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Let It Snow
Here is what it looks like from my office window and my backyard these days: And here is the yoke to my top-down raglan sweater so far. With all this snow, and everything being cancelled, you might...
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ZOMG!
The "Z" here refers to NEW ZEALAND!! Yes, here I am on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Queenstown, New Zealand. Ah, the magic of modern air travel. Here is how bad it was getting back home in PDX just...
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For Breakfast In Bed
It’s kind of a long story, but what the heck — you’ve got some time to kill, right? I’ll valiantly try to keep it short. A decade ago, plus or minus, my brother and I were back in Iowa, helping my mom...
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Girliest. Yarn. Ever.
And it's MINE! Yay! This yarn comes from "Plum Crazy Ranch", and I bought it within 30 minutes of arriving at OFFF on Saturday morning. The creator said she'd had it hanging up for a year and a half...
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Workin’ on the UFO’s: “Luna” Tee
A few posts back, I mentioned that I seem to have developed not so much a New Year's Resolution, as an End-Of-Year Resolution: to finish up the last few remaining UFO's in my knitting pile. And so,...
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Luna Tee finished!
OK, OK, I admit that in the last post on this subject, I didn't spell out every little detail about exactly how I was going to finish this bad boy off… but then there would be no suspense left for the...
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My Knitting Wish List for 2010
Hey, I finally put together a list for What I Want to Knit This Year! Yeah, well, so what if it's mid-February? This idea has been kind of nagging at me for a month or so — but what finally prompted me...
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Fun with M***c Balls
OK, so you know I don't like to use the "m" word when it comes to knitting, because KNITTING is not actually MAGIC. But a few weeks ago, in my "what-I-want-to-knit-this-year" list, I mentioned a...
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Green Mohair FO
Finally, I got something finished! These pics were taken before I washed and blocked it, and the sleeves seemed a little on the short side at the time — but fortunately I was able to block them out a...
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There, I Fixed It
OK, I'll be the first to admit that the last post was perhaps a bit premature. Hey, I was excited to have gotten something finished. Thus it was that, after really looking at the difference between my...
View ArticleVintage Patterns for Classic Style
I love, love, LOVE old knitting books. Old VKs are a fave, but I’ll thumb through just about anything. (And I have the overflowing bookshelf in my studio to prove it.) Often you can find a stitch...
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