oak at Fanny Bay Inn.Fanny Bay Inn has a lovely little garden.Rain dapple Hydrangea – I love watching how these flowers open up.Roses in the rain.Sun reflecting off the Moon one morning this week.Cadboro Bay – watching a new Olympic sport develop. Running and rowing.Sun dappled new growth at the point of a broken off branch! Such a vivid green.Looking Waayy up at Goldstream Park.More new growth at Goldstream.
Threads of Colour – the July Square and Fancy
I have a new block and a fancy for you today.
For the block I went with the tried and true. One of my favourite Shetland Lace patterns, Old Shale, is always beautiful and always effective. Here it is representing Waves. Reminding me of Summer leisure time, idling away hours at the beach, swimming and reading.
Are you a Summer reader? I read more in the Summer than I do in the winter. Light reading, science fiction, mystery and romances to while away time when I feel too hot to knit. And not so light reading, research for my fall classes and patterns – I love delving into my knitting book collection and playing with ideas!
So this month I took a look at double knitting and decided the technique would create a fun fancy. How about a bookmark to go with the Summing Reading.
This one is light weight, totally revesible and was a really fun, quick knit!
The July block is the start of the second half of our block collection. If you have knit all of the blocks so far you will have 8 blocks completed. I am having fun playing with technique and colour and hope to add a few more colourful, textural options in the next couple of months.
Planning Ahead
If you have been knitting every block you will have 8 blocks completed. I will be knitting 20 blocks for my blanket (maybe 24) so I have to decide which Squares I like best and knit an extra one or two. If you want a more Afghan sized blanket your will need to double up on a few of your squares as well. The 12 or 16 squares I have planned for the year will make more of a lap robe sized blanket.
I have started to play around with how to connect our blocks into an interesting and useful blanket. Of course we could keep it simple with just the basic connections outlined. Those ideas will be covered. As well as a few more unique ideas. More on that in the next blog post.
Happy Knitting
And Happy Canada Day!
Lynette
Our Collection to date. Only the February fancy is not here. It is currently attached to a hat, which is somewhere in my very disorganized yarn room.
