Life's a Stitch

Vancouver is known for its natural beauty combined with a colourful mixture of cultures. There are many English language schools that attract young people from all over the world and there is a large market for international home stay families. We have hosted over fifty students in ten years.

Vancouver as a cultural mecca was driven home to me the other night when we sat around the dinner table for a farewell party for the Swiss Miss, Marielle (second from the left). There were ten of us, four "older" adults, six students in their 20’s, and eight countries represented at the table: Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, the US, Canada, Korea, Japan and England.

On the knitting front, I have one less UFO, not in the usual sense, because I FROGGED the Autumn Silk Cardigan. I wasn’t paying attention and grew frustrated with knitting it back. That Estelle Mystik frogs so easily! Not like the sticky mohair I’ve used in the past. Oh well.