Category Archives: Fixes

Have you Ever….

…. Started a New Project, get interrupted by other projects and just never get back to the other project!

Northern Lights Shawl

I know you have!  Well I know I have and that is just what happened to my blog!

Early last Spring I decided I wanted to update and expand my blog to create more of a website; somewhere where I could sell my patterns as well as share my pictures and thoughts.  It was time – I was running out of memory storage and needed to purchase more and a lot of things needed updating so with a lot of HELP from Ron Miskin of the Buffalo Wool Co we started to make changes!

And then life happened – to us both!

And now a year later – pretty much perfectly a year later – the new site is usable!  Out of the fog of this last year – tt still needs some work and you can expect some more changes over the next few months as we fine tune it!

Not all of my patterns are here – there are so many from the last year alone that need to be uploaded – but I will be adding all the time – as time allows!  LOL!

Spring is Finally here and Bursting with Promise!

I am still walking and taking masses of photographs!  I have missed my forum to talk about and share my experiences.

The next pattern I am going to upload is the Northern Lights Shawl.  This one is knit with Buffalo Wool Co BuffBoo, a bison, silk, bamboo blend.

Northern Lights is worked in panels, using three colours of Buffboo.  It is worked using the intarsia method of twisting the colours as they meet so that all panels are knit as a single row.  Each colour is a different lace stitch.  The colours and stitches move across the stole, and remind me of the Northern Lights as they dance across the Northern Skies.

Happy Knitting

Lynette

Pretty

My new stove - stainless and black - classic pretty!
My new stove – stainless and black – classic pretty!

My new stove arrived yesterday – be still my pounding heart!  A new stove is not generally what makes my heart pound – but this is the second new stove I have ever purchases and that is pretty exciting!

About 3 weeks ago my oven died.  It had been acting up for a while and it owes me nothing.  I had replaced a burner or two over the years and the convection heating element as well.  That stove had seen a lot of cooking in its lifetime!  But it was time for a new stove.

I learned a lot of things about stoves when shopping for this one;

a) convection ovens – a must, not an option – no longer come with coil tops stoves – they only come with smooth tops or gas tops!  The oven had to be a “true” convection oven – heat + fan – nothing else would do!  Gas was not an option, smooth top it would be.  This could be a bit of a learning curve – the timing will be different!  Smooth tops are a little slower to heat (and cool) than coil elements.

b) decent stoves are not cheap – even if not looking at a really high-end brand.

More pies, cookies and tarts in the my future - Strawberry pie from last years stove!
More pies, cookies and tarts in the my future – Strawberry pie from last years stove!

We bought a Kenmore.  From Sears.  I feel like my mother!  It does what I want and has a few extras; self-cleaning cycles – including steam clean, porcelain racks, a warming oven, lots of settings and a griddle for the bridge elements!

What it does not have – and what stove doesn’t have these! – is a plug-in – I didn’t check for that option – I have never used, or owned a stove that didn’t come with a plug-in option!

I see lots of baking/roasting and all out cooking in my future!

Have a great day!

Lynette