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What Next?
Well good morning everyone and hello new readers! When Sarah Instagrammed the sweater I knit in her Less Traveled yarn, I had no idea how much traffic would result. Then the spam comments started popping up, and I realized there had to be a fair number of real eyeballs out there too. So I guess…
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Year Out, Year In
Greetings, all, from the cusp of the new year. The old year ended with a deliciously gray, rainy day. We had a rare few days of proper winter here in Phoenix, with dirty clouds, a sharp breeze, and threats of freezing overnight. I know all this is nothing novel to a lot of you, but…
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Merry Monday
Merry Christmas, if you’re celebrating, Merry Monday everyone else. We haven’t begun festivities yet and are just putting the house to rights. Laundry was washed, a huge bag of tunas were boiled so I didn’t trip over the darned things another day, and now I’m sitting with some coffee and an unfinished Christmas gift. I…
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Of Course it Will Work
Hello dear readers! Last I checked in we were talking about insanely large deadline projects and how Phoenix summer was refusing to die. Well, the remnants of a storm from Mexico finally chased off the worst of the heat and the plain old tipping of the planet did the rest, and I’m onto a new…
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Large-Ish
While I was pondering where the dickens my summer went, I remembered there was this other thing I knitted. It was a blanket called Intarsia Mountain, a test-knit for the super cool, super nice Heidi of Hands Occupied. It was sort of large-ish. Ok, it used seven skeins’ worth of yarn in 10 colors, I…
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Summer of Shawls
Hello there readers. Remember me? I’ve been feeling a lot lately like I am in a Groundhog Day-esque alternate reality. I wake up, think “hey, it’d be nice if I blogged today,” and then the day is eaten up in a never-ending stream of baby duties punctuated by halfhearted housekeeping. Then I crash into bed,…
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Undone by Peanut Butter
Hello all, we’re getting closer to something resembling organization over here. Peanut has begun sleeping in his crib, giving me a few brief interludes in the day during which I can complete tasks unimpeded or, novelty of novelties, string two thoughts together. Remember back at the beginning of the year, when I was going to…
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Bottom of the Bag
Goodness–where have the weeks gone? One minute I was furiously knitting Mother’s Day gifts and the next it was August. Some kids are already back in school in Phoenix, which I simply cannot wrap my head around. We are still in the throes of summer, weather-wise, and we will remain so for another month at…
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Reallyfast
*reallyfast* I wanted to check in and say that deadline knitting is moving forward. *reallyfast* My new Sucre Sucre Miniature progress keeper is the best thing ever. It’s like a tiny little wedge of Babybel and it makes me sooo happy. *reallyfast* Peanut has discovered the secret to moving forward and nothing is safe. Phones. …
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Spring Things
Welcome back dear readers! The heat is kicking in in earnest. As I have discussed many times over, I do not like being hot, or being stuck inside when it’s too hot to bake, or the relentless sunshine, but there is an upside: the heat will KILL ALL THE BLOOMING THINGS. I have progressed from…
Anti-Quotidian 