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Stripes
It’s the first day of April and, although I’m not a sailor, I am waxing poetic about all things nautical. Chiaki Hayashi’s “March Nautical Hat” Josee Paquin’s “Robin” “Vienna” by ViennaJoyRunner ©...
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knotty knitting
Back when I was still living in Chicago and working full-time, I would spend most of my lunch hours in the lobby of the 900 North Michigan building, eating a packed lunch and knitting. As I sat there...
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Ten Reasons for Knitters to be Happy
I woke up cranky this morning. I’m not sure why, maybe because we paid our taxes over the weekend, or maybe because the Hubbs got called out of town unexpectedly, throwing a monkey wrench into my...
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Yarn Saver
A while back I posted about wanting to knit “Rinia”, a sweater with contiguous sleeves but I got side tracked. The yarn I originally chose for this project just wasn’t working for me and this pattern,...
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Wrap and Turn
I’m currently working on a new cardigan, “Constant Carving” by Annamaria Otvos. I love this cardigan. It’s a top-down, set in sleeve cardigan with short-row shoulders and picked up collar and button...
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Second time around?
Today’s daily prompt from “WordPress” is “second time around: Tell us about a book you can read again and again without getting bored — what is it that speaks to you? I don’t usually participate in the...
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American Wool-Man…
Contrary to a previous post where I claimed to dislike knitting “on demand” I am actually making a cardi for the BFF’s birthday this year. This isn’t technically “on demand” since she didn’t actually...
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Camelot
Apparently there is a blog culture out there that hadn’t known about until recently. A big fat community of bloggers that like to do things en mass and today I’m going to jump on their bandwagon. On...
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A Most Prized Possession
This is a picture of my most prized possession. If you asked people who know me they would be surprised to know I have a prized possession. Not that I don’t like my stuff, I’m just not a very...
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Cables and Contiguous Continued
Last week I finished my cablel-icious “Constant Carving” cardigan, designed by Annamaria Otvos ( that name should have all kinds of punctuation in it but, alas, my computer only understands English...
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Summer knitting, had me a blast….
I keep hearing people say that summer is “over”. Presumably because Labor Day is coming up this weekend and, indeed, here in the US, that is the unofficial mark of the end of summer. Labor Day weekend...
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