Jane, for gran

I knit a toque, changing up the length and decreasing it properly to make a cap instead of a slouchy knit. A gift for my gran. Not in the mail yet, but soon. I tried it out this weekend (is that even allowed), while back at the Farmhouse.

It was cold. I was warm.

Habitat

I couldn't help myself. I knit Greg another toque. I love the Habitat pattern. I had a skein of grey Lopi and I had exam studying that needed to be put off. And so, I knit.

After the first of my four finals, my friends convinced me that the best place to study over the weekend was at a farmhouse on the Bay of Fundy. I did study, and when the studying was done, I finished the toque. I rushed to finish it, actually, because we planned a study break walk alongside the Bay of Fundy and it was frigid out (and maybe by "rush," I mean that I took a study break to knit).

[Greg wears the toque below]

If You Build It, They Will Come

I had several 3/4 balls of wool and was racking my brain trying to figure out what to do with them, and then it came to me: I need to knit baby-sized things. There are no babies in my life, but I figured, not improbably, that if I knit baby-sized things, someone will eventually have a baby. In honour of one of my sister's favourite childhood books, I knit Saartje's Booties in red red wool.

Sartorialist Archive

(found here: November 29, 2007 and here: Janury 14, 2007)


(found here: January 14, 2007)

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(found here: November 20, 2007)


(found here: November 21, 2006)

Edward Street Apple Butter (2010)

And again, for the third year in a row, I am making apple butter to give to the people I love for Christmas. Apple butter is messy and time-consuming and noisy to make. But, it's spicy and my mum loves it and I can't think of anything better to give or to receive than a handmade gift.

The Sweater That Took Three Years to Knit

(my roommate Aurelie is modelling it here)

This sweater started at Birkeland Brothers back in September of 2007 when I bought 8 skeins of Berroco Peruvia in grey. I had in mind a different sweater to knit, but changed my mind when I came across the Drops Jacket pattern. I started the actual knitting a year later, after I'd left Vancouver for Halifax and was living in a lonely one bedroom apartment. Although I don't like starting one thing before the last is finished, I knit several other things (including a whole different sweater) before casting off and seaming this jacket in August of this year.


By the end, I tore apart and reknit so much of this that I could have knit two other sweaters. But, that's part of the process, and in the process, I'm learning patience.