Tag: Vega
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In Which I Throw Technique to the Wind
I am officially obsessed with my Vega beret. The project began with a bit of trepidation: first the mathy acrobatics involved in getting gauge. I always need to go up a needle size for everything (use a 6?), but ribbing is usually knitted on needles 1 size smaller than the body of the project (use […]
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Good things in a Small Package
I simply love getting things in the mail. (We’ve discussed this before). The anticipation, the package, the return address to someplace far away with a name that evokes far-off hills, and sheep, and people in sweaters wrapping bouncy skeins of wool in cream-colored places and sending it to the far corners of the country (in […]