Category: giveaway

  • Giveaway Winner and a knitting update!

    The Random Number generator has picked Timiae as the winner of my On My Way ebook! Congratulations Timiae, I’ve sent you an email :)

    comment-winner

    I was nearly done this sweater back that I started in Vancouver, but it was apparent that I didn’t have enough of this Anzula Haiku to finish the project so I ripped it out. I’m not giving up on the wrap sweater concept though!

    anzula haiku

    I cast off and blocked this new shawl design and I am so in love with it! I used 2 skeins of Alisha Goes Around fingering weight yarn, and I’m starting another in laceweight so you can see how that looks.

    new shawl design!

    I swatched for a new sweater in Tosh Vintage. It’s so squishy, especially after all the very rustic wooly yarns I’ve been knitting lately. Gosh I love knitting sweaters. Too bad I don’t have bionic wrists or something though, because my wrist has been pretty grumpy lately.

    swatchy swatchy

    I’m also jonesing for a nice plain sweater in a cozy brown, so I dug up this interesting yarn that’s been in my stash for ages.

    more swatching

    It’s a very round, multiplied yarn similar to Zara, and I knit up a swatch to 6 sts/in on 3.75mm. I didn’t get this yarn in Japan, but rather from a now-defunct yarn shop in a Chinese mall in Markham!

    Japanese yarn label

    Japanese yarn label

  • map collection winners!

    Thanks for entering my little contest! The random number generator came up with these for winners of the Map Collection:

    381, 156, 113, 256, 324, 26, 394, 180, 36

    The grand prize winner of the Malabrigo Twist is Kate, comment number 11. Here’s her entry:

    “Crocuses are up in the garden around the corner. All but one are creamy butter yellow. The odd guy is almost white.”

    I’ve emailed all the winners. Thanks for playing!

    P.S. Yesterday I went up to visit my parents and use my mum’s sewing machine – whipped up a (very poorly sewn) new laptop case with a Canada Goose on the back. This pleases me greatly!

    laptop case, back

  • random thursday

    sock of randomness

    Despite all the other knitting I’ve got to finish, I cast on for some plain socks. I really needed something I could just knit and not think about! Socks That Rock Lightweight in a “Steph Dyes” colourway – the product of steph in the dye studio.

    editing

    I’ve been doing piles of editing, with my favourite red pen.

    ugly but delicious

    I made blueberry cup-pies (you know, like cupcakes) on Monday for Pi Approximation Day. I decided to make them when I had only 2 hours in which to do it, but I managed to pull it off! They’re quite ugly and my crust sealing could use some work, but they were delicious. I really must get a proper rolling pin, though. (Recipe? I used a standard all-butter crust recipe, and frozen blueberries tossed with a little sugar, cornstarch and lemon juice. Bake at 425F for 15 min, then turn down to 350F until they’re done – about 15-20 minutes.)

    Aaaaaand on this Random Thursday, I have a contest for you all!

    mal twist

    Leave a comment on this post with something that makes you happy – anything! Signs of spring, your favourite yarn, food, book…

    I’ll pick 10 winners at random to win a copy of The Map Collection, and one of those people will win 2 skeins of Malabrigo Twist in Damask Rose – perfect for the smaller Signal Hill Scarf!

    Comments will close on Sunday, March 20 at 11.59 EDT, and I’ll announce the winners next week before my trip to NYC!