Category Archives: Photography

A Little Hello

It’s been a while and life has been busy. Nothing new there I guess, but it is nice to connect again!

I have been working (at Mad About Ewe) with a young woman named Amy West. She knows a lot more about computers and programs than I do and she has been putting my broken site back together. Amy and I still have a way to go, but it is happening and I am so happy!

This years retreat is coming up quickly and I am busy writing up the handout. All of the samples have been knit and I like the technique, Tuck Stitch Knitting. I have added some simple short-rows to one of the tuck patterns to really make the stitch structure pop! To me that pattern looks like cascading water, tumbling down a rock face, so I have named the Retreat Pattern “Rills” for those small cascading streams.

Heads and Hands in Drops Karisma wool, waiting for the retreat. Can you see the Rills?

The dimensional shapes in Tuck Knitting are created by lifting stitches from rows below the one that you are working on. See Tracy Purtscher’s book Dimensional Tuck Knitting for more information.

Rills Cowl – One of the choices for a retreat project.

I still try to get in a walk or two every weekend – but I have been lax at times – sometimes I feel just too busy or my knitting is really holding my attention. Last weekend I did walk at Elk Falls with my daughter! What an incredible park!

Suspension Bridge over Elk Falls.
Marsh at Moorecroft Park in Nanose.

I love Moorecroft Park – there is such a wide range of landscapes all within a small area. Sea and shore with a wonderful little bay; meadow up and away from the shore and next to it, a wonderful marsh, the perfect home for birds and beavers. I have seen eagles here, herons, myriads of birds. And down in the bay sea lions, lazing about! Fabulous!

I am participating in Kate Davies Knitting Season right now. It is all about design and how we think and create. What makes us as designers, keep on creating and what stops us from creating. It is also about being mindful of where you are and of what you are thinking. It is helping me focus and reminds me of the need to keep the focus on the important things in my life. Things like self care, family, knitting and design!

What do you do to keep your life on track? What is important to you?

Roamin’ Hap or Lizzies’ Shawl – knit with Millarochy tweed.

For the Knitting Season, I am working on a project that is related to the Roaming Hat. I am working on a hap styled shawl in the same yarns, Millarochy Tweed, with the same motifs as the hat.

Did you know that the hat was published in the Kate Davies book Millarochy Heids! I was so chuffed! Photo’s below are courtesy of Kate Davies Designs.

Over Departure Bay the most glorious of sunrises keep on starting my days.

Sunrise over Departure Bay earlier this week.

Happy Knitting

Lynette

New Flowers!

Yellow Lilies!

Vivid yellow

Today we walked at Morden Colliery Park.  It was grey with a light drizzle – lovely walking weather.  The paths were edged in brilliant green and the tree branches were greening up overhead!  The side paths looked like fairy lanes!  Such an alive walk!

We saw two new (to us) flowers!  The most exciting were yellow lilies, a member of the Fawn Lily family, but with larger leaves and a more clustered growth pattern.  Curly Lilies have all separate leaves and stems, no clumping; the yellow lilies all seemed to grow in clumps or clusters.  In 20 years of walking around Nanaimo I have never seen the yellow lilies!  Today our timing was perfect!

It was a perfect walk in other ways as well – so many flowers were coming into bloom or just finishing their season!

Pacific Bleeding Hearts are carpeting the surrounding forest floor!

Hookers Fairy Bell

We saw lots of Pacific Bleeding Heart, Trilliums in all colours – pure white to deep purple.  I don’t often see so many perfect “old” trilliums!  And we saw another new flower.  This one is called Hookers Fairy Bell.  It is another small white flower, perfectly beautiful!

I hope that you enjoy the view!

Happy Walking

Lynette