Thursday morning I found myself in an area of town I don’t tend to go to much any more, and remembered that there’s a great little yarn shop there. Knit Knackers has been around for ages, but you pretty much need to know it’s there in order to find it. It’s housed in one of the beautiful old brown stones in Centretown, and shares space with an aesthetician. They have yarn, fibre for spinning, wheels, books, tools… all kinds of things, and lots of odd balls to rummage through.
I was just coming out of an appointment with the endodontist, so I was feeling like I needed a little pick-me-up, so in I went, and wouldn’t you know they had my yarn!
Next on the needles will be Tempest, and I’m dying to start. Only 3 more big cable repeats on Cable Down before I finish the second sleeve and can sew in the ends and block. Any bets on how long that will take?
Well! What a year it’s been. I can’t believe that it’s been as long as it has since last I wrote, but there you are. Sometimes life just gets in the way.
So this is a new start. A new start in so many ways! Let’s see…
1) I’ve moved, again. (Can I just note that I don’t recommend divorce? That would be the most major upheaval in the last 3 years, though one I couldn’t blog about. I never wanted to be “that girl” on the web, you know?)
2) My boyfriend (of almost two years) and I bought a house together, and it’s so fantastic!! We have a proper garden, and not much grass. It’s almost all flower beds! We moved in in January, so it was completely under snow. Now that the snow is gone and the flowers are starting to come up, we’re dying to see what we’ve got! There’s a giant (what I think is a ) Maple tree in the front, and Evan has asked for a tire swing. We’ll see when the garden comes up what might be damaged…
3) That boyfriend from #2? He asked me to marry him! (I said yes… 
) Man, it’s been so difficult to blog when the biggest things going on are not blog-able!
4) New blog domain! The old domain, sarah.ostrowalker.com, was my married name. So yeah. Not so much interested in that anymore. Welcome to my new online home! I’ve moved all the content from the old domain over here, so the old post are still around. Proof that it’s still me! lol
The last 9 months have held some serious ups and downs, and the knitting has been at times both a source of comfort, like yesterday while I was waiting for Evan to have some dental surgery under general anesthetic, and a source of utter frustration, like the Bluebell sweater I was working on at the cottage last year, that somehow doesn’t fit even though I was trying it on as I went. (It’s still in time out.) I’ve had things that have needed ripping out once, twice, and permanently, and there are things which have been just hanging around in perpetuity. But now?
Oh do I have the urge to knit!
I also have the urge to climb more, and learn to really mountain bike, and to paddle white water for real. I feel myself coming out of the funk, and am I ever happy for it.
So here’s to new beginnings. We’ll be seeing more of one another from now on…
