I have been working pretty much exclusively on a small blanket in Canada. I arrived in Toronto and then drove, with my parents, into Quebec. Quebec is really a very nice Province in my opinion. Pretty much nothing is in English. We went to the marvelous walled city, Old Quebec, and wandered around the old cobblestone streets. It seems as though we were there for almost two hours before heading on our way. As I am quite determined to get this blanket finished up during this trip (perhaps this will be the deadline I will meet) I got my project out to start working on it only to find a mistake about eight or so rows back. Realizing I had failed to bring along with me a crochet hook, a tool that would be most useful at this point, we set off in search of one. Well, this presented other fun and active complications! We pulled into a little town called Montmagny and stopped off first at a Canadian tire store (for all my non Canadian friends this is NOT actually a place that is a big tire store. Somewhat similar to a wal mart) to see if anyone there could point us in the direction of a store that would have such an item. The employees were kind enough to locate someone that actually spoke English and we were then told about a fabric store in town that might have something. Upon entering the fabric store we found that it was very much a fabric store! No hook in sight. The lady that was running the shop also did not speak English nor did the several customers that were shopping there. We tried charades, a variety of different word options and finally a picture that then led us to a store a quarter mile down the road to a yarn shop! A wonderful sight to behold! The owner there also did not speak English but we were able to get the hook and had a very pleasant time looking and communicating. After getting back on the road the hook came out and fixed up the mistake quickly and with a great deal a of ease! A fun and wonderful day. I am hoping to get to a yarn shop that i have been greatly interested in for some time tomorrow. Until next time...

Happy Knitting!