cowichan sleeve final 2 Swatch at Tricksy Knitter
Monday 14 October 2013
Time to knit
The east meets west canadian sweater **WARNING - these images are not everyone's taste. keep moving if you find this offensive.**
September came and went in such a hurry. As soon as the weather changed, I felt the need to cuddle up with some yarn. I signed up for Ravelry and locked my sights on a Cowichan style sweater. My first attempt knitting in Fair isle and it's not as bad as i thought. It is coming along and I hoped to have it done before hunting season but i'm packing my bags and the sweater will be coming with me me but it will be to work on at night and not to keep me warm. Oh well, such is life. So far, I made all the colour charts on the Tricksy knitter website and found the pattern on Etsy. I changed the background colour to orange because i found it hard to read the charts when white was at the beginning or end of a row.
These are my charts:
Back:
Front left:
Front right:
Sleeves:
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Friday 30 August 2013
Pie crust
A long time ago when I started baking I decided to leave the "holy grail" of baking to the experts. That's right, I am talking about pies. A couple of weeks ago when I was at the farmers market I bought a whack of peaches and they were just too good. Unfortunately my husband couldn't try them because he is allergic to raw peaches and plums and a cornucopia of other things. I thought he just had to try them so I thought of ways to cook them and realistically the best thing to do with the is make a pie. And that's how it all began. Armed with my Williams Sonoma pie cook book and various recipes from pinterest, I came up with a recipe of my own and it turned out just the way I like my pie crust. I'm a happy girl and Hubby got to try the peaches.
Pies!!!
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| My very first pie dough |
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| Peach and blueberry for the first attempt |
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| Please be good |
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| First one turned out okay, so strawberry rhubarb is the next obvious step. |
Thursday 29 August 2013
The barrister bookcase bar
Craigslist find! An old barrister style bookcase was going to be perfect for a place for my hubby to display his scotch. It was missing a door and my husband hated it, but I thought it could still work. That leaded glass window was way too pretty to pass up. Two months after I bought it, the guy that sold it to me found the door and emailed me to see if I wanted it! Yes I did. I like the way it turned out and more importantly so does my husband.
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Wednesday 28 August 2013
Walker's canvas tee pee
This sewing project wasn't too difficult. The hardest thing was figuring out how big I wanted the tee pee to be and remembering basic math to calculate the radius. I turned out to be big enough for my 6'2" husband to hang out in. That's him in the picture:)
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