Category: Knitting
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Flax…What a Feeling
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any of my projects here. As I mentioned in my last post, I didn’t have a whole lot of motivation to knit in 2022. That finally kicked back in right around Thanksgiving. So, I actually started this project in December 2021, when I finally gave in to the…
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Finished Object: Nipote
It took me six months from cast on to last end woven in, and missed its recipient’s birth by a month and a half, but the baby blanket I have knitted for my nephew, lovingly called “Nipote” (both the blanket and the nephew), is finally finished. I would have loved to give this a nice…
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Hat-A-Palooza
I have something to confess: since December, I’ve been obsessed with knitting stranded colorwork hats (otherwise known as “Fair Isle” knitting). I have affectionately branded this “Hat-A-Palooza”. It started innocently enough: I had a significant amount of smaller balls of yarn to stash bust (from what The Lady Bryan sent to me for Christmas 2019),…
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People on Tinder Have Had Better Luck
So, the last couple of times I’ve gone to the store, I’ve ended up getting cakes of Lion Brand Mandala in “Spirit”, which is a gorgeous blue and gray colorway that really goes well with my eyes (which are…blue and maybe have a hint of gray). What I didn’t realize is that I would start…
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Yellow…Lots and Lots of Yellow.
So, I finished a thing. It’s mostly yellow. It’s “Don’t Huffle the Puff”. And I’ve started another thing. It’s going to be a cabled bag. I started it with a provisional cast-on using some old dishcloth cotton in the stash and a crochet hook. Once I cast on my stitches (I cast on 81 with…
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Death Stuff and Life Stuff
It’s been sad times in the knitting and crochet community lately. We’ve lost two major designers to cancer in the past month, and a little more closely to me a couple of acquaintances I had made on Ravelry also died from cancer. I’d like to talk a bit about some of them. You may remember…
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In Search of Knitting Mojo
I have to admit something: one side effect of mourning the death of my mom was that I kind of lost the desire to knit for a while. It wasn’t really her death itself that caused it, but it just seemed like for the last couple of months, I just felt no desire to pick…
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On Lockdown: May 2020 Edition (Plus, A Finished Object)
As the nation enters its third month or so of social distancing measures, I figured it would be a good time to give an update on how my family and I have been doing in isolation. Save for a couple of days last week when he went in to write up performance reviews for a…
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Who Says I Can’t Finish a UFO?
It was well over a year ago when I started Rock Me on the Bias, which was chronicled in the post Motivation Lost and Found, but I finally finished it a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t get a chance to give it a proper photo shoot, though, because of Thanksgiving week and life happening.…
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WIP: Neapolitan
It’s been a while since I’ve shared any knitting updates on here, but I’ve been keeping busy in spite of the radio silence I’ve been dealing with for the last couple of months. So, as you may remember, I started a blanket that I’m calling “Neapolitan”, after its color scheme resembling Neapolitan ice cream. This…
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