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Sweater before changing waistband and before washing. Photos by Jo deVries This months’ blog post is a follow-up to last November’s Knitting with Natural Fibres. Most autumns, I start planning at least one knitting project. Knitting makes my long winters in Ontario, Canada, pass more pleasurably. It also produces a warm garment that keeps me cozy and happy while knitting it. I usually start by looking through my inventory, to see if anything catches my interest. My yarn collection was severely depleted three years ago when I went on a knitting spree. I tackled all my unfinished projects...

Indoor Gardening  The April/May 2020 issue of Mother Earth News featured an article titled “The Garden of Rebirth.”  In it, author William Rubel had many clever tips on regrowing vegetables from the unused root portion of grocery store veggies. I followed his advice and put some green onion roots, and a few rotten beets that got overlooked in the root cellar, in my garden. A couple of weeks later, I began harvesting green onions and beet top leaves for salads. All free for the picking! I wondered if I would be as successful with trying this idea indoors. So, about a month ago, I plante...

  Newspaper comics and pictures make great gift wrap. As I reflect on the past year, I remember how I felt last year in December. The number 2020 simply sounded like a year of promise and opportunity. I was finishing up writing my second book. I was staying with my son Jordan, in Ottawa, for a couple of months. The sun wasn’t shining enough to power my tiny solar set-up at home to operate my laptop, so I decided to stay with Jordan from mid-December to March. As my stay was coming to an end, I had the first proofs of my book printed. I was excited about what lay ahead.