Year-End Knitting Round-up and Snow!

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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?

Knitting and Baking and NaNo, oh my!

ocooning.

In between the work and the NaNoWriMo prep (come find me, I'm Denizb33 on the site!), I'm still knitting and baking a lot.

A fruit cake that turned into a crumble...

Vanilla icebox cookies dipped in chocolate!

A special birthday cake!

It took three tries, but I've nearly perfected these Sally's Baking Addiction chocolate chip cookies! Next step is to make them smaller, but just as yummy!

First snowfall on the Alps! September 2020

A baby blanket for a colleague!

All about knitting in Yorkshire, from Amanda Owen, the Yorkshire Shepherdess's books

A random flower that appeared in the pot in which the dill failed!

Morning yoga beside Lac Leman, bliss!

I'm thinking of tackling a murder mystery for the first time during NaNoWriMo. Not a suspense, not a romantic suspense, but an actual murder mystery... Nothing to lose, right? If it doesn't work out, I have the elements in place to switch it to a second-chance romance! All I need is the heroine's name...

Will you be taking part in NaNoWriMo?

Lac de Joux and Finished Blanket

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eekend away!

Photos from a weekend jaunt, a couple of weekends ago, to Lac de Joux and the surrounding valley, up in the Jura mountains (home of absinthe, watchmaking, and the largest lake in Switzerland above 1000m):

The Alps, seen from the Jura:

Buffalo and bears at an animal park:

They also had goat and deer!

Lac de Joux, right outside our hotel room!

Snails!

A village in the valley:

And a few more shots of knitting and baking:

This is the finished version of the baby blanket begun here:

And a new hat (which is actually an adult-sized hat, but I had a willing baby model...):

This is a cheesecake blondie, from my sister's recipe:

I found this scribbled recipe when looking for a recipe that didn't call for butter, because we were all out hat day (!). It had no title, so I had to google the ingredients to figure out what it might be:

Apparently, it was muffins!

I haven't been doing well on my ROW80 goals... But I have submitted a story to the Insecure Writer's Support Group anthology contest!

Have you entered a contest recently?