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The Yarn Fumes Got Me
Thank you all for your patience, everyone! Camera, light, and yarn finally came together, and here we have it: my spoils from the Knitting in the Heartland vendor hall. I tried to be really, really practical and look at everything twice before pulling out my credit card. I did look at everything twice, but…I may
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Never too Late for a Scarf
Hello All! My camera battery was in need of a good charge, so photos of Knitting in the Heartland goodies will have to wait. Allow me to distract you with this post that was marinating in the drafts… I have this thing with scarves. Somehow, they’re hard for me. First, there’s the difficulty of
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Different City, Same Mouse
Last weekend, I attended the Knitting in the Heartland conference as a birthday gift for Querido, for whom I may need to knit another sweater after all the fiber I’ve bought. It was a fabulous birthday present, and a wonderful experience. The members of the Sunflower Knitting Guild were numerous and friendly, the vendor hall
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The Bucket List
Earlier this year, when I lacked the brain space to blog, I was able to keep up with my blog reading. This provided a certain vicarious pleasure, but I found my comments falling into a rut. “I’ve always wanted to make that!” “I bought the yarn for this project years ago!” I’ve always wanted to
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Lives of Sweaters
Six years on, the Pimlico Shrug is going strong. Usually I wear it, but when the cats decide there are no other soft places to sleep, it becomes a cat bed.
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Testing, Testing
Hello, all. I may have found the cure for a bad mood: The Girl on the Train. I mean, a quiet night of reading is a good opportunity to unwind and recharge, but Hawkin’s suburbia is populated with people who have far larger problems than I do, which does put things in perspective. Of course
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Still Knitting
Hello, dear readers. This may look like a picture of ribbing, or the beginning of a ribbed beanie, but it is actually a picture of three weeks. Three weeks is a long time in blog land, but in real life it went by in a snap. In these three weeks, I had my first tenure
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What it Was Like
Almost exactly one year after our wedding, Querido and I finally took our honeymoon. Guess where? LondonLondonLondonLondonLondon (and a smidge of Edinburgh and Inverness too). We had both visited before, but how can you ever have too much of London? In some ways, we were going back. In others, it was entirely new. I would
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Planning
Today in the US we have a holiday. I am trying to make the most of the day, alternating knitting in my jammies with lightbulb-changing and handknit handwashing. Last week at this time, Querido and I were on a train bound for Inverness and the Great Tapestry of Scotland. As I sit here, well
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Travel Knitting
Sleeves and a Konditor and Cook merengue make for a good morning.
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