Category: Finished Object
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Late to the Game
Hello all and Happy 2013! I am fighting a cold, hence my late arrival in the ranks of bloggers summarizing the year past. No two ways about it, 2012 has a whopper. I adopted Melba. I bought a car. I got hearing aids. I got a new job. I moved into an apartment. Three friends…
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The Semester Ends
Today, the semester ends and we all take a long break. The mouse, completed with the help of loud music, is for my lovely office-mate, who never complained once about being interrupted with my random questions, or my messiness, or my ever-expanding pinecone collection.
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A Sweater for Melba
The weather here has been ridiculous lately: a brisk 50-odd degrees first thing in the morning that warms to a high of 80 in the afternoons. And not just for a few minutes at four p.m., either. So although I’m broiling in my wool skirts and long sleeves at lunchtime, poor Melba has been shivering…
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Destashing
I interrupted my regular schedule of knitting to whip up a quick Purl Beret for Monita. Monita’s original request was for an all-burgundy hat. That color ran out pretty quickly, hence the gray, but I’m pleased with how the burgundy at the brim is a pop of color around the wear we’d face. My go-to…
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At Long Last
I’ve had a long dry run on finished objects. For as long as it took me to complete, the romper was the youngest in a large pile of UFOs. Among the oldest objects in the pile was my rag rug. The idea had come to me around the time of the release of the first…
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I Battle Vertigo
The romper is done. Done!!! It’s amazing. This was not a hard project, really. I made it a bit harder than it needed to be by knitting it in a superwash yarn that would shrink after its first washing (I had to knit the whole thing bigger than I needed it, ergo I couldn’t try…
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Vintage Baby Hat
Finished object on a Friday! Check out the project details on Ravelry, if you’re so inclined!
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Ides
Beware the Ides of march! Unless, of course, you are my friend in France. In that case, one should eat cake on the Ides of March! I, for one, am rawther shocked it is already the middle of the month. Last I checked, it was February. But somewhere in that past month, I have…
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