St. Nicholas

Last Saturday, the 1st Saturday of each December, we celebrated St. Nicholas’ day with our annual St. Nicholas Festival.  The festival started a few years back, to help educate others about the real Saint, and to help bring the spirit of the season into perspective. Each year our little festival grows, but more importantly, with [...]

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A Wonderful Gift

A couple of years ago my dh commissioned an iconographer to write an icon of St. Melangell for my birthday. Due to circumstances beyond her control it took longer to complete than anticipated, but time was really not an issue for me, and as I understand after talking with others who had icons written by [...]

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Weekend Knitting Retreat

This weekend I was truly blessed to spend a couple of days at our second annual knitting retreat, held at Saints Mary and Martha Orthodox Monastery. While initially designated a “knitting” retreat, spinning, weaving, crochet and other fibre activities emerge as well. The nuns of Saints Mary and Martha are wonderful hosts, not to mention, [...]

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Knitting in Tandem

Our new furbaby, Onida, had made several contributions to my “headcovering” project that resulted in loosing approximately 10 rows…twice. There is nothing I enjoy more than trying to put lacework back on the needles after having to rip rows out. Finally the third time I caught her working on it I just couldn’t find the [...]

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a Card Idea

Recently one of the nuns celebrated her 50th year as a monastic. I had hoped to make her a special card for the occasion, Onida, on the other hand, had other plans. She thought she would offer some help in the creative process resulting in the loss of approximately 12 rows. I keep telling her [...]

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Tha Criosd air èiridh!

With Lent, Holy Week, Palm Sunday and Pascha (Orthodox Easter) celebrations, a time for quiet, prayer, repentance, fasting and finally rejoicing….Tha Criosd air èiridh! (Christ has risen) now just passed for us, though we will continue to celebrate fully for another 40 days, I thought I would share a few pictures ….. gu dearbh, tha [...]

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Monastic Fibre Adventures

Several weeks ago I was blessed with what has become a wonderful tradition, my annual visit to Saints Mary and Martha Monastery, to spend a few days with my Godmother, the Abbess, Mother Thecla. On these visits I pack the essentials for spending a few days in contemplation and prayer, which includes reading material, usually [...]

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Life goes on….

Recently I received the honour of becoming Godmother to one of the sweetest little boys. Though this is not fibre related it has to be one of the few events in my life that is easily more exciting that has nothing to do with fibre. We fibre enthusiasts can appreciate the magnitude of a statement [...]

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Weaving the Purple yarn

As an Orthodox Christian and fibre artist, you can imagine my excitement when I first noticed, in this particular icon, that the Virgin Mary was holding what looked like a spindle in her right hand when the Angel Gabriel approached her “announcing” that she would soon become the Theotokos, “God bearer“. The story that the [...]

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One down, Three to go

I was finally able to finish the Navy Watch Cap that my DH requested before Nativity. I had to schedule a visit with my Godmother at the Monastery to find time to work on it. Being winter there was little to there do save worship and knit. Not a bad way to spend a few [...]

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