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Darn internets! I lost the better part of last night to some internet research brought on by my Dad telling me that one of his friends once or twice a year has a cargo container coming over from England and there could be space made for a bike. So all I could think of after [...]

It’s a well know fact that guage swatches lie, and right now is proving to be no exception! Original swatch (a whole sweater that is waiting to be blocked!) was 16sts to 4″, this sweater is coming out at 20 sts to the 4″…same needles, same yarn, knit the same way… If Guage were a [...]

All weaving projects start this way… For a person who never cared for the Maths (although I had a crazy afinity for the numbers when it came to Accounting class, go figure!) in school, I have chosen lifestyle/hobbies that require a fair amount of it!

When a promotion says “for online users only” it means that you need to go ONLINE to take advantage of it. So really there is no point in getting all huffy and throwing around statements like “discrimination against computerless people” at the desk staff when they explain this to you. Oh and The Canadian Human [...]

This past weeks knitting was a test of patience and a learning experience, I spent it knitting and reknitting the heel on my Ubergeek sock. There were a myriad of short row heels tried: wrap and turn, Japanese short row and the no wrap or pickup version, all left me with holes, which made me [...]

AKA Ow my arse! Wednesday I rode Nigel part way downtown for a tune up and a few tweaks. If you were anywhere around Toronto yesterday you know just how windy it got and I (novice city rider that I am) was riding headlong into the thick of it. It was definitly one of those [...]

Abi was accepted into the French Immersion at the not so local school but due to logistics and day care issues we had to decline the space being held for her. So I’m feeling a bit of guilt that we may have made a crap decision that will have some horrific detrimental effect on Abi’s [...]

Am currently on take three of Norah and so far so good. My attempts to be manogamaous to one knitting project have failed…last week I recieved in the mail a package of some of the nerdyest yarn a girl could buy! That right there are two skeins of Cylon and one skein of Blue Sun [...]

There must be something in the water. I’m going to be casting on Norah (Non Ravelry) for the third time because this time I clearly have an issue with counting, the first frogging was a serious guage problem paired with my numbers being super wierd. I was really hoping it was an error in the [...]