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Spring always leaves me restless for new, fresh recipes and so I've been drooling over the pages of this book for the last few days. whenever I'm in a dinner rut the photos in this cookbook are a guarantee of inspiration. It's broken up by season which I think is brilliant!

some colour for a spring yarn along

I'm working on finishing up another shawl that I started last spring. I had hoped to have it finished in time to wear on my little getaway this past weekend but that just didn't happen so I brought it along to work on in our downtime. the pattern is a little monotonous but the yarn is the most stunning shades of deep teal and bright aqua that it's spurring me on to get it finished.

During my little break from knitting a few weeks back I finished up Pride & Prejudice and read Mansfield Park for the first time. I went into blindly, knowing nothing about the plot or characters and I really enjoyed it! I couldn't put it down. It may be one of my favourite books I've read and to be perfectly honest I'm not much of a reader so it takes a lot for me to say that.

Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll have some more knitting to share as I've got a bunch of projects in the wings.

ETA: for those of you wondering the yarn is by Sweet Fiber Yarns and is even more stunning in person and the pattern is lacy baktus

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some cozy felted slippers and the lovely EZ for this weeks yarn along

I'm a procrastinator so in that spirit I started some birthday slippers for my dad yesterday in hopes of having them off the needles and felted for friday. No problem right? Thank goodness it's my LYS sit and stitch tonight! This will be the perfect mindless knit to bring along. I've been sort of sporadically knitting on a few different projects this week finishing nothing but making progress. I'm also still reading Pride & Prejudice slowly but surely and browsing through Elizabeth Zimmermann's The Opinionated Knitter. We found out that my son got a spot in the school we wanted and so I feel a Tomten sweater is in order. What better way to start out school that in a cozy garter stitch hoodie.

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a pair of cozy mittens and a magazine I'd forgotten I'd picked up on our weekend away
~ joining in for this weeks yarn along

Hello Wednesday. It's been a little grey here lately, in weather and knitting and spirit. Still recovering from the flu and although I've miraculously escaped any sickness, I can't say the same for the other members in my family. Go away flu!

We actually had a surprising little snowfall on monday and while it was beautiful to watch and actually perked me up a bit, it's always so grey after. Magazines are always cheerful and inspiring and so I've been scouring the pages and dreaming of spring. We did some beautiful sunshine over the weekend. I mean clear blue sky, sun in your eyes kind of weather. I'm holding my breath for more of that.

Until then I'm in hibernation mode. Enjoying cozy socks and lots of tea, scrabble with the husband, knitting on more projects than I can keep up with and lots of snuggles with my kiddos.

swatching for my first sweater ~ Coraline

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I was suppose to be at sit and stitch at my LYS this evening but my husband is recovering (and I say that loosely because he's had it for over a week and hasn't started to feel even a little better yet) from pneumonia and now both my kids have run fevers in the last couple days. Add a crashing headache on my part and leaving the house just isn't happening. This extended hibernation has been good for my knitting habit though. I've finished a project and started another and even perused a stitch dictionary for some design ideas. I can't complain.

I stumbed upon this neat idea for a yarn along today and so I thought I'd join in the fun and share a photo of what's currently on the needles and what I'm reading.

a cozy red scarf for my sweet, sweet boy ~ Vogue Knitting Stitchionary, volume one
~ Pride & Prejudice on my kobo app