Category: Knitting
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One from the Archives
Continuing the theme of cats sitting on knitwear, we have Malthus sitting on a wrap I knitted ages ago. It was when I was a new knitter, and Brown Sheep still sold yarn in hanks. The yarn store I shopped at, the only one in the Valley, had a whole wall of these hanks, a…
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Everything is a Kitty Bed
Hello, dear readers. How have you been? I feel like a very bad blogger, sneaking in after a long absence and hoping all’s forgiven. Will a cat picture appease you? I finished Querido’s sweater, just barely in time for the cold weather. …If you count having four buttons instead of six as done. My vintage…
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Hidden Treasures
When I am trawling Ravelry, searching for just the right pattern, the pattern that will fit all my hopes for a particular yarn, the pattern that everyone loves, I will occasionally come across a pattern that hardly anyone has knitted. I always stop to wonder why–are none of the people who knit this one on…
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Adventurous
Well, Querido’s sweater still looks like a blob of navy blue fabric, so let’s look at something else. Francis! (Details on Ravelry) This top represents the last of my summer of top knitting. First came the Kansas Spring, then a Cap-Sleeve Lattice Top that, with one exception, flew under the radar. Francis was started way…
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The Squirrels are Crazed
Querido and I were gone for a week–just barely–and when we returned, the weather had turned. Fall is here. The forecast suggests we may bump back up into the 80s next week, but I’m watching the squirrels. After keeping out of sight all summer, they are positively crazed now. Every day at work I…
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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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All the Garter
It’s been a hot weekend here in Kansas, with bright days of 100 degrees or very nearly. They have a nifty thing called a heat index here, which must have something to do with humidity because I never heard the term bandied about in Phoenix. As far as I can tell, it means that even…
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Half the Year
Half the year has passed in a flash: winter, then spring, and now we are speeding through summer. This midway point has inspired me to clean out closets, to pretty up the house, and to clean up my Ravelry page. Those of you on Ravelry have probably noticed that this last is a time-consuming endeavor.…
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Listen to the Math
(Title thanks to Tokyo Police Club.) Happy Friday all! I don’t know about you, but I am in need of a little extra time to slow down and remember what’s important. I remain determined to finish my little sweater, but part of that resolve means proceeding cautiously, without my usual rush-rush-rush. So Sleeve 2 was…
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