The Blue Brick | Inspired Yarns

Here’s a place that totally failed to creep me out. 4 of us decided to spend a Saturday afternoon wandering around in some of the abandoned homesteads in the Peterborough area. Did I say 4 of us? I meant 2 of us, while 2 of…

I don’t get creeped out easily – abandoned places fascinate me, and the more decrepit the better. So when we found an abandoned factory in a place called Lyons Falls, upstate New York I was ready to settle down for a good long study. They…

The incredibly talented Leslie has finished spinning up my aurora batt, and what a beauty! I had this idea, that I would knit this into a scarf and wear it to the arctic the day I fulfill my bucket list of shooting the aurora from…

What trip to NYC is complete without a visit (or 2) to the cooler-than-cool Soho neighbourhood? Ok, ostensibly to shop for clothes.. but really to go to Purl Soho. And it didn’t disappoint in the least. Yarn purchased in a different area code is exempt…

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. ― Charles Dickens, Bleak House All photos taken…

I took lots of photos in New York City – but these 2 are my favourites :)

What’s cuter than a couple where one of them is 5 foot 2 and the other is 6 foot 7? Matching hats, that’s what. Johnathan is sporting his Johnathan hat (yes, designed for him :)) and Bev is wearing her new Pasha by Jane Richmond, which…

So we drove to NYC on the weekend (more on that later) and I was looking for a good knitting project to take up the time. Tito had just received his first pair of socks and he was lovin’ em. So, glumly, I went to…

Pattern is the ever-reliable (and now memorized) Sporty Striped Peds from Purl Soho. Shodan doesn’t seem impressed. That’s ok.  

Every Mother’s and Father’s Day I have the honour of celebrating 2 sets of parents – my actual parents and my parents best friends, who predate my existence by quite a bit. They are a fixture of every family event, where after a few drinks…

I took a new toy to the escarpment on the weekend – the Lee Filter Big Stopper. The Big Stopper is a lens filter that drops your exposure by 10 stops, allowing for much longer exposures even in bright sunlight. Long exposures make for some…

I’ve got a new toy :) It’s the Lee Filter Big Stopper, and it deserves it’s own post. We took it out to wine country yesterday to test-drive it – it really shines when used with running water and where better to go than the…