Laura is leaning against a panel window wearing a warm brown cardigan with the top 3 buttons closed. The bottom had of the cardigan has brioche ribs that travel horizontally.

Side view of Bostock cardigan, Laura is facing away from a window and showing the side gore of the brioche section over a navy blue skirt.

New pattern day! Bostock Cardigan is seamless and top down, with waist shaping and a perpendicular brioche section with gores for flare.
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Husband: ooh whatcha making?
Me: beans
Later, husband: why should we do for dinner?
Me: beans.

Rainy and windy all weekend (and flurries!, bright and clear Monday morning. Classic Toronto.

I am horrifically itchy all over and it is the woooorst! Took another allergy pill out of desperation.

I realized belatedly that when Megan said “remember when you used to do inventory counting by 7s?”, that is when I should have said hey, turns out I’m autistic 🙃

Made a plan to actually go out to a knitting event? What the heck? (I’ll be at Knit City on Sunday!)

I AM SO FRUSTRATED! Got all dressed up, felt cute, took a bunch of of pattern photos (including moving furniture) and they’re all out of focus 😭😭😭😭😭 god damn Nikon!

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I have a dentist appointment this afternoon so obviously I can’t do anything productive until then.

A brown cardigan on a wooden floor, with raglan shaping, long sleeves, and buttons. The bottom half of the sweater body is worked perpendicularly in brioche stitch.

All fixed up! Why is getting up the energy to take photos the hardest part?

CHATGPT DOES NOT HAVE OPINIONS. I am losing my mind over this bullshit.

People use the word “decimate” a lot without realizing it only means getting rid of 10%!

Since I don’t really have enough outside editing work these days, and I don’t see myself getting a job anytime soon, I guess it’s time to work on my website! Perhaps…a return to blogging?!

One of the things I wanted in our house was a wall to photograph stuff in front of, but my office is too small for that! I miss my big office with a door and east-facing window.

I really need to photograph some finished designs but it’s so hard to work up the energy to do it!

A sheet pan lined with parchment, with 6 finished rectangular pastries. Cream cheese is piped in squiggles on top and dusted with peanuts and sugar.

Way expired puff pastry from the freezer, leftover peanut/coconut/sesame/sugar filling, homemade strawberry jam, cream cheese filling. Yum!

I’m so sorry Emily. 💗

Where ya going? I’m pretty much a shut in these days but I’m thinking of and missing you all!

I just cleaned my yarn ball winder, and whew I did not realize it was so dirty!

None of my yarn stash is working for what I want to do! I miss having a local yarn store.

All these new knitters working on their first sweater top down and then realizing they messed up the neck or don’t like it 😒

Parade of female cardinals…or a glitch in the matrix?

Niche annoyance: I answered someone’s knitting question on Reddit, they responded, but now I can’t read the rest of their comment because they deleted the post!

The number of items in a $150 grocery order sure keeps going down. I did buy some meat on sale this time, but that’s pretty far down the priority list!

We started using some toilet paper that was left in the house before we moved in, so 5+ years old. Of course it is much thicker and better than the same brand bought today 😒

A square cake on a white plate being he’d by a window. It’s golden and fluffy with pineapple pieces on top.

I’m in the mood to cook and bake, but we are rich in food and really don’t need it! Made a little upside down cake with leftover pineapple from making pizza.

Dale is wearing my ribbed leg warmers while snow blowing/shovelling and he said it makes a big difference - no more snow in boots or soggy pants!

A jigsaw puzzle on a grey felt background, overlaid with the puzzle box showing that the image is cut off on the actual puzzle.

Dale gave me this locally-designed puzzle for Christmas, but the puzzle is clipped WAY inside the edges of the image. The CN tower is completely cut off! Apparently they didn’t realize until the finished puzzles came in, and still sold them for Xmas 😑 they’re sending a reprinted one in Feb.

Feels pretty useless to publish knitting patterns into the void, but it’s all I know how to do 🙃

Wallpaper Wrap | LoveCrafts Wallpaper Wrap is a Knitting pattern by Laura Chau, available as a Downloadable PDF and includes instructions in English. Discover more patterns by Laura Chau at LoveCrafts!

The Wallpaper Wrap pattern is also available through LoveCrafts. Includes schematic and construction diagrams. www.lovecrafts.com/en-gb/p/wall...