Category: Knit American
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All the Sweaters
Querido’s Steve McQueen Weekend Cardigan in Quince & Co. Osprey is coming along… and I have also started swatching for a Midtown cardigan in some yummy Romney from Vermont Grand View Farm. What’s on your needles this Sunday?
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Curse be Darned
Remember this addition to the stash? It arrived early this year as a wedding present: Quince & Co. Osprey in Peacoat. Yarn as a wedding present is quite knitterish, I know, but there is a method to my madness. I mentioned that this yarn is being knitted into a sweater for somebody. Well, that certain…
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On a Roll
Good morning and thank you all so much for your lovely comments on the cape and shawls 🙂 I think I’m on a roll with finishing things…or maybe I’ve finally discovered the joy of bulky yarn. Last weekend, I fished around in my stash and found a skein plus a smidge of Quince & Co.…
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The Extra Mile
Last year, I submitted you all to a lot of fussing about Christmas gifts, which I never revealed. The truth is…I fibbed. I wasn’t knitting Christmas gifts, I was knitting wedding stoles. Soon after Querido and I were engaged, I hit upon this brilliant plan. I was going to go the extra mile, and not…
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Small Triumphs
One week in, most of the downstairs boxes are packed, but there are still clods of crumpled newspaper and stray sheets of bubble wrap everywhere, defying my attempts to keep unpacked packing material in the garage. For all the new space I find myself with, it is oddly inefficient. My wall calendar has yet to…
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The Epic Shawl
Thanks guys for your comments on the last post! We are thoroughly installed back home now: I bought groceries for a week and washed a small mountain of laundry and have a nice thankyou bag of goodies all ready for Melba’s sitter (or carrier, more accurately). I was all ready to sit down and write…
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Getting Things Done
Edited to add: I nearly forgot the blocking story on the tank! Scroll down for more Today is a getting things done sort of day. Lots and lots of things. I was going to guilt trip myself about taking the day off until I realized that I have basically spent the entire day on cleaning,…
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How Much More Pink?
As a general rule, I love color. Pops of red, rich browns, soft grays, soothing blue and a snap of orange: all these colors are lovely. Longtime readers know, of course, that I will drop everything and swim through an alligator tank to get to any shade of green. But the pink is bringing me…
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First I Have to Procrastinate
I have a cover letter to write and an oral presentation to whip together (in Spanish), but first I have to procrastinate a bit. Get my sillies out, as it were. To say I have been busy would be rawther a large understatement. I’ve been very busy. Given the choice between sleep and stashbusting, however,…
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