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the merry blues just another wordpress com weblog the merry blues skip to content home about knitting listening reading watching older posts december 15 2012 9 38 am this is sechelt i m currently enjoying a lazy morning in vancouver hanging out with my dog and catching up on what i should be listening to with the help of winnie cooper last saturday however i woke up in a forest by the water while in sechelt last weekend i made a stop at sew easy i d been to the shop before but had managed to get myself out after only browsing on this trip i did a bit of reconnaissance and returned the next day for some purchases i really like the shop and they have a great selection of vegan options including some stand up acrylics which is something that is often lacking in vancouver the shop owner was very knowledgeable in pointing out vegan yarns and even warned me about a yarn that contained casein something i had never thought to worry about before and which lead me to find this informative post 100 pounds of milk for 3 pounds of fibre yee gads i m off to start my day and i ll leave you with a fitting song by wake owl i managed to sneak in while the band s first album was available as a pay what you can on their website but it will be available on itunes in the new year leave a comment filed under uncategorized december 10 2012 8 18 pm ground control to major pom this is the hat it is knit warmly in a heavy worsted wool and it has a nice bit of slouch to it pattern 131 30 a sweetie designer drops yarn araucania nature solids needle i ll bet it was about a 4 5 ravelry here the hat s great selling point and point of controversy with those who have viewed it is the pom when i first saw the pattern i thought whoa what a pom and indeed it is i have gotten some statements of support and some statements of seriously that pom is a bit much but let s be frank it is still about half the size of the pom on the pattern even though my pom is not the suggested size of huge i admit to experiencing a little bit of pom anxiety with this hat is it too big thankfully lolo asked someone in the know for his opinion and he thought the pom was fine what a relief 4 comments filed under uncategorized december 8 2012 3 17 pm yudanka i am spending the weekend in sechelt on the sunshine coast it is all trees and ocean and goodness my last retreat here was in march and it s nice to be back with less head pain and a greater ability to read i ll post pictures of this trip soon but for now i m going to take the opportunity to blog a hat that i finished ages ago back in february i had a plan to knit everything i needed to stay warm during my trip in japan this ultimately unsuccessful plan meant that i spent much of the train ride from nagano to yudanaka frantically knitting a toque when the train pulled into yudanaka station it was clear that a i would not finish the toque in time and b i really needed a toque the good thing about arriving at yudanka with not enough warm clothing is that it is a town that capitalizes on its proximity to natural hotsprings at shibu onsen i took my inspiration from the local snow monkeys and spent the evening and morning travelling from one scalding hot bath to another each bath had its own unique medicinal properties if i was ever at risk of gout i am now well protected against it yudanaka and shibu onsen were wonderful and it was very enjoyable to spend a quiet day or two there enjoying the winter scenery after the hectic pace of tokyo the hat is now finished and while it wasn t ready for a debut in japan it is set to keep me warm through this winter in canada here it is perched appropriately next to the buddha gracing my sechelt stoop leave a comment filed under uncategorized december 1 2012 1 49 pm hibernation hibernation is the state i have been in apparently not when it comes to knitting but definitely when it comes to this blog i am very behind on posting and updating projects on ravelry which usually means i am way behind on the blog this month i plan to open my eyes shake off the blog silence and return to the online world december is going to be a knitting month which helps christmas tends to be a yearly motivator and while i don t have anything too ambitious planned that may change as the month progresses the weather is the other motivator vancouver after a lovely fall has finally turned into its chilly and rainy winter self november this year was not spent knitting but rather focusing on something else that was good fun while i don t yet have a fully completed novel i do have a 50 096 word start which is good enough for me that is all for now more i hope will follow 2 comments filed under uncategorized april 26 2012 2 13 pm grand socks oh christmas this year i was determined to complete two pairs of socks in a month one for my grandma and one for my grandpa for the pattern i wanted something classic and simple and went for the fair isle socks designed by sarah dallas in rowan s book scottish highland knits on the advice of the wonderful folks at three bags full i went withrowan s felted tweed which ended up looking divine i was at 3 socks on christmas morning and thank goodness my recently concussed brain only had to deal with brief bits of fair isle but all four are done now pattern fair isle socks designer sarah dallas needles 2 5mm yarn rowan felted tweed these socks were great i don t knit socks very often but these were very straightforward and the result was really pleasing leave a comment filed under uncategorized april 8 2012 9 22 am snoozing losing i do this thing where i get very excited about a show at the last minute and assume that it hasn t sold out and of course by the time i m ready to commit it has today the source of my unrequited longing is gotye playing at the vogue tonight if you d like to share my sadness here are some options the first one has been getting a ton of radio time and is absurdly popular but come on the song and the video are brilliant enjoy leave a comment filed under uncategorized april 7 2012 5 54 pm allabrigo sometimes i go through weird colour phases and the other day i realized that right now strangely i have three projects in malabrigo on the go i finished this last project the other day and was a total delight to knit it was made in rios and the colours were fantastic project baby sophisticate designer linden down needles 5 0 mm yarn malabrigo rios sophisticated i think so just like baby kian who i had the pleasure of meeting just this week he is a darling the other two projects are neck related and i ll share them soon leave a comment filed under uncategorized april 3 2012 9 50 pm japan part 2 kyoto is amazing i should have kept track of how many times i said some variation of this is so pretty it was a lot the fashion the history the architecture the food kyoto really stole my heart here s why while in the city i made a stop at avril an also amazing yarn shop unsurprisingly i managed to find a few yarn souvenirs leave a comment filed under uncategorized march 28 2012 3 45 pm japan part 1 in the middle of my february brain stress i took a week off and went to japan it was a trip planned before my concussion and i m so happy that i got to go enjoy the beautiful country and get some much needed rest for some reason when i go on trips i think that i need to have all hand knit accessories to keep me warm and that nothing that i have already made is quite up for the job so as soon as the trip was booked i started knitting about four different things various hats scarves gloves assuming that they would all be done in time despite knitting in the car on the way to the airport on the plane and on various trains only one knitted item was enjoyed during the trip but i m very happy that it was project cerus scarf designer hilary smith callis yarn rowan tapestry highland 179 needle 4 5 mm this scarf is knit in linen stitch which i had never tried before but it creates a great effect i was especially happy for the scarf when i was hiking near yudanaka without a toque oh knitting ambition how you foil me and needed to get creative and why was i hiking in the snow you ask why do see these little ladies and fellows i ve been told that the spring is occupied by ladies i love the scarf and have been wearing it a lot since i got back it is very soft i blame the soy content and not too warm one thing that is funny about it is that it was knit while watching buffy which you can tell by comparing the beginning and end of the scarf mmm hmmm where did the pattern go what can i say it is a very gripping show that s all for now i loved japan and i will blog more about it soon 4 comments filed under uncategorized march 25 2012 10 41 am sharon van etten last night my head and i braved vancouver s biltmore cabaret to see the amazing and talented sharon van etten i think being a musician must be one of the toughest jobs around emotionally physically practically creatively and when you see someone like ms etten perform live you realize that some people must be compelled to share their musical talents despite all odds and you are grateful for it i found this quote awhile ago from robin hilton of npr s all songs considered fame and it is worth sharing though my cold black heart rarely stirs for the work of singer songwriters the voice of sharon van etten always turns me into a weepy vulnerable heap you said it robin here is a track that was one of my favourites of the night some artists are as good or better live and sharon is one of them enjoy leave a comment filed under uncategorized older posts pages about knitting listening reading watching may 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 dec archives december 2012 april 2012 march 2012 february 2012 january 2012 november 2011 june 2011 may 2011 april 2011 march 2011 january 2011 december 2010 november 2010 october 2010 september 2010 may 2010 march 2010 february 2010 january 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