Life LackaDaisiCal

The Life LDC Kaffe Klatch has been busy! Clue 4 Turquoise! While Ann started late..... She is keeping up by always doing the new "Clue" and going back to catch up on previous ones! Ann tells me that her two daughters are already claiming the Kaffe Afghan.... looks like she might have to make another one! I am LOVING the Red colour way! Looks like I need to do a "Whole Lotta Blockin'" ha ha ha Darlene (Pastel) is enjoying.. just a quiet evening at home - knitting!  I am loving this Pastel colour way! Ros' Brown colour way is beautiful! This would have been my "other" choice ..... Ros tells me she isn't quite sure about this colour way :) I think these "Brown" squares are quite original  in colour combinations - don't you?    With Clue 5 being released on Wednesday....we will have reached the half way point for this KAL! It is NEVER too late to start!   Want to "Katch Up" on ...

OK....settle down knitters....this is a long knit-along and you don't want to burn yourselves out! There are a few things that you have to know - here is a check list for you! Are you a Row@n Member - if not, join here . You MUST be a Row@n Member to be able to download the weekly clues! Got your yarn?  If not....here is the shopping list for the 4 different colour ways! The Week 1 Clue is UP!   BEFORE YOU CAST ON!!! Please read the Tip Sheet !  Rowan has provided TWO versions of each square - a M1 increase or an Increase version.  What is the difference you might ask?  Read the Tip Sheet and decide which version you prefer! Rowan has done videos for all of the techniques that you need to be able to knit these squares! There is a Kaffe KAL Playlist which shows them all! It helps if you watch these videos on a bigger screen - they are ok on my iPad, but great on my Mac screen! (It is worth going to your computer to watch them!) I would ...

This past weekend was the 2nd Annual Fall Docknits Retreat Everything about this weekend is fabulous!  A wonderful knitting shop in a unique lakeside community, with a terrific staff who teach classes and hold workshops on all sorts of fibre topics...then add an enthusiastic group of knitters! When I was asked if I could do a workshop for the 2014 Retreat, how could I resist? My family traditionally vacationed each fall in the Port Elgin/Southampton area because my Dad loved to fish there in the Saugeen River....so while I hadn't been here in years....it had a nigh nostalgia rating with me! The subject of the workshop was "Colour Play in Stranded Knitting". We were going to take inspiration from art work from the Southampton Art Gallery, or a photograph brought to class by the knitter, pick shades, and using the Kaffe Fassett "Magic Ball" method, play with colour while knitting a motif that I had designed especially for this weekend. Yarn Dominance in ...

I was NOT going to go to the Fair this year...but a "are you going?" "we are on our way" e-mail, combined with a dull and overcast day prompted me to hop in the car and head West on the 401! Spontaneous means you just never know what will happen...you haven't done any research...you didn't plan...you just go. My only thought was...NO MORE YARN! Honestly, my allocated yarn storage area is full and I really need to clear out.  It is ALL lovely yarn, but I have to be realistic...more about this later After parking, texting my friends to say "I have arrived...where are you?", we met up and immediately went for a coffee.  They had already toured one of the two large show halls and were ready for refreshments. I had to contain myself for a bit :).   (Last year all vendors were in one hall and there was a bit of trouble with the size of the hall, the number of enthusiastic knitters, and a Fire Marshall that just didn't understand that knitters w...