happy ness

The last four days were spent in the boreal forest of northern Saskatchewan at the Ness Creek Music Festival. It was a lovely weekend full of sun, heat, camping, dirt, stinky outhouses, hippies high on life (and other substances), beautiful stars in the night sky, northern lights, and good friends.

There was swimming in Nesslin Lake and lounging on the beach:

Cuddling and reading with S. in a hammock:

Delicious food provided at the community kitchen:

At Ness Creek, there’s a community kitchen where everyone contributes food and the awesome volunteers make a big communal supper for everyone using the ingredients.

Good music and dancing barefoot in the sand:

And an impromptu stitch & bitch of sorts:

A good weekend. And ahead of me is a week of furious knitting and packing.

More photos here.

lack of finished objects

I suppose a lack of finished objects makes for a very boring knitting blog. There has been lots and lots of garter stitch. I’ve been reading a whole shwack load of knit blogs and spending a lot of time (thus getting very addicted) to Ravelry. I am feeling inspired by all the projects I’ve seen/read about but I won’t let myself start anything new until I finish my current project. There’s a good post on Annie Knits that expresses exactly how I’m feeling.

This weekend I’m going to a big hippie fest and will spend a lot of time in the bush finishing up that darn log cabin blanket. Slog slog slogging along.

My goal is to have it finished Sunday July 29 so that S. can take it with him when he goes to visit our future home in Victoria. (Grumble grumble… he’ll meet my niece before I do!)

Wish me luck. Oh, and if you’re wishing me luck please throw in a little extra for packing up all of my belongings by Sunday July 29 so it can be packed up in a truck and driven to the west coast.

Stress? Just a bit.

yay!

Man, what an awesome day. It’s Friday, I have a new niece, and this afternoon in my inbox, I found my long awaited invite to Ravelry!

I imagine I’ll spend a lot of my weekend photographing my stash and browsing all the beautiful projects on there.

cricket cricket.

Oh, summer.

Sorry so quiet. I went away for the long weekend and I’m still working away at the log cabin, now even more furiously than I was before because my niece was born this morning. Her name is Tomma and she and mom (my sister Joyce) are doing well. I’m so thrilled to be an auntie for the third time! I can’t wait to meet her.

So yes. It has been quiet. Did I mention I learned how to spin? I learned from a friend’s mom who was kind enough to lend me one of her wheels to get the hang of it and see if I have a taste for it. Fibre folks really are the nicest people.

There has been spinning. Uneven, frustrating spinning, but still spinning nonetheless. There has been knitting, just not very exciting knitting. I’m slogging along. It’s hard to update a knitting blog when all you’re knitting is long strips of garter stitch. I’m hoping to finish this blanket this week and send it off in the mail, and after that I have a list of projects to finish/tackle.

A knitting to-do list, of sorts:

• finish ribbed purple scarf (which was started last fall)
• finish up my pair of Monkeys
• finish the felted yoga mat bag from Last Minute Knitted Gifts
• knit toe-up short row heel socks out of Watermelon Tourmaline STR
• fall project: Sunrise Circle Jacket by Kate Gilbert with some orange tweed in my stash

Talk to you soon!