What a Life!

When it comes to handpainted yarn, I have mixed feelings. The colorways look so pretty when you shop for them online, but then you get them and they aren’t quite what you expected. Then when you knit them up, you get pooling and striping and all sorts of “effects” (rather than the colors being mixed […]

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For some reason I’ve been in a slump lately. I don’t know if I’m worn out because I have lots of irritating things (such as the one discussed yesterday) or if I’m having a hard time coping with such simple problems because I am simply worn out. There has been little knitting going on lately. […]

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Right before all the hoopla started last weekend, I grabbed a number of my finished and on-the-needles knitting projects and snapped some pictures. Here are the highlights… This is a little Pack-Pack from Little Turtle Knits that I actually did the technical editing for Theresa back before Joey was born. I felted it last winter […]

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Well, I finished the back of St. Brigid. [Pictures later.] The Charcoal Slogalong is done about up to the armholes in front. And because I’m tired of working on those two projects for now [I will be happy doing them when I come back to them…you know, absence makes the heart grow fonder sorta thing…], […]

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When you design something, you have this picture in your mind of how it is going to come out. But even if you do everything exactly like you planned, it doesn’t always look exactly like what you had in mind. Case in point… The closure – yes? no? Am I just hung up on what […]

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Okay, the other day I talked about my valient efforts on those two huge, intimidating projects. Then you know what I did? I stopped working on them and worked on something else. Namely, my sock for the month of May. Now you must understand, I said earlier this year that I was going to knit […]

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