Category: Stash
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Well That Was a Year
How are you doing everyone? Holding up ok? We’re all more or less ok over here but wow…that was a year, and 2021 is shaping up to have a similar level of tumult.* It started with a move, and then a baby, and then a pandemic, and a new job…and the whole “knit 17,543 yards…
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Stashdown Quarter 1: Easily Distracted
Welcome back, readers, and thank you for all your well wishes on the last post. I hope you are all healthy and surviving this massive disruption. Staying at home was what I expected to be doing with my March so the Stashdown has proceeded without unexpected issues. The issue I should have expected is my…
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Why Stop at Nine?
Welcome back, everyone! Thanks for taking the time to catch up with my New Year’s post. Ready to look at my plans for the year ahead? Me too!* If you’re on Instagram, you’ve probably seen the Make Nine challenge, where sewists and other makers pick out nine projects they’d like to complete in the year…
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Here we are, everyone. We made it into a new decade. Did you all get through 2019 ok? Last year was a hard one for me. I said that about the year before last, but somehow last year got harder. Good things came, but not without a fight. I am so grateful to all the…
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Year Out, Year In
Greetings, all, from the cusp of the new year. The old year ended with a deliciously gray, rainy day. We had a rare few days of proper winter here in Phoenix, with dirty clouds, a sharp breeze, and threats of freezing overnight. I know all this is nothing novel to a lot of you, but…
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Getting my Knit Together
Good news everyone! WordPress support helped me find my missing post. Somehow a draft version had overwritten the final version, which was thankfully still sitting in history. I feel rather silly I hadn’t thought to check in history, but user error is one of the easiest tech problems to fix, so I was like a…
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State of the Stash: Final Reckoning for 2017
Hello dear readers and welcome back! I have a finished object to share with you all, but it occurred to me that it might, just maybe, be a good idea to sum up my 2017 stashing before the end of 2018’s first quarter. I started beating myself up about my lackluster knitting output, but then…
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State of the Stash: Third Quarter
Happy fall everybody! Peanut and I (and Querido and the fuzzies) are doing well. The temperature has dropped to a positively frigid 70º in the morning, and Querido and I are turning poor Peanut into a thin-blooded Phoenician by bundling him up for his walk every morning. He’s built up quite a layer of his…
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State of the Stash – Second Quarter
Thank you all for your kind comments on my latest FOs! On the other side of the scale, I’m here today to talk about the yarn that’s come into my stash in the past few months. You’ll recall at the end of the first quarter, I was on my way to breaking even, having already…
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State of the Stash – First Quarter
Good evening, everyone! I am pushing the limits of my bedtime right now, but the first quarter has passed and April is zooming away, so I wanted to post a check-in on the state of the stash! There have been several additions this year: I already mentioned my handspinning efforts, and if you’d asked, I…
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