Category: Stash
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Guinea Pig Tails
Guinea pigs do not have external tails. I came across this curious fact of natural history when Querido commissioned me to knit a guinea pig for his mother, in honor of all the guinea pigs he’d had growing up. I agreed and began, giving it a little nubbiny tail and increasing for a rounded guinea…
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Share Time!
After coming home from Seattle with so much yarn from so much yarn, I had to get creative. The Dream in Color Smooshy has been stuffed in a bag is helping one of my purses keep its shape while being stored. Two of the skeins of Silky Alpaca Lace are in the process of fueling…
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Getting Rolling
(Jolty view from the bus window) After the snuggly, bakery-filled stasis of the holiday season, the year is getting rolling again. I have started the year with some volunteering at ASU. Traveling to ASU can only mean riding the bus, and that can only mean knitting on the bus. Woohoo! I’m coming out of a…
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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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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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I Make a List
1. The Red Scarf, a.k.a. the Movie Scarf, is in the mail. Yaaay! 2. Pandora has tried to put Modest Mouse on my Death Cab station. Extermination is underway. 3. Pictured drying beside it is my version of the Cisco baby bonnet: Baby Blue Ears. It’s heavily influenced by the brilliant B r o o…
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Changing Gears
We in the desert have lucked out with an exceptionally mild spring. Only now is it beginning the transition from gloriously pleasant to hotter than the dickens, which means it’s time to transition into a new phase of knitting projects. My hands were getting sore from all the projects I’d be doing on tiny needles,…
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Happy Easter!
With love from the stuffies, all finished. Ok–all finished as of 8 this morning, when I did eyes for the Mousie on the left. Patterns:Loch Ness Monster, by hansigurumiandMousie, by Ysolda TeagueNessie used some discontinued acrylics from the depths of my stash, and Mousie is Crystal Palace Panda Wool leftover from Mum’s Christmas socks and…
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Better with a Story
My thumb’s all better, and my mood, too! I’m giving credit for the latter to a quirky book I found at work–The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Hermanita’s gift is done–on time!–and now I’m casting about for the perfect new project. (I didn’t have time to block the lavender demon, so the reveal will have to…
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Stuck
Yikes–I have started this post three times (this is #4), and the words are just not there. How ’bout I try checking in on my New Year’s resolutions? #1 Continue knitting from the stashYep, working on that. After a really long hiatus, I finished off the February Baby Sweater. And it’s February! What are the…
Anti-Quotidian 