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Let’s Commence to Coordinate our Sights
(Title thanks to the Decemberists) Happy New Year to you all, dear readers! Twenty fifteen was a big year. Querido and I got married. We explored our new home state. We were lucky enough to be able to join two sets of friends in celebrating their weddings, and sent our well-wishes to two others. There…
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Mostly Here
Greetings, dear readers, from the land of the barely awake. Few words this morning, but I have pretty things to show you. Lovely KnitCircus gradient yarn that came in the bag of funder goodies from the Great Northern Knits Kickstarter. A Talamu shawl, with the end in sight.
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Forward and Back
Happy Black Friday, readers–did you all survive the shopping? I woke up to a window glazed in ice and decided that this was not a day for going out. More time for knitting, right? I found that the best way to get out of the middle bit of my Midtown Cardigan was to go through. …
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Thankful
Happy Thanksgiving, all you Americans. Happy random Thursday night, everyone else. While Kansas proclaims WINTER outside my iffily insulated little home, I am thankful for many things. My sweetest Querido, who’d better have his sweater on right now. My family and friends (how about you all put on your sweaters for good measure too). My…
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The Middle Bit
Yesterday I did a very impressive thing: I went into a nice yarn store, and I didn’t buy any yarn. Some friends and I were at the Yarn Barn. I don’t know what happened the first time I was there, because it didn’t seem like a particularly exciting store. Yesterday was an entirely different story:…
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One from the Archives
Continuing the theme of cats sitting on knitwear, we have Malthus sitting on a wrap I knitted ages ago. It was when I was a new knitter, and Brown Sheep still sold yarn in hanks. The yarn store I shopped at, the only one in the Valley, had a whole wall of these hanks, a…
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Everything is a Kitty Bed
Hello, dear readers. How have you been? I feel like a very bad blogger, sneaking in after a long absence and hoping all’s forgiven. Will a cat picture appease you? I finished Querido’s sweater, just barely in time for the cold weather. …If you count having four buttons instead of six as done. My vintage…
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Hidden Treasures
When I am trawling Ravelry, searching for just the right pattern, the pattern that will fit all my hopes for a particular yarn, the pattern that everyone loves, I will occasionally come across a pattern that hardly anyone has knitted. I always stop to wonder why–are none of the people who knit this one on…
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Adventurous
Well, Querido’s sweater still looks like a blob of navy blue fabric, so let’s look at something else. Francis! (Details on Ravelry) This top represents the last of my summer of top knitting. First came the Kansas Spring, then a Cap-Sleeve Lattice Top that, with one exception, flew under the radar. Francis was started way…
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The Squirrels are Crazed
Querido and I were gone for a week–just barely–and when we returned, the weather had turned. Fall is here. The forecast suggests we may bump back up into the 80s next week, but I’m watching the squirrels. After keeping out of sight all summer, they are positively crazed now. Every day at work I…
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