Pumpkin Sunrise

Weekends are for memory making,  relaxing and enjoying quiet moments of our days.   If you would like, please share your weekend moments  in the comment section with a link to your blog. Hello you!  How was your weekend?  I hope it was lovely.  Mine is slowly winding down.  We had family visiting from London, Ontario and we had so much fun, here's some of the highlights: -dinner out Friday night at our favorite restaurant, yum! -talking, laughing, catching up on family, kids, life -a bit of local shopping and finding some deals, even though the Canadian dollar is a little weak -reminiscing of days gone by, seems like yesterday -early mornings in the quiet while everyone slept (that's me up early, love that time of day) -squeezing in some knitting here and there -watching the pretty snow on the ground melt away Tonight, as you probably guess, I'll fire up a cup of tea and knit some more.  The laundry is almost finished. So tell me about your week

Winter arrived this week and this winter lover is quite happy!  I watched the snowfall from the inside of my warm and cozy home.  I went out with the big camera and Frodo, but we both gave up in fifteen minutes because....well...we were cold! Funny how last year was bitterly cold and that 20 degrees would've felt warm.  This year, I'm not acclimated to the deep chill. My body was spoiled with spring like temps for too long.  Barely an inch of snow fell when the storm blew through but that's okay.  It's beautiful and it's snow!  I'm wearing wool sweaters, wool cowls or scarves or shawls.  I sift through mitts and pick a pair - this has been heavenly. The quiet days of January continue, I love that after holiday lull.  We are back to the two of us.  Simple meals are planned, the Christmas cookies are almost (almost!) gone and with each sweet treat disappearing we are welcoming in fresh fruits and vegetable.  Yum.  I am enjoying the quiet and silence th

Last week, I started a sweater for myself.  I loved this cardigan so much I'm knitting another one !  I love Quince and Co yarn and I'm delighted to be knitting with it once again.  Santa was nice enough to give me some during the Christmas season :) Are you surprised I'm not reading Station Eleven ? Well I finished it and over all I liked the book.  The ending was sort of "meh" for me but I still recommend the book.  So in the spirit of reading out of my comfort zone, I started Life as We Knew It .  My son read it over the holidays and recommended it.  Instead of an epidemic wiping out most of the civilization, the moon has been hit by an asteroid and has shifted closer to Earth.  For some reason an epidemic is more believable than the moon shifting but I'm enjoying the chaos and the panic. Who knew I would enjoy apocalypse stuff!! What are you knitting and reading this week? Joining Ginny and Frontier Dreams

Weekends are for memory making,  relaxing and enjoying quiet moments of our days.   If you would like, please share your weekend moments  in the comment section with a link to your blog. This weekend was a dark weekend, sure there were pockets of sun but my the dark skies just kept winning.  I'm lucky that I can hibernate inside and knit away.  How's your weekend been so far?  I bet you have snow if you're not in the northeast (grr).  My weekend was pretty good, we had a slow Saturday morning doing our own thing.  I started gathering papers together for taxes and filed a bunch as well.  Of course I knit!!  What's a day in my life without knitting?  Not a fun day indeed. Today I gathered with friends and knit some more, quite nice.  My laundry is nearly finished and I'm sipping my daily cup of green tea. My weekend contained: chocolate chip muffins -  chocolate chip cookies -  risotto - left over curry - daily walks between the raindro

I am finished with the fair isle hat and it's currently soaking as I type this post.  Ah, finishing knits is quite rewarding and soothing.  I have in mind starting another sweater.  Details will be revealed when I know the details! On Wednesday, my son returned to Boston for another semester and I cleaned like a possessed woman.  Bathrooms, dusting and vacuuming.  A slurry of activity that was overdue and much needed.  Now I'm sitting in a relatively clean home and ready for what January has to bring to me. Everyday has been a salad day.  Yum!  I've been on Pinterest pinning away some new recipes and getting fresh ideas for simple dinners.  My health intentions for the new year are going strong.  I am practicing yoga every morning diligently.  As a knitter, I notice and feel those shoulder stretches and appreciate them. The best aspect of January is the way the light shifts.  The days are a tiny bit longer and my front room displays the sun rays in the aftern

I am nearly finished with Station Eleven and I've been enjoying the novel.  My reading time has been slim since my son has still been around since last Wednesday.  However, he is heading to the train station as I write this and I know I'll finish this book today.  Promise.  I know a few of you out there enjoyed this book, do you have other books similar to this one that you would recommend?  Just wondering. My knitting has been all about hats.  I finished two and posted yesterday .  I quickly started another fair isle hat  using the left over red for the blue as the main color.  I boldly thought that I had plenty of the white and during the afternoon of knitting I came to the realization that I was delusional in that bold thought process. So as any knitter would do, I went to my LYS and bought another skein (the ONLY one left....).  I said it was an emergency yarn purchase.  The knitting group there chuckled and the owner said "it's good the emergency department

There is nothing like a quick portable knitting project tucked in your purse or bag for whenever you have the urge to knit.  I loved how fast these hats knit up in the midst of family visiting and the busyness of the holiday season.  I'll be doing hats next season as well. The fair isle hat was lovely to knit.  I am making another one but went up a needle size since the blue hat is a little snug.  I blocked the daylights out of the blue one and it fits my head perfectly.  If you want to dip your toes into knitting with two colors in one row this is the hat pattern for you. The father cables hat  was fun to knit and looks lovely on a head (or not!!).  The cables are many and keeping track of which row I was on was a challenge.  I tend to not write anything down...for some reason it works for me to look at my knit and look at the chart and proceed. So there you go, two hats.  I've cast on another fair isle with red being the main color and hoping I have enough white