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I’m doing the right thing. Why do I still feel so bad?
Yeah. It’s been that kind of day with all of my projects it seems. I realized yesterday that I had over knitted a rather large piece of knitting… by oh, 7 inches at least. It knitting terms this is...
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Today’s mistake is a “design feature”.
Yesterday I wrote about needing to rip out 7 inches of knitting, but today I’m keeping something in. I found a cable where I needed to swap the order of the stitches 4×4 but instead had done a little...
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Crafting vs. blogging? Crafting wins every time!
This has been a great day and a great week for crafting but maybe not so much for blogging. As I told a lovely friend I ran into during an evening school event, there are days when I have a half and...
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Cheerfully requesting your votes to help me win a knitting bag! Whoohoo!
No, I’m not kidding. Most folks know I don’t usually do this kind of thing. I actually decided not to after I did the first design, but I got 2 likes in the first half hour on Polyvore and thought,...
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One approach to deciding on a knit project…
Somewhere in my very first pound of spinning fiber I spun a lovely little 4 oz. of lime green, sock weight yarn. It was my first 3 ply yarn and I spun it with a “z” twist to see if I would notice a...
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Emergency knitting for puppy…
My new to me little darling Cricket spent most of the day yesterday at the vet’s office. It would seem that her, ah, new to the doggy scene owner mistakenly gave her unrestricted access to a rawhide...
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Using handspun…
I’m a new spinner. As such, the idea of using my hand spun for actual knitting or weaving is a bit daunting. I want things to look good and not scream “homemade”. Lumpy, bumpy hand spun… uummmmm....
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10 Minute Fingerless Mitts
Despite these beauties, my smugness is gone. I used to get all superior when either my dad, brother or husband said, “This is an easy (computer) problem to fix. It’ll take just a few minutes”. I’d...
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Catching up on some fiber arts (digging into the “UFO’s”)…
Knit UFO’s are unfinished objects. My goal this summer has been to clear some out either by making hard decisions or deconstructing them to begin anew. Solid color spun yarn. This had been sitting on...
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