I'll start with this cardigan i have tested for. Named 'Sounds of Life' because it originally features a wool which is processed in a way to preserve its natural and innate qualities, in which you can still find little blades of grass, that you just take out as you knit. For Andrea, as well as for owner, these are simply echos of nature, that make you hear the sounds of Life. Unfortunatly, i didn't have the opportunity to use Cestari yarn which is not easily delivered in France but it was the perfect occasion to try icelandic wool lett-lopi which also offers humbelness and authenticity. // My has a good fitting but the socks tend to slip and are not easy to put on.

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I think i made the foot a bit too short and the heel probably not deep enough. Thus, for this one, i maintained the same circumference by casting 40 stitches on 2 mm needles, but i made the heel over 24 stitches (60% of the whole stitches instead of 50%). I also made the foot longer (9 cm from the corner of the heel to the beginning of the toes). I'm not far from the end so i'll know soon if these decisions were the good ones! // I knitted the hat in december.

It's a exquisite pattern by, easy and quick to knit, perfect if you're a beginner. Since, the hat has been worn and loved and the need of a matching scarf has been mentioned a few times. So, if i could give some attention and time to this project during january, it would be great! I made the hat with Malabrigo Chunky (Azul Profundo) and i chose the same color for the scarf but in Worsted.

I'm going to start from the hat design, and adjust the stitch pattern to knit it flat, and may add some different sections to enjoy the knitting right to the end. // On this little plain sweater in process, i had the wish to add some colors by drawing something. This lead me to look for some tips about intarsia. This technique is used to 'draw' patterns with different colors by using independant balls of yarn on each area of color. It's a kind of woolly puzzle. Each color is joined in the course of needs to become the working yarn for a section of the row, and then just left in order to be available at the right place to follow the pattern on the next row. This technique rather fits well forth and back flat knitting.

Indeed, when we knit a section of color on a right side row, we bring the yarn in one direction, from left to right for example, and then let it where it is when the last stitch with this color is done. On the way back, if we want to find this yarn at the right place to keep on knitting the pattern, we need to come back from the other way, from the right following my example, and then, by purling the color, we bring the yarn in the other direction, from right to left, and let it there, to be available on the next row, in the other way. When we knit circular, at each row, we come back to the color pattern from the same side, always on a right side row, therefore, the color yarn used for the pattern won't be available at the right place from the second row. // On this wrong side pic, we can see that each color stays on the area where it's needed. But we also see the main color carried on the wrong side while working the other colors, since we need it all around the knitting. It's a twisting to intarsia as normally you're supposed to use only one color at the time, juxtaposing colors and not carrying them. But, for my sweater, i didn't want to let my main color on each side of the pattern, using two separated balls for that.

So i took a bit from stranded knitting techniques to carry my yarn. There are different ways to do so. You can simply lay the yarn you're not using on the back of your work (trying to maintain an even tension) et take it back when you need it.

Or you can 'weave' the color you're not using at the same time you're working with the other color, every other stitch. I rather chose this technique because i don't like long floats on the wrong side, and also because, at least in the specific case of my project, it reinforces my fabric where the pattern lays, as my gauge is quite loose. I'm coming to this photo session. It's the first time i'm modeling this way to show something i'm wearing.

I don't like being photographed, i'm speaking all the time to hide my shyness and most of the time, i can't bear the result. But for once, i got into it to tame this shawl and to figure out how i could wear it. Finally, making a a shooting, getting dressed for it, picking the heel shoes and taking off the jeans, having a new look to one's wardrobe to see how the new item can fit in, are a good way to jump over the step between making and wearing. As i already said, it's a very long shawl but its construction follows a clever rythm: each time there is a risk to be tired of very long garter rows, comes a short rows section to subtly lead to what happens next.

On this sections, the number of stitches is decreasing in the course of rows allowing to keep on spreading out the shawl according a stimulating tempo. Short rows should not be feared, they are easy to make and very interesting to play with stripes. In Heidschnucke's pattern, the short rows used are the german short rows, very easy, with no wrap sometimes tricky to keep track of. This kind of shawl is really a good way to practise short rows. And a few words about colors!

I wanted white (Sel / Salt colorway) / shawl's name inspired me something rather bucolic so i kept another naturel ton (Poivre et sel / Pepper and salt colorway) / when i started to knit the shawl, i could see by the window the intense green flax fields which instilled me the third color desire (Printemps / Spring colorway). Most of the times, i choose my colors in a impulsive way and i'm often worrying about that while i'm knitting. I didn't take the time yet to study colors: it's one of my goals! This preoccupation grew slowly, step by step. When i re-started to knit two years ago, i first thought that i wanted only natural animal fibers, which was a big difference compared to what i experimented fivteen years earlier when synthetic fibers were mainly sold by mainstream wool shops' brands in France. Then, i realised that looking for natural fibers, this 100% wool label, was not enough at all and that a yarn could be 'natural' while suffering from a production which is not kind to animals, environnement and humans. It seemed to me impossible, incoherent and not fair to pretend practising a patient and careful craft without knowing more about the material i use.

From now on i'm trying to buy wool that i can know. I'm not necessarily looking for a standard, rather for companies who talk in a very open way about their yarn production's steps. At the beginning, it seemed to me very demanding and a bit frustrating because of all the buying wishes which can follow on from sharings within the knitting communauty on social networks such as Instagram or Ravelry. But i realised that anyway, i just can't knit all the yarns i see, my whole life would not be enough. So patiently picking a few yarn brands fitting my expectations is not so difficult. The list will grow quickly enough considering the time that daily life let me to knit.

On, you will find links to the farm which is the heart of this beautiful adventure, and by clicking on, you will have some informations about their production's steps. I knitted and i'm knitting several projects with different wools De Rerum Natura (pictures up there).

They are soft and smooth, very pleasant to knit with. It makes warm but still light weight garments. Feeling so confident in a wool really enhances my knitting experience.

I know that when i will be done with a project, i will love the finish object even more as i know how beautiful and ethical is the wool. I would love to hear about your yarns choices. Feel free to share in the comments so we can discover some wool you attach importance to.

I really crossed Canada by bicycle, from Vancouver to our home, in N.B.!! If you would have suggested that I would do such a trip two years ago, I would have answered: 'Never in a life time.' Everyone was saying that Charles would make it to the end, since he cycles a lot every summer. But most had doubts about me.

It's true that I also had doubts myself. What helped me was that I told myself that if ever it became too difficult, I could always follow by car; but the farther we got from province to province, I wanted to get to the end.

Mountains: At the beginning of a long travel like this one, it is good to start more slowly and increase the distances with time, to avoid the injuries that could prevent you to finish. So to do the big mountains at the beginning of this journey was a good thing since we were already expected to small distances. But in the mountains I had to stop often to relax and to catch my breath, sometimes I had to stop after only one kilometre of climbs. This was making our days longe, but Charles always encouraged me. He kept saying: 'One kilometre at a time.'

When you start your day knowing that you will be climbing a long time, you prepare yourself mentally and that helps a little. Even if I never like climbing and I often see it bigger than it really is, I am also afraid of going down on a steep hill and don't like the speed, so I end up having sore hands from trying to break a lot. If we were to go back to B.C.

Right now to bike the mountains again, I would probably want to do longer distances in a day and take less breaks, so I wonder if I would make it. Weather: We were lucky with the weather. A little too much even, since we got heat waves in a lot of places that we were.

Fortunately, we are early birds, and were on the road early so we could finish in early afternoon, before it was too hot. The warmer the weather was, it seems that we were pedalling less fast and we also had to stop more often to drink. When there are clouds in the sky, it is cooler and a much more agreeable weather to cycle. If you get rain, but only light rain and not for too long, you don't mind. But when you get more heavy rain it is not so much fun, you are all wet and it is also a bit more dangerous. Mainly it is less interesting to stop on the side of the road to rest, drink or eat. We only had three days of rain in this tour and this helped us a lot, at least morally.

Camping: We didn't do much camping, mainly because of the heat; we wanted to be inside, away from the sun and take advantage of the cooler temperature and air conditioning. After a while, it became a habit and we did not look too much for camping sites, unless it was the only option. One advantage with most motels, was the fridge in the room, mainly if it also had a small freezer. We were each freezing a bottle of water, and with our cooler bags on the back of the bikes we were able to keep our beverages cold for a longer time and that was great in the hot afternoons. Most cyclists don't have that cooler bag, since they don't have a trailer and they use that space behind the bike to carry their tent and sleeping bag. We enjoyed the times we stayed in camping sites, even if I don't sleep as well in a tent. Also almost every time we camped, there was rain either in the evening or night.

When camping you had the advantage to meet other people and other cyclists. And some of our best times, are the days when we cycled with Kevin Ticknor and Farha Hafsaoui. It's even too bad that our road separated and we did not spend more days together. Warm Showers (it's a network for cyclists only - similar to couch-surfing): Since we did not know our strengths, mainly mines, and that a lot of things can affect the rhythm of your day when you cycle, like head wind, rain, lots of climbs and a mechanical problem; it was hard to tell that we would get to a certain place at the end of the day. We were planning for more than one stop depending on how far we would get.

This is why we did not look for places to stop within the Warm Showers network, except where we already knew people because we had hosted them when they cycled in our region. And we looked only if it was on our road, without too big of a detour. And since our habits are to get up early, finish in mid-afternoon and go to bed early, that might not have been to easy for our hosts. Friends and Family: One thing that we really enjoyed was the times that we stopped in houses where we knew someone, either friends or family. All those stops were very special. Everywhere we were very comfortable and felt like home. We had a good bed and good food, but it was mainly sharing our adventures that we enjoyed and have a good time with lots of laughs and time to relax.

Thank you everyone! Can A Thermal Expansion Tank Be Installed Upside Down on this page. Blog: Making an entry in the blog every day, sometime was kind of a burden, mainly when we finished cycling later or when we were at friends or family since it was keeping us away from them. But we really enjoyed writing the blog and this will be a good souvenir.

It was the best way to let our family and friends know where we were and how we spent our days. We knew that a lot of people were following us on the blog, either every day or occasionally and that they were enjoying reading it, so that encouraged us to write it. It was also another thing that helped me cycled to the end since indirectly these people reading the blog, gave me a moral support. Best Times: 1 - finish the big climb from Hope to Manning 2 - get to the summit of big mountains, three times 3 - the days we cycled with Kevin and Farah 4 - arriving at home, in Saint-Louis; a very big feeling that I had accomplished something big Memory: What I remember the most about this journey, the first thing that comes to my mind; is the support I received from Charles. He always encouraged me, but without pushing me too much. He kept saying to take it one step at a time, one km at a time.

He even took a larger load of luggages to help me. He was not able to ride at a constant speed or as fast as he would have liked and could not do as much distance as he would have liked. He stayed behind me and since I often take a break in pedalling (idle), my speed would go down and then I would start pedalling again and would speed up, so he kept having to change speed, break and then try to catch up which would have been quite a change for him, since he is a cyclist who has a very regular paste when he cycles alone. Charles also had a lot of patience when I was getting a bit negative, like when there was head wind and I thought we were not going fast enough and when after the prairies, I complained that there was too many hills and when I wanted to stop because I was a bit tired but the conditions would have been good to go much further without too much effort.

Without Charles' moral support I would certainly not have completed this tour. Thank you Charles! Bad Time: One thing that really affected us, was to find out that a Montreal cyclist, Alain Palardy, died during his bike tour, even if we only knew him a little. He was 54 years old, our age and was also realizing his dream to bike from Vancouver to Montreal, his home. We cycled a little with him and his travel companion, Bruno and even camped with them one night. We often hear of accidents involving cyclists, but this is the first time that we knew at least a little, the person involved; and on top he was our age.

That really made us think. Quite often I was riding in situations that could have been dangerous. Probably the daily prayers from my father helped. Thank you dad! Thank you also to all the drivers who pushed to the left to give us more room or slowed down when there was less place.

Conclusion: Even with my 6318 km of riding, I still don't consider me as a good cyclist. I still have a hard time with climbs and don't like the speed going down and still have difficulty staying inside the shoulder when it is quite narrow. Also I don't stand up to pedal, which could be helpful in the mountains. At he end, I was more tired and my legs were getting tired earlier in the day; so I am glad that I stopped home. Also, the big climbs in P.E.I.

And Newfoundland made me realize that I had taken the right decision. It was also fun to have the car to visit Newfoundland a bit more. Will I do another bike tour? I still don't know. I would need more training and I would prefer safer roads and maybe go for not so long at a time.

In conclusion, this has been a wonderful summer!! We spent good time together, Charles and me. We saw nice scenery and completed something that we are not going to forget for a long time. I never told this to my wife, but my goal was to average no less than 100 km a day. The worse was that on day 3 we would be starting with some big climbs.

I told my wife that we would go 1 km at a time. It would always be our goal. We would stop our day whenever tired, and never look at our average speed. And I also told her that if she at one point would want to quit, we would buy a car. We started out with a break after each kilometre and gradually increased.

By the time we got home, we were only stopping every 25 kilometres. I made sure not to bike too long. It gave her time to relax at the motel in the morning. She would always meet with me in early afternoon at a pre-determined motel. She would also stop on the way if she saw me on the side of the road. Download Flash Player Samsung. I never had to stop to buy anything, because in the morning, I would always leave with enough food and drinks to do me the day.

I was a lot lighter, going faster and with the car, we now had the opportunity to visit the area a lot more. When I reached Cape Spear, me an Marthe were both very happy and proud of what we had accomplished. It was fun last night, to have a night where you did not have to plan for your next day and did not have to think that you had to get up early. We had a good breakfast at a more reasonable time. We then drove to Argentia, at the ferry terminal, where our son Philippe and his friends were arriving to complete their cross-Canada bike tour.

We saw them as they were getting out of the ferry, took some pictures and offered them some nice cold drinks. Then we invited them to have lunch with us in Whitbourne, 46 km away. In the meantime, we visited Placentia and Castle Hill national historic site. It involved a nice one hour walk and we learned some history. Placentia is a very beautiful town and we are glad we stopped there.

Then, at lunch, we met the five cyclists and their friend, Patrick, from St John's, who was also coming to meet them. We shared some nice stories and had lots of laugh. Too bad we had to leave to get back to Argentia for our turn to take the ferry, or we would have talked much longer. Tonight we have a 16 hour ferry ride to North Sydney and should be home at suppertime on Sunday, (tomorrow). We will get to see our other son, Patrick, before he leaves for his next university term in Ottawa. Our friend, Farha, who cycled with us for a few days, will be in North Sydney, waiting to take the evening ferry to complete her cross-Canada tour.

We will be meeting with her to share stories before driving home. We will post once more to each write our reflexions on this beautiful journey. It was nice to share this experience with all of you!