It’s Day 1 of Knitting and Crochet Blog Week, and I considered skipping today’s post: Day One (Monday 11th May): If You Were Yarn. If you were a type or brand of yarn, which would you be? Are you a classic pure wool? Is there extra tension but a bit of bounce in…
Read MoreToday on my Needles
Last week (did the New Year really only start a week ago??) one end-of-one-year/beginning-of-a-new-year posts caught my eye. Knitting Sarah suggested taking a photo of your knitting/spinning each day to share. While I was intrigued, I was also skeptical about my ability to follow through. I was more skeptical about how interesting it would be…
Read MoreThe Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway
I like living in place where the seasons change dramatically throughout the year – from the awaking of spring; the warmth of summer; the colours of fall; and the cold of winter. While the fall has been generally mild for us, we are now firmly ensconced in winter with ice blanketing the beach: The warmth…
Read MoreWhat I Learned from NaBloPoMo
NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Post Month, during which you publish a blog post every day for the month of November. If you look at the calendar on the right, you can see that I’ve managed to do that. (Assuming this post posts on schedule; that always makes me nervous). When I started, I wasn’t…
Read MoreA modern message in a bottle?
I read this article recently: http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/bumpus It’s about a literal message in a bottle that was found on Sable Island earlier this month. What’s amazing about the find is that the bottle was originally released in 1956 as part of a research project to determine tidal currents. The project was much different than research that…
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