p2together: March 2010

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Such beautiful weather

Hi all,

What beautiful weather we are having in Yarmouth! Still waiting for grandchild #1.

To catch up - I finished the Jones Farm, 1878, Sedalia Missouri, Stan's family home. Really proud of it and Stan loves it - that is important! All the wool his hand dyed by Pam MacIsaac-Adams with some little help from me.

The Farm has now a US National Historic Site. We shipped the mat down to Missouri for the celebration.

This is a really nice sweater that I knitted for a client - for one of her good friends. It is from Rowan Classic Collection, #13, Alpaca. It came out perfect - very happy with it and it is so soft. It is in Rowan Baby Alpaca DK, colour Cheviot #207. I love the asymmetric pattern - it repeats on the back and one sleeve is the little motif and the other is the large. The collar really worked well - it has a lovely soft drape that alpaca gives.

It is so nice that it is Spring! Grandchildren coming, lovely weather, my health is good, sun is shining!

I am also working on a beautiful men's sweater from Kaffe Fassette's, Jack's Back. It was originally published in a his "Glorious Knits" for men and reprinted with a whole new set of yarns in "Kaffe Knits Again." I have combined these two patterns and new yarns. My client is a well known photographer so he has given the colours a little boost. Each row has at least 4 colours - two per colour, takes care but is so wonderful.

The wool is all Rowan Scottish Tweed 4 ply is 18 different colours.
Going to enjoy the rest of my day!

Ann

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Been a long time!

It has been a long time since I added anything to this Blog but thought it was about time. A lot of projects, a lot of living, and time passes just too fast.

Here is the progress on my flower mat since I last posted. But I do have all the flowers done once!

Son Clay and fiance Laurie have a great new condo in Toronto are expecting their first child, our first grandchild, any minute! Literally!

Megan and Nathan have a new house in San Francisco and are having our second grandchild in July.

Life is great!

I am making baby things:

About Us

Ann: I live in the rural Atlantic coastal town of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. I've been a knitter since I was 7, now 63 years. My knitting is based on my experience and I get inspiration and ideas from my friends in my local knitting guild. I have a small shop in my home, Tin Pot Textiles. I have my work available for sale and also work on a commission basis and I stock limited amounts of yarn, supplies for knitting and rug hooking including hand died wool for traditional rug hooking.
Megan: I live in urban Austin, Texas in the United States. We have a 2 1/2 year old toddler who is a delight. I finally took up my mother's offer to teach me to knit 12 years ago. I am a member of the online knitting community, participating in email groups and looking to internet-based knitting for inspiration and ideas. But I still love my local yarn stores - there are wonderful shops here in Austin. Son Noah keeps me busy so don't get a lot of time to knit or post but I do pick up the needles on quiet times.

Thanks for visiting Ann and Megan.