One last sewing project to share for Yarn Along:
This is a Hussif for my knitting supplies. It’s a little bigger than anticipated, I couldn’t get the computer to shrink the matryoshka pattern and I didn’t want to drive an hour (there and back again) to use a photocopier.
And here’s the inside. Everything you need for knitting, there is also a pocket (for a notepad) on the back side of the scissor flap.
At first glance my shawl is coming along nicely. But if you look closely there is something very, very wrong!! I’ve been decreasing along on the centre section and then last night I counted my stitches to see how many more rows. There are more stitches on one side than the other!!! Yikes! I have no idea what happened. I have a feeling I’m going to have to rip back the entire centre section (and hopefully only that far). Not happy 😦
I’m ready to start a cool new book. It’s called Whiskey and Wickedness and it’s about Renfrew County in the early days.
I got Ella’s fingerless gloves finished and she loves them. So much that they needed washed already.
If any one would like to join me, I’ll be participating in the 4th annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week. It’s lots of fun and she usually comes up with some great topics.
At Home With Us 
Such a pretty purple you used on those fingerless gloves. 🙂
fingerless gloves are a lifesaver this time of year, when it’s still cool out.
Gill
My sister is a museum executive director and archivist in Ontario.It amazes me how many regional histories involve whiskey! LOL. It would seem this area of the world required massive amounts of alcohol to be habitable 150 years ago.
This area was big time lumber, so I guess the liquor helped pass the time. And if you were drunk enough you weren’t scared riding the logs down the Ottawa (insert ‘Log Driver’s Waltz earworm).
It could also have something to do with there being a lot of Scottish settlers!!
Gill in Canada (English, NOT Scottish…LOL)
Actually I think it was a bigger Irish population up here then not Scottish. I know, so far, that it was a big Irish ‘gang’ that seemed to run the area where I live.
Paula, being Scottish and English (not to mention Welsh) 🙂
I love the knitting supply thingy and that book sounds like it will be interesting! 🙂