Winters’ Day In
Conversations on life, faith, stories, and creativity from author Talena Winters.
Pour a cuppa and stay awhile.
Through the Fire
We’re in the worst wildfire season in Alberta’s history, but there’s a lot of other life stuff happening too. Thankfully, most of it’s good.
Peaks and Valleys
When the blahs happen two weeks a month, it’s not just depression… Also, update on my slow productivity mission, what I did this week in my business (hint: knitting pattern update), and some sad news about my grandmother.
The Year of Playing with Words and Yarn
This year, I'm taking my knitting business in a slightly new direction, one designed to respark my joy, to borrow an overused trending phrase. I have decided to take a year off of publishing new patterns, and have declared this my "Year of Playing With Words and Yarn." That means you’ll be hearing more about knitting. And that’s a good thing.
When You Just Can’t Do It All
Lately, I've been getting that too-familiar "overwhelmed" feeling. Looking back over the first six months of this year, I am coming to a difficult conclusion: I still can't do it all. So it's time to reset some priorities.
7 Moments to Remember
A collection of my favourite daily moments in the last one or two weeks.
The Great Pacific Northwest (Self-Led) Yarn Store Crawl
The area around Seattle is a knitter’s heaven as far as local yarn stores are concerned. Here are a few we hit up while we were there.
Novel Revisions and Holiday Hopes
What’s filling my month: a stomach bug and revising my first novel.
Introducing the Brennan Hat (knitting pattern)
Announcing the Brennan Hat knitting pattern from My Secret Wish Knitting and the story behind it.
Lined Seamless Mittens (Knitting Pattern)
The original post for my original design of a Lined Seamless Mittens pattern. This pattern has since been deprecated in favour of the the updated and redesigned Just Plain Mittens, which can be found on my knitting website, My Secret Wish Knitting. Enjoy the pics of my cute kiddos, though!