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Be a better blocker …

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of talk in the social media knitting groups regarding blocking. Ironic, seeing as I’ve been preparing a post about this very thing. When it comes to blocking, there seems to be quite a few opinions, ranging from people who never block their work, to people who only block lace work, to people who block everything and people somewhere in between. Now I’m not going to sit here and preach to you and tell you that you should block your work, but my preference is to block everything! There was a time when I […]

The Bright World of Wool …

This past weekend, we had the 3 installment of Knit City here in Vancouver and it was the best one yet! I took some photos and will have a review about it later this week, but I want to send a shout out to an amazing pair of artists that were there in this post. Nikki and Melissa are 2 fibre artists that live here in Salmon Arm, BC. If you’ve never been there, you’ll definitely want to check it out. To say it is picturesque is a bit of an understatement. Just a bit – lol. I met […]

Barrington 3.0

I’ve been a little busy over the last month organizing a photo shoot for the 3rd incarnation of the Barrington Braid scarf. Yesterday, with the help of Amy Rampfl we completed that little journey during a photo shoot of the new design. In the beginning it started out as just a cowl version of the scarf. However, because of the yarn that I used this time around, it turned out to be much more. Stay with me for a second here … You may have heard me rant in the past that manufacturers need to increase the size of […]

Thankful for …

For us folks here in Canada, today is the time of year when we celebrate Thanksgiving. I know it’s not celebrated around the world, but I think it’s one of the more important holidays, and we should all practice being thankful just because. Yesterday I celebrated the harvest (and the original reason for this holiday) with a turkey dinner with all the fixings with some great friends. Today, I’m doing a blog post of 10 things I’m thankful for in knitting … That many, many, years ago, somebody decided to take 2 sticks and some yarn and develop the […]

Crawl …

Episode 2 of the show is up. Here’s a trailer for this episode. You can follow the link at the end of it to buy/rent this episode, or all of them! Be sure to check our contest page later today to find out the contest of the week. A little hint … it’s based on content from this episode, so you’ll have to watch it to be able to win! Enjoy! Hugzzz 😎