Comfort foods of home…

Poutine the French Canadian version of chips and gravy, however, these chips are smothered in gravy and fresh cheese curds….yummy!
Devoured in no time with a large Root Beer.
Why not add more calories, and head over to Tim Horton’s for a “medium double double” and a maple dip doughnut…
****note: I ate [...]

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auto reply: I’m on vacation…

I was able to get my bamboo dpns through the security checks and x-ray detection at the airport.
The flight was quite turbulent. Drinks were swishing around, almost spilling and I had to stop knitting for fear I was going to poke myself in the eye. My actions proved to the Spouse that I [...]

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stashbusters…

Committing oneself to a yarn diet is enough to put an obsessed witty knitter into withdrawal. I keep saying to myself, “I have will power”, over and over again, as I stand next to the new shipment of Noro at TIK.
I call upon my good and practical self, and spend an hour or [...]

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sew…what?

After months of neglect, I am finally lining my knitted shoulder bag. I scrimmaged through my fabric stash and found some gray broadcloth, however, it looked too plain. So I took a fine black permanent marker and scribbled on it…and since I do not have the luxury of a sewing machine, I handstitched the [...]

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Dublin Knit Collective: Show ‘n Tell

Whether you are a novice or an expert knitter…join the Dublin Knit Collective’s First Autumn Show n Tell, it is a spin-off of a knit-a-long…click here

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Is that an autumn breeze in the air?

Thursdays is late night shopping in the City Centre… so I spent a couple hours in town walking along Grafton Street. The summer sale items of July have all been picked over, the Back to School and Fall fashions are front and centre in all the shop windows.
while I was walking home, I [...]

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and the winner of the sock is….

Using the old fashioned method of writing names on slips of paper and placing them in a paper bag, shaking it around, picked one…the winner is:Kristen! Congratulations!
Kristen, please send your mailing address to me at chicwithstix@gmail.com.

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WIP update: the beaded cami

Completion of the beaded cami was a very slow WIP due to the poor showing of sunshine and summer heat on this side of the pond. This weekend is the last Bank Holiday weekend of the summer…and guess what? It is raining again….so this is my weekend to complete the beaded cami…
It is [...]

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one year later…

Oh what a year…
It’s a wonder that I have any free time at all…Blogging, knitting, spinning, felting, dyeing, Stitch n Bitching…anything related to the fibre crafts…
Today, I am celebrating one year of blogging…in honour of this special occasion, I am giving away a Mobile Phone Sock to one lucky winner…all you have to do [...]

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a new kid on the blog…

The world of the knitting blogsphere is an infinite and vast place to explore…and make it so, a blog about knitting in Dublin…Dublin Knit Collective

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