Praire Mama

Joining Ginny

Another blogging mama, Ginny, over at small things has suggested a Yarn Along.  What a charming idea!  Knitting, books, friends, sharing... yes, please! I think I'll join!

I LOVE this book!  It's nominated for the Canada Reads competition this year.  It's a wonderful, wonderful read.  The story revolves around a midwife in rural Nova Scotia during WWI.  It's the first of Ami McKay's books and I sure do hope there will be more. Her writing is so tender, so honest and marvelously subtle.  The characters of this story are painted so carefully that they dance all around me constantly and I can't wait to steal a few moments to find out a little bit more and a little bit more.  This has become my gift of choice for all the mamas in my life.  Gorgeous!

I also LOVE this yarn.  It's Manos del Uruguay and so, so soft!  A dream to work with.  The project, I'm not quite ready to share yet... but soon!  However, I did make this one out of Manos wool and there's a touque coming with the leftovers from Ned's cardi.

Happy Knitting! 

Long time, no see

Whew!  Maybe that's over with? 

We've all had dreadful colds around here for days and days and the days turned into weeks and the virus just seemed to keep circulating amongst us, never giving anyone the chance to actually recover before wham! hitting again.  However, some staying home, eating bowls and bowls of chicken soup and reading books seems to have done the trick - we're on the mend and I'm back again!

So, that done, I thought I'd share with you what I've managed to accomplish in this absence...

I started this vest for Sascha in the spring, thinking it would keep him warm until the weather got summery, but one thing after another and summer was suddenly here with days far to hot for woollens and the knitting got tucked into a basket.  Well, here it is, off the needles and onto that darling little two-year-old belly!  Such a sweet, simple pattern - milo -for a novice knitter like me, just the thing!  Give it a whirl... Next time, I might try the owls option in the pattern - Sascha and I have been enjoying Owl Moon and he's gone mad for the lovely creatures.

Trying to get a photo of him modelling his new vest?  Well, he is two after all! (I must figure out how to rotate these photos in the blog - sorry about that!)

Stay healthy!  Be happy!