Sunday, July 6, 2025

Year of Projects - Year 15 begins

 



Well yes, Year 15 has begun, but I have not been Yopping for that long.  I will have to look back though my archives to see when I started....be right back.  

Okay. I started in Year of Projects 2016/2017 and was pretty consistent until part way through 2022/23 - So I think that makes this my 8th year.  

Enough with the facts - let's get down to the plan. 

I have had two patterns in my queue since the beginning of the year and it took me a while to order the yarn for them  

Wilderness Shawl and 52 Card Pickup 

The Wilderness Shawl will be a new-to-me construction of knitting a colourwork shawl in the round and then steeking it.  It doesn't escape my notice that the work steek has the word 'eek' in it.  I started this yesterday and so far so good.  Progress picture will happen next week.

The 52 Pickup is a double knitting pattern by Alasdair Post-Quinn and I will make the blanket version with each card of the deck, including the two jokers.  

I also have another of Amelia Archer's designs -  Contrapunctus ready to start.  I love her knit loop ideas, and in fact took her idea and designed a sock for this year's SuperSock World Championship. Me Too! Me Too! will be available for sale in September.  



This past week I finished two pairs of socks to celebrate Canada Day.  Amelia Archer's Charmed Diamond socks and one of the Supersock World Championship designs - Sassia by L'Atelier des Glรจnettes. 



Yesterday was the start of Tour de Fleece and I have over a pound of fleece to spin up - not sure how much I will get done, or what I will make with it, but it is great to be back on my wheel after such a long hiatus. 


The rest of my plan is as follows:

test knits for Supersock World Championship 2026

new sock design of my own

a gnome or two 

an animal/wild animal friend or two

knit something with my handspun

at least one dragon 

a toque to match my latest purple gansey

fingerless gloves - also to match my latest gansey 


Yes, I am back and looking forward to catching up on the other bloggers who are taking part in Year of Projects 15 on Ravelry. 


Saturday, June 7, 2025

Home and Away

 



Well it finally has happened.  Thanks to being confined to home with the latest CoVid variant I was able to get my latest novel published in paperback form.  This is exciting as I can now give copies to my local libraries and have some on hand to sell myself.  

Readers can order it from Amazon.  

As this, my second novel, hits the presses I am already in final edits of my third novel, Saul's Swimmers. 

Who am I? 

I am a writer.