Treats for Bloggers and Hodge Podge No. 11

have treats!

For all you bloggers doing the Blogging From A to Z Challenge, I have some virtual goodies to share!

I also have some lovely photos, as part of my latest Hodge Podge post:

Cakes and cookies and brownies, oh my!

I used a friend's brownie recipe, but my sister's brownie recipe is also a good one!

...and now, to decorate!

A Valentine's Day shoe!

Mm, roasted almonds

Hodge Podge post No. 11!

Photos from Paris, November 2019

Love and thank you to critical care workers

An article about our village shop!

Knitting foxes! Foxy Friends by Fiona Alice

Two sweaters knit by my mother...

...and pompoms too!

Finally, here's one of Turner's painting of Thun:

What are some of your favourite paintings?

IWSG Day, Words I've Invented, and Yet More Snow!

elcome to the blog!

It’s Insecure Writer’s Support Group day!

Let’s rock the neurotic writing world!

Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG.   

February 3 question - Blogging is often more than just sharing stories. It’s often the start of special friendships and relationships. Have you made any friends through the blogosphere?

The awesome co-hosts for the February 3 posting of the IWSG are Louise - Fundy Blue , Jennifer Lane, Mary Aalgaard, Patsy Collins at Womagwriter, and Nancy Gideon!

I am so happy to have made friends through the blogosphere! I celebrated many of them throughout the A to Z Blogging Challenge in 2017, one fellow blogger per day! It's awesome to see how many of us have kepy up our blogs for so many years.

I haven't quite met my ROW80 goals. I've been submitting short pieces here and there, hoping for a bite! Overall, though, I've been reading and knitting and baking. And we keep getting snow!

A Linus blanket, upon request, and Clementine Cake by Nigella Lawson!

Snow in the evening, no filter!

The river behind the house is rising...

...so is the cake!

Starting a knitting project I've had for many years! I bought this kit ages ago, possibly in Kingston or Fredericton

Taking a break to bake Roman Honey Cake!

Finished one of the fingerless cuffs!

Two other things I've just thought of:

The Whisky Trench Riders are on Spotify!


Also, I thought it would be fun to show a list of words we've invented in our family:

Fussle: Loving on a pet, especially by ruffling fur with your fingers

Nekechuk: Satisfying stationery, including sticky notes

Çık: The magic that causes stuffed animals and dolss to become sentient

Foss: General contentment

Fish wrinkles: I invented this when I was a teen to be a replacement swear word. I still sometimes use it!

SipSip: Frodo the cat, the inspiration for Kedi

(more blogger friendship love in that post, too!)

Shmuzz: Sam the cat, seen at the bottom of my knitting blog

Have you and your family invented any words?

Year-End Knitting Round-up and Snow!

now!

After I posted about a light dusting of snow, and how we had to go up into the mountains to find snow, we had a realy snowfall down in the valley!

Photos below! But first, the year-end knitting round-up. I've got to collate my writing round-up too, and I usually do that one first, but this one is coming easier at the moment.

The 2019 wrap-up featured baby photos! I also mentioned a pair of leggings I was considering making for a friend. Little did I know that I would soon have a lot more time for that project...

My first completed project was a red superhero scarf (in a post that also paid tribute to Christopher Tolkien).

Then, in what I did not know at the time was to be my final outing for a good long time, I wrote a knitting in the wild post about the Canada and impressionism exhibit we went to in Lausanne.

Then I knit a hackeysack, which has since beenrepurposed as a stress ball, and started baking and knitting in earnest: baby hats! (In a post that also paid tribute to Jean Little.)

I finished the leggings! And started a baby blanket, and kept baking...

More baking! More baby hats! And I made ice cream!

I made a hat to match the baby blanket, and found two of my favourite knitting patterns, including the one from which the knitting blog gets its title!

A lot more baking, and some music!

Finished baby blanket!

More baking! A brand-new baby blanket!

And that was the year. The last item I finished was a hat and the last item I started was a Linus blanket, which I'm still working on:

These chocolate orange bars have turned out to be a constant hit. I've made them three times since!

More bread!

Chocolate pudding!

My first ever pecan pie! (store-bought crust)

Cookies! And blueberry muffins (recipe from my sister-in-law)

Beer from Valais!

A Christmas gift from a friend! Knitter's earrings

The Linus blanket begun

A cartoon about knitting.

How's the mitten coming along?

Not very well, I've only made one.

That's okay, Grandpa, I'll keep my other hand warm by holding yours <3

A new hat!

The Codlin Heid pattern from Ten Years in the Making by Kate Davies Designs

I didn't use quite the right kind of wool called for, so it's a bit hard to see the pattern, and then I didn't have enough of the white, so I finished the hat without the pattern repeats.

The white wool is unbleached, hand-spun wool that I purchased many moons ago in Upper Canada Village (and look! That post features the release of Alex's CassaStorm!)

The hat in the wild and the snow!

Here's the snow!

It begins...

It builds up...

The back garden is covered!

Perfect time to light a fire...

...and have fondue!

What fun projects are you working on?