Category Archives: Family

Still Waiting….

Fall is in the air and on the ground.
Fall is in the air and on the ground.

… But Fall is in the air, Football is back on TV and all is right in the World.  The baby will come when babies come.  Sunday, Sept 13 was the due date – but a first baby is seldom on time.  LOL!

Forget-me-nots are blooming beside the Millstone River.
Forget-me-nots are blooming beside the Millstone River.

Life is back to its normal rhythm.  I work during the week, we walk on weekends and I knit all of the time!

This last weekend we walked through Bowen Park and the Morden Colliery Park.  Leaves are falling and in the morning there is a real feel of coolness in the air.  The last week has brought some moisture to the ground as well.  There is damp loamy smell around us as we walk that has been missing all summer.

My favorite walk in Bowen Park is along Millstone River.  Right now Millstone is not much of a River – it is more creek like as it moves through the park.  I love walking under the branches of the trees beside the River, listening to the rills of water as they tumble down towards the harbour.  It is a peaceful place.

I love this View!  I have seen it calm and serene in the Summer and wild and raging in the Winter as the water pounds and pours through on its trip to the Ocean!
I love this View! I have seen it calm and serene in the Summer and wild and raging in the Winter as the water pounds and pours through on its trip to the Ocean!
Still Pools capturing perfect reflections.
Still Pools capturing perfect reflections.

Morden Colliery is a different kind of walk.  A little wilder, the land is on an old coal mine and the trail an old rail bed.  It goes over marsh – right now beautiful grasslands surrounding still pools – it has been such a dry summer.  The grasslands are alive with birds and song.  The path moves from the mine to the marsh and on to the River.

The Big Leaf Maple trees are large around the path.  Thick old trunks covered in moss and towering overhead.  There was a heavy breeze and the tops of the surrounding trees groaned and creaked as they moved.

Maple seeds hanging heavily overhead.
Maple seeds hanging heavily overhead.

The Maple seeds are turning rapidly brown.  The trees branches were heavily laden with the Fall offering.  They were helicoptering down onto my head through the whole walk!

I felt like a child again, memories of playing with maple seeds playing through my  mind.

The dry grassy marshes allowed me new views.
The dry grassy marshes allowed me new views.

It has been a busy Summer.  Lot’s knitting, lot’s of family and lots of life.

I am now on Instagram – as LeTissierDesigns – please come by and say hello if you are there too.  I find that I like taking a quick shot and sharing what is happening around me.  It is mostly about my knitting and just a little about life.

As you know I am about to become a Granny.  I have been knitting just a few things for the baby, LOL! – it will get worse as the baby gets older – I am going to have so much fun!  You can expect some children’s patterns to start appearing in the next few months and years to come.

Beaded Baby Booties
Beaded Baby Booties
Spirit Bear - first of three designs for the Cowichan Style sweater class.
Spirit Bear – first of three designs for the Cowichan Style sweater class.

Right now my focus is on the fall classes for the store.  Beaded Baby Booties, and Cowichan Style Sweaters and Hats are the two new classes.  Very contrasting both in sizing and techniques!  For more on the Classes check out the Mad About Ewe Class Schedule.

I am also working on new ideas for the Retreat.  It will be coming up fast and it is always a challenge to come up with interesting, new projects.

How has your Summer been!  Lots of company family and visiting?  Or have you been the travellers?

Whatever your Summer I hope that is has been a great one!

Happy Knitting

Lynette

Blogging Missed! A New KAL and more!

It has been a stunningly beautiful Summer here. Neck Point one morning.
It has been a stunningly beautiful Summer here. Neck Point one morning.

I have missed writing my blog – but my Summer has been jam-packed with activity!  Knitting, Working and Family have consumed my Summer days and hours, for a wonderful, exciting time, but I have missed writing the blog!

I hope to get more organized with my time this Fall – so that I can get back to regular blogging.

What has been happening?  Well ….

Koigu ….

Tapestry II Shawl for Koigu 7
Tapestry II Shawl for Koigu 7
Walkaway Peplum Top for Koigu 7. Knit with Koigu Lace.
Walkaway Peplum Top for Koigu 7. Knit with Koigu Lace.
Walking away - I love the back details.
Walking away – I love the back details.

It all started in the Spring.  I had submitted a couple of ideas to the Koigu Magazine for issue 7.  They were accepted.

So I was madly knitting the little beaded sweater (my first ever sweater pattern in a magazine!), in Koigu Lace and then writing an article about adjusting shawl patterns for different weights of yarn.  Tapestry II was the second piece, a heavier weight shawl adapted from the Tapestry shawl pattern that I had designed and knit for Koigu 6.  Those items took me to the beginning of Summer.

Tapestry for Koigu 6.
Tapestry for Koigu 6.

Then ….

Love Is …. KAL

project badgeThe Buffalo Wool Co and I decided to host a Super Summer Mystery KAL.  The “Love is ….” Mystery KAL.  Everything was a mystery; the colour of the yarn, the pattern and the details.  We have all been having a lot of fun.

Designing, knitting and writing the pattern took a month or so and then the KAL started  Aug 1 and the last piece of the pattern is sent out Sept 4th.  That has taken some time up.  Really almost the whole Summer!

The “Love is …” KAL ends in a week or so and I will be able to share some pictures at that time.

And now ….

Four Hundred….

Four Hundred Shawl
Four Hundred Shawl
All Wrapped Up
All Wrapped Up

….A shawl and KAL for Mad About Ewe Fine Yarns!  This little shawl takes only 400 yards of yarn to knit and is full of fun, small details that will make it (and you) stand out from the crowd.

It had been pointed out that I didn’t have any small shawl patterns; no one pattern that would work with those special single skeins of yarn that we acquire for our stash.  I hastened to remedy this situation.  We were also discussing the possibilities for the next KAL.  Hence the “Four Hundred” Shawl and the next KAL for Mad About Ewe Fine Yarns.

Click on the title above to link to the pattern.  Four Hundred will be free for the month of September.  I hope that you enjoy the knitting.

Granny Knitting ….

Beth's Bump - about 2 weeks ago!
Beth’s Bump – about 2 weeks ago!

My daughter Beth is about to be a new Mum and I am going to be a Granny in a week or so.  I have been knitting, ahem, just a few little things for the new baby.

Caps and Booties and a little sweater.  I haven’t gone too crazy – babies grow so fast!  I don’t know the gender of the baby yet and that will affect my decisions of what to knit for the future as well.

I have cleaned and refurbished some old samples and pulled the special baby shawl I knit a few years ago for this very occasion out of storage and been preparing myself for this next voyage in my life.

So you see the Summer has been packed with activities and happenings!  I am just sorry that I couldn’t find the time to share them with you.

Happy Knitting

Lynette

Tapesty II - knit with Koigu KPPPM
Tapesty II – knit with Koigu KPPPM