Category: Knitting
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Never too Late for a Scarf
Hello All! My camera battery was in need of a good charge, so photos of Knitting in the Heartland goodies will have to wait. Allow me to distract you with this post that was marinating in the drafts… I have this thing with scarves. Somehow, they’re hard for me. First, there’s the difficulty of…
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Different City, Same Mouse
Last weekend, I attended the Knitting in the Heartland conference as a birthday gift for Querido, for whom I may need to knit another sweater after all the fiber I’ve bought. It was a fabulous birthday present, and a wonderful experience. The members of the Sunflower Knitting Guild were numerous and friendly, the vendor hall…
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The Bucket List
Earlier this year, when I lacked the brain space to blog, I was able to keep up with my blog reading. This provided a certain vicarious pleasure, but I found my comments falling into a rut. “I’ve always wanted to make that!” “I bought the yarn for this project years ago!” I’ve always wanted to…
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Testing, Testing
Hello, all. I may have found the cure for a bad mood: The Girl on the Train. I mean, a quiet night of reading is a good opportunity to unwind and recharge, but Hawkin’s suburbia is populated with people who have far larger problems than I do, which does put things in perspective. Of course…
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Still Knitting
Hello, dear readers. This may look like a picture of ribbing, or the beginning of a ribbed beanie, but it is actually a picture of three weeks. Three weeks is a long time in blog land, but in real life it went by in a snap. In these three weeks, I had my first tenure…
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Planning
Today in the US we have a holiday. I am trying to make the most of the day, alternating knitting in my jammies with lightbulb-changing and handknit handwashing. Last week at this time, Querido and I were on a train bound for Inverness and the Great Tapestry of Scotland. As I sit here, well…
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Let’s Commence to Coordinate our Sights
(Title thanks to the Decemberists) Happy New Year to you all, dear readers! Twenty fifteen was a big year. Querido and I got married. We explored our new home state. We were lucky enough to be able to join two sets of friends in celebrating their weddings, and sent our well-wishes to two others. There…
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Mostly Here
Greetings, dear readers, from the land of the barely awake. Few words this morning, but I have pretty things to show you. Lovely KnitCircus gradient yarn that came in the bag of funder goodies from the Great Northern Knits Kickstarter. A Talamu shawl, with the end in sight.
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The Middle Bit
Yesterday I did a very impressive thing: I went into a nice yarn store, and I didn’t buy any yarn. Some friends and I were at the Yarn Barn. I don’t know what happened the first time I was there, because it didn’t seem like a particularly exciting store. Yesterday was an entirely different story:…
Anti-Quotidian 