Comfort foods of home...

Poutine the French Canadian version of chips and gravy, however, these chips are smothered in gravy and fresh cheese curds….yummy!

Devoured in no time with a large Root Beer.


Why not add more calories, and head over to Tim Horton's for a "medium double double" and a maple dip doughnut...

****note: I ate these "treats" on different days!

auto reply: I’m on vacation…

I was able to get my bamboo dpns through the security checks and x-ray detection at the airport.

The flight was quite turbulent. Drinks were swishing around, almost spilling and I had to stop knitting for fear I was going to poke myself in the eye. My actions proved to the Spouse that I am not an obsessive knitter since I was not willing to risk an injury to myself and those around me.

**note: I forgot my USB cable to upload my photos. to be uploaded at a later date**

***P.S. I also extended the "early bird" registration for the Dublin Knit Collective: Autumn Show 'n Tell Event by a couple of days due to my limited internet access while I am away.

stashbusters...

Committing oneself to a yarn diet is enough to put an obsessed witty knitter into withdrawal. I keep saying to myself, "I have will power", over and over again, as I stand next to the new shipment of Noro at TIK.

I call upon my good and practical self, and spend an hour or two searching through my yarn stash. Ahh haaa....I come across an unidentifiable yarn...I picked it up at a garage sale several years ago, no ball band, looks and feels like fancy acrylic.

I picked up a set of 5mm Addi's, and started knitting a hat...
hmmmm not bad...knits up as a chunky, dense, and fuzzy hat. I actually like the colours, it reminds me of a watercolour pallette.

Oh yeah...I'm a stashbuster!

sew...what?

After months of neglect, I am finally lining my knitted shoulder bag. I scrimmaged through my fabric stash and found some gray broadcloth, however, it looked too plain. So I took a fine black permanent marker and scribbled on it…and since I do not have the luxury of a sewing machine, I handstitched the seams…not very straight, eh?

Then oversewn the lining into the bag…too puckered!
I know of a woman who sews in the lining of her daughter’s felted bags…hey, Ger and Mary, do you think your mom will adopt me?

Dublin Knit Collective: Show 'n Tell

Whether you are a novice or an expert knitter…join the Dublin Knit Collective’s First Autumn Show n Tell, it is a spin-off of a knit-a-long...click here

Is that an autumn breeze in the air?

Thursdays is late night shopping in the City Centre... so I spent a couple hours in town walking along Grafton Street. The summer sale items of July have all been picked over, the Back to School and Fall fashions are front and centre in all the shop windows.

while I was walking home, I noticed the chill in the air this evening...it feels like a September evening.

It won't be too long before I start wearing my latest FO...my mohair/boucle shawl

and the winner of the sock is....

Using the old fashioned method of writing names on slips of paper and placing them in a paper bag, shaking it around, picked one...the winner is:
Kristen! Congratulations!

Kristen, please send your mailing address to me at chicwithstix@gmail.com.

WIP update: the beaded cami

Completion of the beaded cami was a very slow WIP due to the poor showing of sunshine and summer heat on this side of the pond. This weekend is the last Bank Holiday weekend of the summer...and guess what? It is raining again....so this is my weekend to complete the beaded cami...

It is very close to completion....it's been blocked

The cami's designer, Nora is a very creative and talented fibre enthusiast. When I started this WIP, I had some initial problems with understanding the pattern, so I emailed her and she helped me tremendously. She was so kind to send me some beads to embellish my cami...

I'm having slight difficulties handling and fiddling around with the beads...maybe it's the arthritis starting to set in my joints or just the excitement of finishing this WIP...

It is almost done...

one year later...

Oh what a year...

It's a wonder that I have any free time at all...Blogging, knitting, spinning, felting, dyeing, Stitch n Bitching...anything related to the fibre crafts...

Today, I am celebrating one year of blogging...in honour of this special occasion, I am giving away a Mobile Phone Sock to one lucky winner...all you have to do is leave me a comment on today's post. I will randomly pick one winner on the Bank Holiday Monday (that will be on August 6th...)

Also watch this space for more knitting news...

a new kid on the blog...

The world of the knitting blogsphere is an infinite and vast place to explore...and make it so, a blog about knitting in Dublin…Dublin Knit Collective