Sadie And The Gentleman's Sock

Pattern: Gentleman's Fancy Socks

Source: Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush

Yarn: Regia 4 ply Solid

Color: 00044

Needles: Circular - 2.25 mm

The Easter Table and Tulips

We have a set of beautiful antique napkins that were a gift from our French Family. Here they are on the Easter table.
Now, you know the routine. For the first few years, I take them out of their white tissue paper, admire each one individually, and lay them on the set table. Then, just before the meal is served, I replace them with very nice, prettily colored, common cotton serviettes! I can't bear the thought of gravy or red wine stains on these beautiful linens. Eventually, I will actually use them as they were meant to be used but... not yet.
Can you blame me??

April is an eventful month with Lucy's birthday and Sophie's, Great Aunt Amy's birthday and mine, and a couple of anniversaries. All good reasons for filling the house with tulips.

For the Tale of The Three Birthday Cakes see http://movitabeaucraft.wordpress.com/

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.  - Hal Borland

 

Sights and Sounds In Our Woodland Garden

A Few of My Favorite Things

A Special Day

A Little Hand Knit

Pattern: Sweet Details Cardigan

Designer: Judy Marples (spinnyknitter)

Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash

Color: 859

Needles: Circular 4.5 mm and 5.0 mm

My Constant Companion

 

The First Robin of Spring

Sunday With Sadie

Meet Sadie

After taking only one class in needle felting, Movita Beaucraft has been producing the most adorable sheep. She has a real talent for this type of needle work and I am hoping there are flocks in my future. One of my fantasies over the years has been a property with large windows, lots of light, tons of gardening, and a meadow for a couple of sheep. I have the gardening and pretty good light. Sadie and her friends could be some consolation for the rest in old age!

Good News Sunday

Many of the shells in the glass jar beside Sadie are from France. And this morning we received the wonderful news that half the French branch of the family will be travelling here this summer. Now, obviously, having the whole family would be even more exquisite but life is often, by necessity, full of compromises and we must learn to grab our joy where we can find it.

Sadie Shows  A Pair of Socks

Pattern: Parade

Designer: Judy Kaethler

Yarn: The Loopy Ewe Solid Series

Needles: Circular, 2.25 mm

Parade is a new pattern I purchased on Ravelry last week, shortly after it was posted on the website. I really enjoyed working with it. Like Cookie A's BFF socks, I think it will be one of those classic patterns that you turn to again and again over the years.

And this is also the first time I have used The Loopy Ewe yarn. I like the colors in the series but the yarn was just a little bit splitty and I didn't get as good a stitch definition as with a similar yarn - say, Cascade Heritage Sock yarn, which I would prefer to this one.

Happy Birthday Lucy Darling

Happy Birthday to the Best Four Year Old Girl in the whole world!

We hope you have lots of chocolate, lots of ice cream, lots of stories, lots of songs, lots of dances, lots of kisses, lots of games, and lots of fun.

Always know that your Grandparents Beaucoup in Canada love you very much and we are hugging you in our thoughts.

And when you come to visit, the bears are going to have a party for you!

Saturday Meanderings

We went to the new Seaport Market on the waterfront in Halifax this afternoon and wandered around for a while. I much prefer the ambience of the original Farmer's Market, which is still operating on a reduced scale in the old Brewery building. The Seaport Market is open and airy with plate glass windows on two levels that look directly out onto the waters of Halifax Harbour and Georges and McNabs Islands. And while the water view is striking, I prefer the atmosphere of the old Brewery with its old architecture, low lighting, and a seemingly endless labyrinth of passageways that lead to area after area of vendors from all over the province.

However, today, I found a pretty pair of hand made earrings at a jewellery table operated by a very nice young couple. Their business is called Tribal Designs Organic Jewellery and I thought they had the prettiest pieces of all the jewellery vendors there today.