Ever notice how hard it is to make good, healthy food while on a very, very strict budget? Yeah, me too. Both my partner and I have extremely tight wallets, but we love our food ... and even more, we love good, healthy food. So, I've decided to do some research. And it all started with a book. A book by Antoni Porowski - …

I'm rather looking forward to this upcoming weekend. Saturday is game day, and I get to forget the world for a little while. I've played Dungeons and Dragons for more than 30 years now (Himself got me into it when we were dating - a few years before we wed. So in all honesty, probably closer to 35 now), and this campaign is a fun one.

Welp, I learned a painful lesson with my sweater. I didn't do a gauge swatch for my sweater. My gauge was off ... not by much ... but enough that I might have to change needle size. That and I dropped a stitch three inches from the row I was currently on. In the increase. My forehead hurts for the amount of times I "headdesked" over my hubris.

So I've decided to take the plunge and knit myself a sweater. Since it's for me, and not a significant other, I'm safe from the Boyfriend Curse. I chose the Chole Cardigan from the Lions Brand website, and the Medium Purple yarn from Red Heart. And so far I'm really enjoying the process. Won't say much more than I love it. It's my favourite colour, and since this sweater has no buttons, I can use one of my new shawl pins to fasten it closed. The cast on was quite simple, and I took a shortcut by adding the stitch markers as I cast on.

How is it, that it's the end of March already? It feels like just yesterday, it was March 8th. It's a wee bit creepy, to me. In three days (probably two by the time this gets published), it will be my 2nd Stroke-aversary. Two years since I was laid up by a bilateral ischemic stroke. What a nightmare that was. I am so very glad my brain survived as much as it has.

Today, I was lucky enough to go to Fibres West 2025 with two very dear friends. Didn't get many photos - read: I only took one photo, as I was too busy shopping and seeing friends I hadn't seen in a long time. One of my high school friends has a sister who owns her own yarn store up north, and she was there today, along with my friend.

Welp ... as much as I have tried to keep up with my blogging, and I do remind myself a lot about doing this, I've let a long time pass. So, here is a post to let you all know what I've been up to: February was an interesting month. Started new things, and finished a few too. The biggest thing was the start of my new craft area.

This year is a year of giving for us. 2024 was a brutal year with severe health issues, and causing money issues. Food security, as we learned, is a tough thing to live with, and there are so many in our community that deal with it every single day. To that end, all my acrylic yarn will be knitted/crocheted into hats, scarves and ear warmers for the homeless in our city.

It's been a heck of a year, and I'm quite glad 2024 is over. This new year will herald a LOT more fibre arts ... this year, I *will* learn to spin. I have two projects on the go currently, using up my current over-stash of yarn, to make little daily projects, and over all, hats and ear warmers for the homeless.