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

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

Low hanging ornamental plum blossoms. Beautiful against the blue sky.

It has been a year – OK only three and a half months – but it feels like a year – of changes and they just keep on coming. Changes in my children’s lives, changes in my friends lives and a dose of Spring Fever that is leaving me feeling restless! The best cure for restlessness is a walk in the woods.

My mind is abuzz with design idea’s and never enough time to create them all! I am getting better at writing without knitting first – but that is slow and does not satisfy my creativity as much as the knitting itself. The best cure for frustration is a walk in the woods.

Curly (Fawn) Liles carpet the old mossy road in the woods.

I wanted to do some work on my blog site – learning curves bit back! The only way to ease learning curves is a walk in the woods.

Woodland reflections in the flowing waters.

Not as much time for walking it seems as well! Though that is going back to normal! Between, visitors, a miserable cold and equally miserable weather – there was not much walking going on. The best cure for not walking in the woods is walking in the woods.

A Spotted Towhee, entertainment while walking in the woods.

But visitors are gone, cold is gone, weather is improving and life is going back to “normal” or what ever that is for me! I am walking in the woods.

Trilliums are just starting in the woods. Curly (Fawn) Liles, Maple and Dogwood blooms are bountiful right now in the woods. As are Yellow Violets and a few unknown (to me) blooms. The triple lobed leaf of the Trillium is pushing up all over the ground, following behind the Lilies.

It is Spring in the woods.

Ode to….

I have just released a pattern onto Ravelry, Ode to…. A classic, slightly slouchy colourwork toque. The green sample was knit with Cascade 220 Superwash Sport and the grey sample was knit with Buffalo Wool Co Buffalo Skies.

It will be free until Wednesday 7:00 am Pacific.

For Aunty Evie and other Logan Fans – Logan in the Jolly Jumper. Playing with a baby helps to keep one sane and happy. Who could not smile at a happy baby?!