The Blue Brick | Inspired Yarns

So I haven’t blogged in super long time. Into that vacuum has come an incredible amount of blog spam for some reason… those telltale comments in obsequious tones and terrible grammar have been clogging my inbox. So to keep the blog alive and keep the…

Sometimes you just need instant gratification. Like, instant. Calorimetry. Does the trick. Believe it or not, this is also my first knitty pattern. It’s a great stash buster – used a tiny amount of yarn, in this case some TFA Green label in ‘grape’ that…

Because long after Christmas has passed, and you’re into that long, dreary period of no holidays and slushy weather, odds are if you know a disorganized knitter then you still have at least one gift to look forward to. This, at least, is what I…

Tito and I are taking off to Montreal today :) I promised I wouldn’t take my camera or computer (knitting, of course, is still coming. To do otherwise would be madness). To get my shutterbug out of my system I went out an hour before…

This morning I found a snow drift high enough to attempt a vertical snow angel =D Of course, I had to take a bit of a run at it – which means it was less like making a snow angel and more like trying to…

I’m taking another crack at this ‘learning to sew’ thing. I tried to be a good knitter about it. I looked at the pattern, bought enough fabric, looked into the notions, saw things like ‘piping’ and ‘zipper’ and bought those too. Buying a sewing pattern…

We’ve had a hawk take up residence in the Toronto Music Garden. The little birds are not having an easy time of it, they’re not used to having a predator in their midst. Poor little buggers! I can’t deny though, it is a lovely bird.

Recently I purchased a Lee Filter system for my camera. I was dubious as to the worth of an on-camera filter system – after all, Lightroom has a graduated filter built in where I can adjust exposure, white balance etc. However, having taken it for…

I’m on a designing binge lately – though to my shame I confess I have an embarrassing number of WIPs – including (gasp!) Christmas knitting that is long overdue. But really, what’s more exciting than getting an idea in your head and bringing it to…

Just a neat photo this morning :) It’s so cold in Toronto that Lake Ontario looked like it was steaming early this morning, at the horizon line the steam and the clouds were blending into each other. The inner harbour is completely frozen. It’s just…

This photo set is from our 2011 visit to Cathedral Grove, British Columbia. Cathedral grove, or MacMillan Provincial Park contains a 157 hectare stand of very old, very large Douglas-fir trees, including one that was over 300 years old when Christopher Columbus came to North…

Most photographers have heard about HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography. There are lots of great sites that get into the technical nitty-gritty, but in a nutshell HDR photography is a way to even out the light in an image so you get something closer to…