Reminiscing-NOVA SCOTIA

 Every once in awhile a little video pops up in my feed and this morning it was this charming video my friend made of the four of us on our trip to Nova Scotia...of course it was a knitting journey. We were on our way to the Prince Edward Island Fibre Festival.  We did a lot of sight seeing on our way.  We rented a beautiful little cottage and toured Halifax which is a fabulous port town.  I loved the maritime museum, just filled with history especially about the huge explosion that totally decimated the harbor.

BUT on a happier note, this is more like what we did while in Nova Scotia, we never got to Prince Edward Island but we did stay in our cottage and roamed around in the little shops, here is the local yarn shop!. We all bought yarn and patterns for hats here, the hats were called "Everyone Loves This Hat" and we all knitted them.

Every morning we went to our favorite coffee shop for coffee and buns and we sat and knitted, This is the beginning of socks, next to the pumpkins that were on the table.

These were the places we liked to hang out.  There were wonderful cozy yarn shops with all kinds of old antique spinning wheels and baskets. Lots of wool and hand dyed yarn and knitting books.  There were patterns for mittens with instructions to knit a "trigger finger" for hunters.  Very interesting.

This yarn shop sold lots of un-dyed wool so you could dye your own.  Many people use natural dyes and make beautiful colors from plants and vegetables.

We were hearing that a huge hurricane was thundering up the East coast and we were warned that it was headed straight for Prince Edward Island and that the festival was sure to be closed down.  This was Hurricane Ian I believe.  

We actually hightailed it back to the airport and were able to grab the last rooms, all the flights were cancelled so we stayed in the hotel for two nights waiting for the hurricane.  We did go out and danced in the wind and rain; who could miss an opportunity like that!  We were breathless!