I Think It's Spring, Ellen!

This week the weather has been behaving like it's Spring, but we are supposed to get more snow tomorrow and Saturday. We had to get Ellen out for a photo shoot yesterday while there was no active weather, so we went to Conception Bay South again, but a different area from last Saturday. CBS is a busy spot. We drove down a few roads that lead to the beach only to find beach access no longer available because of housing construction. Seems that a lot of people want to live near the ocean. It was a beautiful calm day, but still a bit nippy on the fingers. The sun did peek out for a minute while we were there so I managed to get one sunny shot.

Ellen is modelling the colourful scarf that I finally finished last weekend. I loved hand knitting this scarf, but was delighted that it was finally done! Toward the end, I had set my mind on knitting other items so the scarf became like the last mile! Felt like I was knitting a road! Anyway, I am keeping it for myself because I love the feel of it and the way the colours knit up, although I don't have any clothes that match the colours in it! (I guess it would go with black though, hey?) The yarn is aptly named "Cottonspring". It's made by Artyarns and is 80% cotton, 20% wool. Even though it contains wool, it feels cool to touch and you don't want to take it off. When you were a little kid and you get something new, you wear it all the time regardless of whether it matches your clothes or not. Maybe I'll do that!  :-)

Another item Ellen modelled yesterday was a bandeau bra that I knit for Andrea (my middle daughter). Andrea said she wanted mint green and when I went through the yarn stash, the only yarn I had in mint green was a Karabella yarn that consists of 60% dehaired llama and 40% cotton. This yarn is absolutely lovely to touch. I'll have to knit something funky with the rest of it. Oh, by the way, no llamas are harmed in the dehairing process. Apparently the llama is shorn and then the course hairs are removed from the fibre before spinning. Anyway, the bandeau bra is a work in progress. Andrea will have to wear it and make recommendations for the next one.

Conception Bay South has a rich history

Our moment of sunshine

Bandeau Bra

Seagulls enjoying the calm afternoon

Large unusual beach rocks in this area

The boats will soon go back in the water. There was some people activity here at the Marina yesterday.

Let Me Tell You a Story, Ellen!

I was going through the photos on my computer last week with the intention of cleaning them up and I came across a group of photos one day when a frog came to visit in summer 2009. I remember that morning we had torrential downpours, then close to noon the sun came out. John opened the door to go outside and called to me to come see the frog. I thought he was joking but went to the door to humour him and sure enough, there was the frog sitting beside the door step. I ran and grabbed my camera thinking he would surely have run away by the time I got back to him. He didn't run away at all. In fact he stayed long enough for me to get over 20 pictures of him and didn't mind in the least that I was very close to him at times. I sent the pictures to my daughters and Angela named him Gimber. John and I wondered where Gimber came from and where he was going. We live in a pretty busy neighbourhood with the nearest body of water being over 1 km away. We figured he may have been from a neighbour's backyard pond. Who knows? Anyway, I wrote a small book on my computer and had it published by Apple. The story is below. Ellen helped hold the book while I photographed it for you. She's into everything you know!

The colourful partially knitted item at the bottom of this post is a Spring scarf for myself. It's being hand knit with Artyarns Cottonspring (80%cotton, 20% wool). I love how the colours are forming diamondish patterns. I started knitting this before finishing the cashmere vest because last week Cooper (dog friend) came for a sleep over and because he's a fibre nut, he would think that cashmere is to die for and nuzzle it, so I decided to start something else that he would be less interested in. The cashmere vest is still in the works and slowly but surely getting there. Besides this time of year in Newfoundland and Labrador we have to seek colour in things other than the landscape.  I'll show you why in the next post.

Ellen helping!

The End!