Art exhibit: I am torn, I am mended

​i’m in Annapolis Royale, and right across the street is arts place, a gallery for NS artists. Today’s opening exhibit includes handspun knits and print work.

Etch-a-sketch Weather

​I remember having a lot of fun with my etch a sketch as a kid. Making a drawing and then shaking it so that you’d have another blank slate to draw on. There’s something about that physical memory that keeps coming back to me every time I check the weather forecast and it’s still below -25. I shake my phone as if that will somehow change the reality of this never-ending freezing cold winter.

Pom-poms bedazzled world

I feel like a pom-pom is the bedazzle of the fibre world. I had a lot of fun yesterday afternoon making a lot of. Pom-poms and I’ve sewed them on a lot of things.​

Arctic winter games finale

The games wrapped up this afternoon with the street party downtown. It warmed up to a balmy -14°C so I got all my winter gear on and went out to enjoy it briefly.  ​

First Bed Quilt in a Decade!

​in all its glory. 

Protest Hat

​I somehow missed knitting one of the pussy hats during the last Trump administration. Remember those hats? They look like they had little kitten ears on them?

Anyway, being on a news diet, I hear about things in unusual ways. So I heard from my US knitting friends about the latest protest hat it’s modelled on a hat that the Norwegian’s were during the Nazi occupation in the second world war. I went out and bought myself two balls of Norwegian yarn and finished knitting it last night. 

Quilting Retreat

​I’m in a quilting retreat all weekend. It’s a fun way to get projects done and be social.