Busy, busy, busy.....

The days are flying by, and with just a few days of extreme humidity as the exception, Fall has arrived early and the mornings and nights are quite chilly. Good for sleeping, but makes for a rude awakening!

With the chilly days in mind, a friend asked if this could be made for her tiny little niece, and so I did. And I asked for and hope to receive soon an action shot of the recipient wearing her new poncho. The color is most accurate in this photo, a lovely dark pinkish purple - perfect outdoor wear for a little girl.

I am very pleased with the results as the pattern did not call for a hood, so I had to devise one, and calculate the appropriate size, having never seen the child. Apparently it fit well.

The yarn was new to me, Diamond Tempo Chunky, in colorway 355, a nice acrylic/wool blend, sturdy but not itchy, with good weight and drape, and gently hand washable, a nice feature for working moms.

I enjoyed knitting with this yarn, and have inadvertently ended up picking another 6 skeins of Diamond yarn up at my LYS for my next project (not telling what it is yet since I'm making it up as I go, but I will tell you it involves freeform cabling. Yikes !!!!).

Here - check out that applied i-cord, then picture me frantically doing i-cord in bed at 11:30 at night (I have to get up at 5:30am so be at least a little sympathetic would ya!) while the G-man snores obliviously beside me, so as to have it delivered in time.

I’ve almost finished another pair of OnLine socks, and another baby blanket, ripple crochet in boy-ish stash colors continues to grow too, with rows added daily.

Last week I hung out with the Ottawa Knitters Guild (OKG) at the Museum of Civilization and enjoyed hearing Sally Melville, who has recently moved to Ottawa and now calls this home, speak to the Vogue Knitting Tour group from New York City. I could listen to Sally all day – she really makes me sit up and think when she speaks about “Knitting as a metaphor for life”, which is her favourite subject!

Strangely the Vogue Tour Group did not put on any kind of presentation, either to promote the Knitting tour or Vogue Knitting Magazine in general. We (the many members of the OKG in attendance that evening) thought it very odd and quite disappointing, especially as many members had gone to great lengths to bring and display a large number of garments knitted from Vogue Knitting Magazine patterns over the years. It was generally thought that Vogue had missed a great marketing opportunity with all those Canadian knitters in attendance! We did however have a chance to speak with one of the tour escorts who has a dream job working at Vogue Knitting – lucky gal!

So, now I’m all caught up.

Knit on……..