Remember last year when I knit Mike a Magic Chick Magnet Hat for his birthday? He said he definitely noticed some heightened interest from women whenever he wore that hat (as I predicted he would).

Well guess what? A couple of weeks ago he was in a bar on Elgin Street, and at the […]

I was lucky enough to be part of a big happy bunch of friends who celebrated Thanksgiving together at Carol’s place.

Here are some of the best cooks in the city:

Have you ever seen prettier ham? The turkey was quite handsome too.

Steve, before:

Steve: after:

Even the crumbs were good:

John:

Zita and Carol:

Andrea and the big girls:

Andrea and the […]

Sunday was the Knit-Out at the Experimental Farm. Not having any idea what a Knit-Out was, I decided to go. I pumped my bicycle tires up, but then I couldn’t find my bike key, so I walked to the Farm.

It seems a Knit-Out is an event to which you take your knitting and you […]

I think we hit 48 Celsius with the Humidex in Ottawa today. That’s what? (48-4) x 2 +32 = 120 Farenheit. When I stepped out of my air-conditioned office at 4pm, I felt like I was instantly swallowed by intense heat. It was so hot it almost hurt. It was alarming. On […]

This here is the Hola Yoga Mat Bag, from the new Mission Falls Homecoming pattern booklet. It’s knit in Mission Falls cotton. I thought it would be a quick knit since it looked so small in the pattern photo. I didn’t do a gauge swatch first (I know, I know) and I started […]

It’s been awhile since I wrote anything about my knitting. It’s not that I haven’t been knitting – I have indeed – it’s just that I find it hard to wax eloquent about it…knit one, purl one, knit one, purl one. Not like the Yarn Harlot, who can write about knitting in a way that […]