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Red Reveal
Where have I been? Not on the blog very often. But I promised you a FO post a while back, and here it is! The FO is my iteration of Leah’s Lovely Cardigan from More Last-Minute Knitted Gifts. It is emphatically not sweater weather in Phoenix, so pictures had to wait until we were up…
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And Now for the Icky Part of Summer
Hello, my bloggy peeps. If you are not in Phoenix right now, congratulations. The monsoon is here, making the weather hazy and muggy and generally awful. Truly. I’m not just bellyaching this time. My knitting has been all over the board lately. I finished the red sweater that would never end, which gets its own…
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One Year Ago Today
One year ago today, I adopted Melba. Querido and I had found her a week before crossing a big busy intersection. She was in poor shape: dirty, ill-fed, and carrying ticks. We fed her, cleaned her up, and embarked on the messy process of incorporating a dog into our lives. One year, two “mildly cancerous”…
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I Am Aware That My Yarn is Glowing
Sadly, the fact that I’m working on another project does not mean that my sweater is done. I tried the garter stitch buttonband and didn’t like the way it looked, so I ripped the whole thing out and am doing an applied i-cord. Kate Davies has used this edging to great effect on many of…
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Chair Hog
I have one recliner, and somehow, it’s not quite big enough for Melba and me to sit on at once. Clearly, one of us is a chair hog. Melba says it’s me. I say it’s Melba.
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Shine
First visit to Shine Coffee’s permanent home, across the street from the Heard. Although their other coffee shop is an Airstream, this place is way too cute.
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