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Archive for March, 2009

Last night, I turned the heel on the new STR sock club sock and in a flurry of knitting, worked my way almost to the toe. I loved the slipstitch (purl) heel so very very much that I stopped mid heel to snap a few pictures for posterity. The heels are made by slipping knit [...]

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I know last week I was all about the new Cat Bordhi sock, and while I had the best of intentions to stay loyal to that sock, this week everything changed when I went to the mail. And found this: I haven’t loved a kit this much since the Monsoon kit that came out in [...]

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I finished the Hedera socks today. It would have been sooner, however, I couldn’t find my darning needles for a few days and it’s very hard to Kitchener stitch a toe without a darning needle. So, here they are in all their glory! Pattern: Hedera (Ravelry Link) by Cookie A. Yarn: Dream in Color Smooshy [...]

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Still waiting on the extra ball of yarn to finish the Big Blue Sweater. Seems as though I may be able to get my hands on one this weekend as someone I know offered to return one to my LYS as she had extra. I teach there every Sunday, so I should have the sweater [...]

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I swear, the big blue sweater is eating yarn. Or, maybe the baby is eating the yarn. Either way, I have run right smack out of yarn… again. Which is weird, since the pattern, featured in this months aptly named Knitting magazine calls for 5 balls of the yarn I am using. I bought five [...]

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I have been marching right along on the blue project that I posted about at the end of February. The good news is that although it’s a bit of a fire hazzard (given it’s 49% acrylic content), I still really like it and am looking forward to finishing it. The bad news is that I [...]

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Now I Want a Pony…

Talk about throwing it out to the universe. A few days ago I blogged that I wanted, above all, to leave the legacy of knitting with my children. And the very next day (I kid you not!), totally unprompted, my kid comes to me and out of the blue, asks me if I will teach [...]

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Something I Pondered

Two things happened this week, which made me ponder both just how lucky I was to stumble over the whole knitting thing and just how unlucky I was that no one of significance in my life taught me how to knit. See, over the weekend, as part of my job (I am so darned fortunate [...]

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