Tag: Norwegian Snail Mittens
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Two Mittens
A week to the day after I completed my mittens, I’ve finally got my blog back on. Here are the stats:Pattern: Norwegian Snail Mittens out of Book of Yarn, designed by Adrian BiziliaYarn: Dalegarn’s Baby Ull, just under one skein each 3718 (maraschino) and 0007 (grey), plus a small amount of 0090 (black). The latter…
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Dos Caracoles
(Two Snails) I have hit my stride with the Norwegian Snail Mittens, and I’m totally obsessed. I never would’ve thought I could get this into a pattern involving Fair Isle–the epitome of fiddly knits. But there’s something addictive about doing just one more row to see the pattern progress. Then another, and another… I’ve even…
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Happy Thoughts
I’ve got my happy thoughts: 1. The new Knitty is up. Yes, it’s been up for like a week now. Humor me. 2. I have a cool bag to carry my knitting out and about in. Technically, it hasn’t been out and about yet, but it will be. Right now, I’m using it to keep…
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In a Funk
And not the dance floor kind. This entry began as a bit of a mind dump, and more than a little bit of a downer, so I’m going to condense and hopefully not bring everyone down with my bad karma. 1. The Internet, I’ve discovered, is like an illustrated supplemental index. In addition to Adrian’s…
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Puzzle Conundrum Enigma
The GRE is over (everybody laud the heavens), I am in bed recuperating from ear surgery (see item two on this post), and I am faced with a new conundrum. What do I do with all this time? My convalescence is not such that I am in a continual haze. I’m awake most of the…
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Seeing Red
This weekend was a somewhat rocky one in project-dom. I attribute the trouble to my setting out to complete things. Why else would not one but two projects–in as many days–conspire against me? First there was a recycled t-shirt project that I’ve been working on, literally, for months. It began as a little seam-sewing exercise…
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