We just came back from Ottawa and I have to say the Porter flight is so convenient. It’s like taking a bus or train but way way faster, you go to the Island Airport, get on the plane, leave, you’re in Ottawa in one hour. It’s amazing.

We had delicious Christmas dinner and lots of presents and much fun.

We went for a nature walk on Christmas day and we almost had a mishap. The lake was frozen, there was so much snow there was no path and we had no snowshoes. For a moment we were walking on the frozen lake and didn’t realize it, we almost broke some of the ice but at the end all was good. We made it home safe and sound.

I apologize for the lack of blog updating, I’ve been busy with work and life and stuff. But I do have some knitting content.

A few weeks ago I bought three skeins of Berroco Ultra Alpaca Light in a beautiful chocolate brown to make a hat for James just like the one I made for my brother last year.

I didn’t want to use the same Lamb’s Pride Bulky as I did with my brother because I thought it may be a bit itchy and I remember it being a bit stiff. So I double stranded the Ultra Alpaca Light. The hat turned out beautiful, but there were a couple of adjustments I had to do to the pattern (the pattern was taken from Knit Simple Magazine 2006 Fall Edition, but I was surprised that some corrections hadn’t been done to the pattern after all this time, the final decreases do not add up to the final number of stitches required and the rim doesn’t match either, you have to reverse the pattern either while kntting the rim or while knitting the body). I gave the hat to James yesterday and he liked it a lot.

Later I went to the Lettuce Knit christmas party, with lots of good friends and good food. The most amazing part is that I won a $250 gift certificate for Lettuce Knit, it was the grand prize in the raffle and I won it! I am so excited.