The Blue Brick | Inspired Yarns

So it was Lintilla by a landslide… but one of the comments (the lovely Rayna from the Crystal Diva blog) recommended a look at this: It’s Trillian by Martina Behm, the same designer who created Lintilla. I was instantly smitten and cast on. And I’d…

Everyone who knows me knows that turquoise, browns and blues are my colours. Every time I walk into a yarn store I am lamentably predictable. But then… then I picked up this lovely thing. This is Iris, one of the new colours from Tanis Fiber…

I still haven’t processed all the photos from our trip to El Salvador… but I did finish the Salvadoran knitting. Introducing Yolanda’s Henslowe: Every time I make one of these I think ‘these shawls go fast!’ and I always forget that bloody picot bind off.…

So I made these lovelies on the weekend :) All supplies from Beadfx. Open lever backed earring closures Silver finish hummingbird charms 3mm round Swarovski crystals in colour ‘denim blue’ Ball point head pins Swarovski Elements Rhinestones – 12 mm Rivoli Cut Pointed Back Foiled…

This hat was designed for my friend Johnathan to be a man-hat that’s actually fun to knit :) Enough cable to be interesting, while still being sufficiently manly for my Scotch-Irish friend who loves Celtic cable-work. This close fitting cabled touque features a celtic cable…

2 weeks ago I flew to Calgary to shoot a sales centre my agency had helped design. It was a great shoot; a challenging space with lots of monitors and lots of glass. The white balances were all over the place, and the monitors, windows…

Heading home in the morning and very reluctant to say goodbye to El Salvador! Expect lots of photography when I’ve had a chance to settle in and process :) Until then though, I leave you with this lovely discovery. This is a Michelada. Our lovely…

Of much knitting. And sleeping. Oh, and I’ve taken up surfing (if riding a wave on your belly counts)

Just a quick note to show you this fabulous place :)

It’s funny how attached you can get to an inanimate object – our ancient beleaguered Corolla died on the weekend and we’re pretty damn sad about it. We got that car with 114,000 clicks or so, and over the next three years we added 200,000…

I’ve been to every province in Canada except Saskatchewan. There is a joke in Manitoba that if you just look west you can practically see it; it’s that flat, but I’ve always wanted to drive through the prairies. I took this photo today while flying…

Thank you to everyone who commented or messaged me during my bout with the flu, I really appreciated the kind words :) Besides, it was a nasty flu – the kind that comes with bonuses, in this case, extreme back pain. On the plus side,…