tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804561836108070772011-07-28T19:16:59.133-04:00Adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13090685560999243835noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180456183610807077.post-26688266879747301302009-07-10T19:59:00.006-04:002009-07-10T20:19:04.060-04:00

I unexpectedly had the day off today, so I decided to take advantage of the sales that every store seemed to be having. After making this decision, I found out that Fluevog was having it's annual "John Fluevog Thinks You're Awesome Sale" with selected shoes up to 60% off! Can you believe that I have living in Toronto for almost 10 months and I have yet to visit the Fluevog store? Clearly this

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Sorry for the disappearing act. My grandmother was unexpectedly hospitalized a few weeks ago so that took precedent over everything else going on. After being rushed into surgery, she has been recovering nicely and actually got released from the hospital after only a week. Pretty good for a 92 year old lady. I went to stay with her and my uncle for a few days to help look after her. It was so

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I'm glad you all enjoyed the first set of pictures from Halifax. Here are some more.Pete and I both love the ocean so we made a point of spending as much time on it as we could. On our second day in Halifax we went on a nature tour which took us through the harbour and out into the open water. Here's a picture of the pier as the boat pulled away.This is Georges Island in the harbour which will

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Well, we are back from a wonderful vacation in Halifax with very little knitting to show for it but a memory card full of pictures. Warning, the next few posts will be very picture-heavy (click to embiggen).This picture was taken from the Citadel hill on our first night in Halifax. You can see on the left the clock tower which was built by Prince Edward in 1800. You can't tell from this picture

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Life has been pretty hectic these days so I completely forgot that the third Rockin' Sock Club package was due until about two days before it arrived. When I got the delivery notification I thought it was the Angel dvd I had ordered online so I had a very pleasant surprise in the post office. When I actually opened the package (on the sidewalk while waiting for the light to change), I had another

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Last Thursday I was lucky enough to spend the day with two of my favourite women, my mom and my aunt Judith. Aren't they beautiful :)Judith lives in Seattle so I only get to see her once a year for Granny's birthday party in May. This year she and mom made the trek into Toronto to spend the day shopping with me. The goal was to find mom a Mother of the Bride dress and I'm happy to announce that

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And I'm back. Sorry for the unexpected hiatus. Sometimes life gets so busy that I can't even think about taking pictures, let along blogging. Here's hoping there is more blogging in my future.Speaking of the future, who knows what they are doing exactly one year from today? I do! I'm going to be getting married! In honour of my pre-iversary, I am going to show some of the wedding knitting I have

Adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13090685560999243835noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180456183610807077.post-43480964687397543472009-04-13T20:06:00.004-04:002009-04-13T20:25:53.187-04:00

I had a very relaxing Easter weekend. I did some training for the CN Tower climb, hung out with my adorable 5 year old cousin, and did lots of knitting while watching tv. It was bliss. And I successfully knit three cowls!I am very lucky to have many great coworkers. On Thursday I was suddenly hit by a desire to knit for three of them. These fine ladies have all at one time or another helped me

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I can't believe I forgot to blog about this! A few weeks ago I got the March Rockin' Sock Club shipment. I was wondering who the pattern designer this month would be and, as soon as I saw those 1970s greens and browns, I knew it was the Yarn Harlot. I like the use of pink though, I think it gives it a nice softness and takes away from the 70s influence.Look at that cute little baby skein!Check

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This is the CN Tower. It was the tallest free-standing structure in the world from 1975 until 2007 when it was surpassed by the Burj Dubai. It has 1,776 steps inside and I will be climbing every one of them on April 16th in support of the World Wildlife Fund. In order to raise money for WWF I am doing my first ever blog contest! Everyone who sponsors me for this climb will be entered for a chance

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I was the very lucky recipient of an unexpected package from poor internet-less Phoe recently. She sent me one of those box bags which are perfect for knitting socks, some KP dyeable yarn (this might find its way back to you albeit in a different form, Phoe), yummy looking chocolate (I haven't eaten it yet, can you believe it?), earrings made by Phoe, and Noro Kureyon sock yarn!! Look at the

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I think I used up my good knitting karma with the Queen of Beads Socks. Since then every project I've started as turn out to be a disaster in some way or another.Four projects, four disasters.The red thing is the gorgeous pink cashmere that Bertha sent me. I tried to make Wisp first but it didn't work and clearly neither does Montego Bay. I think it's the drape of the yarn that's messing me up

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On Saturday March 28, from 8:30-9:30pm please turn out your lights and join hopefully 1 billion people worldwide in fighting climate change. For more information and to sign up, please visit earthhour.org. I’m going to be helping out at a VIP event but since I’m just doing registration I’m hoping to sneak in a stockinette sock and do a little knitting in the dark. What will you be doing for Earth

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About a month ago I blogged about my wonderful package from the Rockin' Socks Club. With the arrival of this package, I become a completely monogamous knitter. I only wanted to work on these gorgeous socks. I finished them a few weeks ago but it took a while to get good pictures. This colour is so hard to capture. It's a little too greeny here.I think the next ones are the best for showing off

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I've decided to do a double posting today, just because :)(Scroll down to see cute baby bibs)As anyone who has spent any time around cats will know, they have a mind of their own and what they like to do one day isn't what they like the next. When we moved we downsized a lot of furniture that had mostly been serving as cat beds. Poor Cleo was forced to find new places to sleep. This means that

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I don't know if it's the promise of spring around the corner or just a desire to try something new but I've been doing a lot of sewing lately (and have plans to do a lot more!).I knew I wanted some little instant gratification-type projects but I wasn't sure what to do. It was Heather to the rescue (as always). She suggested the adorable bibs from Bend-the-Rules Sewing and accompanied me fabric

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In December I received a wonderful package from Tam. She sent me all sorts of chocolately goodies and a beautiful skein of sock yarn. I loved the yarn so much that I immediately wound it into a ball intending to cast on over the Christmas holidays. Christmas knitting being what it is, I didn't finish until January at which point I was tired of socks again and onto other projects. Then my first

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When we moved into the new apartment last October, the futon was placed in the living room. In the past it had lived in Pete's studio and was mainly used by Cleo and I to keep Pete company when he was composing. With it now repurposed for use by our frequent visitors, I determined that it needed big fluffy pillows. We found the perfect pillows at Ikea but they didn't come with pillowcases. I

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I meant to post this on Wednesday but work has been busy lately. I was asked to be the admin support for an operational planning team at work. It's been very time consuming but I've been learning a lot. Given the fact that I'm actually supposed to be the coordinator for Major Gifts Operations, it's good that I'm finally figuring out what operations is :)But enough about work, you're here to see

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I have a spectacular headache today so this post will be mostly pictures.I've been promising photographic proof of my finished Clapotis for a while and here it is:Pattern: Kate Gilbert's brilliant Clapotis Yarn: 4 skeins of Malabrigo Merino Worsted in Amoroso (thanks to Bertha for giving me the first two skeins)Needles: 5.5mm Mods: I think I followed the pattern pretty closely. I used my adorable

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I raced home from work yesterday to get a picture of my sock in daylight before the sun set. And I made it too, except that the light was terrible because it was raining (something that I maybe should have clued in to when I was walking home).Regardless, I was able to get one decent of the sock in progress. It's grown a little since this picture was taken. I did the gusset increases and will be

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That was an unexpected hiatus. First there was no light for pictures and once I had pictures my work-life exploded and I've been struggling to get it under control. I have pictures of my finish Clapotis to show off (I'm wearing it right now and it's delicious!) but I decided to blog about something even more exciting (more exciting than a Malabrigo Clapotis? How is that possible?!?).Way back in

Adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13090685560999243835noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3180456183610807077.post-6725942125285173702009-01-27T14:07:00.002-05:002009-01-27T14:22:40.538-05:00

Unfortunately the photoshoot of my Clapotis didn't happen this weekend, however, I'm going home this weekend so I should have many opportunities to get some gorgeous shots. Until then, I'll tide you over with some FO pictures.One of the best things to come out of my most recent schooling (besides my fabulous job) is my friend Kristy. We bonded instantly as soon as we met, sharing a background in

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Time for the second installment of Random Friday!For a while now I've wanted a little scale to weigh my yarn. I figured that there were lots of reasons why I needed a scale, such as to make sure I'm using the same amount of yarn per sock. There's probably more reasons but I can't think of them right now :)Shortly before Christmas, Heather, ever the enabler, pointed out this little beauty on Lee

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There will be no WIP Wednesday today. I've been working exclusively on my Malabrigo Clapotis and it doesn't look all that different from last week. Actually, it does look somewhat different as it has doubled in size but since I'm halfway through the decreases right now I'm hoping for a FO post some time this weekend. In lieu of a WIP to show you, I thought I'd talk about a few small projects I

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Last week I told you about my new camera and shared some of the cool pictures we've been taking. Today, I'm going to show off some of the interesting features that we've been playing with.This picture was taken in front of a bright window using a spot focus. Without the spot focus, I'd have been really dark in contrast to the window. This is such a cool technique that will definitely come in

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I've decided to start a new weekly tradition, along the lines of WIP Wednesdays. I'm calling it Random Fridays (sadly, there can be no alliteration since no day of the week starts with "r" unless I call it Random (f)Ridays, but that might just confuse people). Anyway, the point of these posts is to get me posting more often by giving me an opportunity to blog about whatever I feel like.Today I

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It's almost 9pm but it's still technically Wendesday so I am following through on my promise from my last post :)I usually find myself in a bit of a knitting lull after Christmas. There has been such a rush to get everything done in time and often there is something that doesn't get finished until afterwards that takes top priority. Once the major gift knitting for the year is done, I like to

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Pete and I have been thinking about getting a new camera for a while now. We knew that we wanted to have one for our trip to Halifax this summer and we thought it would make sense to buy it ahead of time so we could practice using it. Because of all the great deals just prior to Christmas, we decided it was time to take the plunge.  Of course, it wasn't as easy as that to decide on a camera.

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Welcome to my new blog! For the past two years I have enjoyed sharing a joint blog with my friend Heather. We decided to try blogging on our own and here I am! I don't have all my pictures together but I was so excited to put up my first post that I couldn't wait.Like many of my fellow knitters, Christmas is a time of much fun and much stress. This year I decided to reduce my stress by only

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