Category: Shop on the High Street
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New Colors!
What do you guys think? I went in from the reader’s end yesterday, and it knocked me over the head how much I dislike pastels (personal issue–they have their place, por ejemplo en suéteres de Hermanita, but not on my blog). So I changed my color scheme. Any thoughts on the new look? And yes,…
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Friends in High Places
I came out into the living room with the intention of continuing my punishment–I mean, finals–but Stella came and got into my lap before I had a chance to get my binder or my knitting, so another post it is. (Yes, I could just move the dog and get my stuff. But she’s just so…
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Week 16: Such Great Heights
I liked that song when it was a radio song, but I came to absolutely love it when my Pandora started playing it and I learned the lyrics. The freckles in our eyes are mirror images… *sigh* That song has nothing to do with Week 16 of this or any semester, except for the title.…
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Week 15: There’s Madness and then There’s Madness, or Why I Knit Christmas Gifts
Luckily, I have not had so abominable a Monday (or any day) since last posting. That’s not to say all’s roses and kittens in baskets, but definitely less abominable. As finals and the Christmas season barrel down on me simultaneously, I have had an epiphany about Christmas knitting. There are lots of divergent opinions out…
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Week 13: Abominable Monday
I am fully aware that there is enough bad karma floating about in this world, and there will be even more tomorrow, and I don’t need to add to the load, but I have been racking my brains for a week 13 post all day, and all that comes to mind is this: Today has…
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Week 11: Elizabeth Zimmerman Made Me Do It
For all I’ve been blogging about it, one would think I wasn’t knitting at all. Au contraire, my dear readers. First came the Mousie. Knit out of small amounts of Blue Sky Alpacas Sport Weight and my all-time-favorite stash yarn, Lamb’s Pride Worsted for a little instant gratification, my Mousie got me thinking about my…
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Dark Music for Dark Nights
Happy Halloween! Stella is barking with the force of a thousand Great Danes at small bands of smaller children who, quite clearly, are planning to invade our home, las Hermanitas are costuming for a party and door-answering, and I am planning on sitting down for a night of my favorite fall music and some knitting.…
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Week 10: Do Not Tell Me It’s Week 10
…Because if this is week 10, that means I need to start working on some class projects. Moving on to happy thoughts: Sunday was Stella’s Adoption Day! The day was nothing out of the ordinary–she threw up on my carpet at 5 in the morning, sat and watched Sunday Morning with us, the usual Sunday…
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Week 9: Old Knits
I was hard pressed to come up with a topic for this post. Lots o’ projects and lots o’ dry, precise writing (I can never be interesting and precise at the same time) does not make for good blog fodder. Enter Lolly. This blogger is always filled to brimming with excellent ideas that other knitters…
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Week 8: Delurking
This is really terrible–one should not have to delurk on her own blog. But the weeks have been flicking past, and I cannot in good conscience leave my poor little blog (and readers) neglected. Last fall I did week-by-week updates, with success, so let’s try that again this semester. Knitting–I had terrific success with my…
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