Category: Knitting
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And Now for the Icky Part of Summer
Hello, my bloggy peeps. If you are not in Phoenix right now, congratulations. The monsoon is here, making the weather hazy and muggy and generally awful. Truly. I’m not just bellyaching this time. My knitting has been all over the board lately. I finished the red sweater that would never end, which gets its own…
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Make Your Own Boyfriend
We made it back from Coachella, slightly sunburnt but in one piece. Lots of knitting happened in the car and between bands, but I suffered a bout of camnesia and didn’t actually document any of it. While I work on remedying that, here is an adorable video discovered by my non-knitted boyfriend: http://www.noortjedekeijzer.nl/work/my-knitted-boyfriend-2/
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On Holiday
The new Holla Knits is out, and darn are the new patterns cute. I guess this means that I need to finish all my projects from last year’s patterns! Thankfully, we are road-tripping this weekend, and I am in the passenger’s seat. It’s amazing how much knitting I can get done when I just sit…
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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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I Would Love to Talk Knitting this Morning
…But nothing’s new in the knitting world. I am trudging to the underarm on the body of my Red cardigan, and it looks pretty much the same as it has for the past 3 weeks. Look at one of the new murals from downtown instead. What’s new and exciting on your Friday?
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I’m Getting Better at this Knitting Thing…Sort of.
Post Script to Friday: After wearing the Velma sweater all day Friday, I came to the conclusion I was not happy with the way the neck of the sweater had stretched out and caused the ribbing to hang funny off my shoulders. If I am feeling adventurous, I might crochet around the neck. Alternately, I…
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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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A New Tactic
Knitting time has fallen by the wayside these past many weeks, and my peace of mind was definitely the worse for it. So I’m trying a rawther novel approach: instead of writing about knitting, I am actually going to knit. It’s so crazy, it might work. I am also making kale chips. Kale is inexpensive…
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Uncle
The girls at Holla Knits have done it again, putting together a second collection of knits so irresistibly cute that once seen, they must be knitted. Here I am, wading in UFOs, and what do I do? Stop by the first yarn shop I can find and buy enough tweed for a lime green Sexxxy…
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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…
Anti-Quotidian 