A little jaunt to the Big city

Coriander loved my most recent ball of yarn…

…which I used to make a pair of “Hitty Sleeping Bags”…

…and a little cardigan.

She wore the cardigan and I wore the socks on a little jaunt.

Coriander and two humans travelled by ferry, bus, train and on foot…

…to Vancouver…

…where we met our absolute favourite knitting designers from Norway! Arne and Carlos posed for a picture with Coriander – she was thrilled! And Carlos recognized that her cardigan was made using their designer yarn!

We enjoyed a delightful presentation sponsored by Urban Yarns on West 10 th avenue and then…

…flew home to Victoria on a shiny red twin otter float plane!

It was a whirlwind trip! How exciting and inspirational to actually meet the friendly and talented Arne and Carlos!

Greening

Scrap Happy Stitched Book Pages (April)

Biscuit Cutter

I have been working on a stitched book project since January.  Working for 15 minutes a day, and for a total of five days per page, I will end up with a 20 page sewn book.  All the fabrics and the sewing threads used in my book are scraps.  I am using cooky cutter silhouettes on each page. On page thirteen, my lovely old biscuit cutter made…

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Small Beautiful things in the April Garden

Splashdown

Viola’s violets

Easter Sunrise

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