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Home, Sick
Hello Dear Readers! After a long weekend spent traveling halfway across the country, my world has shrunk to here: I picked up a cold somewhere in San Francisco, and thinking back to all the surfaces I came into contact, I’m really glad that this is all I picked up. It is a dirty, dirty, dirty…
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An Essential Quality in a Knitter
Thank you readers for sharing your suggestions for positive alternatives to all the political nastiness going on out there! Hearing about all your constructive activities was very encouraging. Knitting (and buying yarn) has remained my primary response to stress lately, which was all well and good until I realized I had four projects that had…
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Instead of Cursing the Darkness
This has been a craptastic year for world events, hasn’t it? Stateside we have this election year that has been doing a great job of bringing out the worst in people. Not as bad as other things that could be happening, but still, a bunch of politicians sniping relentlessly at one another is not making…
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In the Middle
Here we are, knitters, in the middle of the year. This holiday weekend is billed as the epitome of vivacity by cooking and lifestyle magazines, but here in Kansas it has been uniformly dour. Some rain, but mostly just solid, dull clouds and a cool wind. Malthus and I are on the couch, listening to…
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Plugging Away
The Twenty Ten cardigan is getting a time out while I decide what to do about the three-stitch disparity between my gauge and the pattern gauge. In the meantime, I have picked up my Midtown cardigan again. If I can just get past the fronts, I may actually finish it less than a year after…
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Restart
Far back in March, I wound the yarn for a Twenty Ten cardigan and put it with the needles in a bag. I must have been in a confident mood, because I listed that day as my start date. Sometime in April I cast on and put everything back in the bag. Today, I gave…
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The Neverending Quilt
As you well know, there have been some gaps in the blogging record. Some represent actual dry spells in my knitty activity, while others are times when I am consumed by another craft. Late in summer of 2014, I needed a gift for my groom, and in a moment overflowing with warm fuzzies, I decided…
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Things at Which I do Not Excel
This is a year of trying and learning: knitting patterns I’ve coveted, learning to pick instead of throwing, completing the Master Knitter coursework, spinning on a wheel, and learning to sew like a grownup. Sometimes, I’m a little daunted by all I’ve taken on. There’s really no reason it had to be done all at…
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Never Too Late for a Hat
Welcome to one cold May, people. I don’t know what the weather’s like where you’re at, but here in Kansas it is gloomy, chilly, and damp. While other crafters are kicking off Me Made May with bright, springy little outfits, I am quite glad to have a hat. This is my Koolhaas hat, only nine…
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Tornado Knitting
Good evening, all. This night’s knitting began with me losing a 10.5 circular needle in a 100-square-foot room, so prepare yourselves. This may be a rambling post. I haven’t talked too much about the weather this year. Spring has, by and large, been lovely. After a mild winter, spring was surprisingly, deliciously cool. Bunches of…
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