Category: Knitting
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Pot holders
I have entered end-of-project obsession. The latest Christmas knitting project must be off my needles by the end of the month, or I will toss it off the roof and cast on everything in my Ravelry queue in rebellion. While you wait for news reports of a crazed knitter in Phoenix, you should listen to…
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Stash Begone
Happy Tuesday, dear readers! Today’s posting will be sadly brief–I have to make my apartment acceptable to be seen by company, and I don’t expect that to be an easy task. But Arizona’s low desert permitted rain glorious rain to fall on her soil, so I am snuggled up with Melba on the couch and…
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Alien Baby
Here we have it, a second post in as many days! I may get back on track yet. We have talked about my thing for knitting weird toys for new babies before. If a president’s publicity stunt can make predators children’s toys, I see no reason why prehistoric and mythical creatures can’t be children’s toys…
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Getting my Knit Together
Thank you everyone for your commiseration on the vest! After nearly sixteen years knitting, I should know that garments need to be tried on before they are nearly finished. But no, I waited to try on the vest until I was halfway done with the collar. What I did not take the time to show…
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Little Critters
There is a little baby coming in our circle of friends, and I am knitting it something so it can be strollered about in style. Well, probably not a little baby: both its parents are tall. I have bought yarn accordingly. More to come very soon, because worsted-weight yarn after weeks of lace is giddyingly…
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Volcanoes and High Seas
Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments on the blanket! After the dazedness that comes right after finishing a big project, I am feeling very pleased. I have another FO too, and I am absolutely dying to show you, but I can’t…because it’s a Christmas gift. I know–Christmas is eons away. It certainly feels like…
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A Long Time Coming
Hello again, dear readers–I have resurfaced! Thanks for your patience as I knitted, sewed, and crocheted like a fiend. Objective: finish my longest-running UFO. Seven years ago, I made my mom the first squares for a patchwork blanket for Mummy. Why? I’m not sure. I don’t like seaming, and patchwork = seaming. But I had…
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Bright Brown Morning Sky
This morning I got up, all excited by the nice gentle warmth in the air (believe me, it won’t last past mid-morning), went to the window to greet the day…and got an eyeful of smog. See it hanging there around the mountain? Ickies. I had to, had to, had to submit a job application before…
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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…
Anti-Quotidian 