It's Coming...

 Good Evening Internet Friends!!!

Parts of Alberta have received snow.  At this time we do not have snow here in Edmonton, but the forecast is for snow tomorrow.  

On that note y'all will know how much I LOVE my woolen knits here in this part of frozen Western Canada.  I have finished the first of my Fogo Island Mittens from the Salt Water Mittens series that I purchased through my Local Yarn Shop River City Yarns.  

These mittens are worked with 2 strands of wool so will be super warm.  Might need to pick up the pace and get these finished sooner than I planned on.

Hope this inspires your own creativity and wishing you all the BEST Day EVER Friday tomorrow.  Stay safe out there😷

Kathy

Where???

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Let me tell you first off that I had BIG plans for this weekend.  I was going to get ALL kinds of stuff done.  As of right now I am not really sure where my weekend went and other than bake a batch of sugar cookies that (may) have all been eaten and take a well deserved nap on Saturday afternoon I DID nothing.  Okay, I did manage to stay warm and with the current temperatures that we have that still seem to think they can go lower that is an accomplishment.

This evening while I baked a cake for a colleagues birthday tomorrow I did manage to make Block 26 of the 2018 Block a Week Challenge Hosted by A Needle Pulling Thread Quilt Shop:

Block 26!

Now meet Block 26 and Friends:

TAH DAH!!!

Hope this inspires your own creativity and wishing you all the 

BEST Tuesday EVER!!

Kathy

A Sort of Finish???

Happy New Year's Eve Internet Friends!

Still remains ridiculously cold here in Alberta.  My son and I did not even venture out to the Fireworks as the county recommended people remain at home.  😰😰😰🎆🎆🎆

To make is kind of an "event" we ordered Pizza.  Yes, that is a rare one for us but we did and we got delivery because I did not want to go out in the cold:

I have way TOOOO many projects on the go and all are partially completed.

This evening I did finish the first section of my Starting Point Wrap. This was a Knit ALong that I started last spring.  It was a 5 week KAL and as you can see as of this evening I have completed the first section so I am officially 40% complete.  I have no grandiose visions of having this finished in time for the one year time line but.........

Wishing everyone a Happy, and Safe New Year's Eve.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Home for the Holidays

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I can honestly say that we were indeed home for the holidays.

The temperature and the wind has been dropping every day.  Everyday it is COLDER than the day before.

We have gone out only when it was absolutely essential and other than that we stayed inside.  Even the Lab Dog only goes out briefly to do his business and returns inside.

This evening I decided was a Knit Nite as the temperature outside is frightful.  Remember this is measured in Celsius but the good thing is that it is so cold that Celsius and Fahrenheit are almost equal at this point.

Over the past few days there have been some amazing yarns offered up as part of Boxing Day Sales.  After looking at so many of them I realized that I have a whole plethora of yarn already downstairs in my craft room that I should make into something before I purchase more yarn.

While looking through my fabulous (yes it really is) yarn collection I found this shawl project that I am not exactly sure when I started and or what row I am even on.  Some counting and pattern analysis got me sorted out.  I have started a tracking sheet and anchored it to the pattern.  This project will most definitely need to be blocked but the pattern is sort of starting to show (trust me on this):

Now off to get another warm tea as even with central natural gas furnace the house still feels a little chill I think.❄❅❆⛄😰😰😰

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy