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Spinning Color
I’m sitting at my computer in the semi-dark middle of the day, with the rain pelting my house and the wind alternating between whipping around like a wild thing and falling eerily silent. The lights and heating are on at … Continue reading
Cool Summer Knitting
There are only a few rules for summertime knitting: it needs to be portable and it needs to not make your hands sweat. Preferably, it should also be quick and easy. Because keeping up with a complicated pattern while also … Continue reading
Minarets and Lace
About a month ago I teased you with photos of a lovely lace shawl on the needles, but never showed you the finished shawl. Well, wait no longer. This is the Minarets and Lace shawl by Mary-Anne Mace. I knit … Continue reading
Randomly on a Thursday
I hear that summer is in full swing in most parts of the northern hemisphere. We got a few weeks of summer-like weather, then it turned spring-like again. That’s not stopping us from going outside though. (More on that in … Continue reading
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Hopping
Ever have one of those spots of time where it just seems to jump forward? I have no idea what happened to the last several weeks. I was there, I did work, I did the normal non-work things, I slept … Continue reading
Restarting
Last week I hinted that I was ripping out and restarting a project. No, it’s not the skirt project. That one went into the frog pond so I could ponder how best to proceed. Instead, I resurrected a different project … Continue reading
No Time To Talk
Have you ever encountered one of those weeks, where everything sort of piles on itself and there is no time to catch a breath? I know you have. Everybody has. Well, that’s what happened to the last several weeks. Mom … Continue reading
A Study In Blues
It seems that I’m in a mood to work with the color blue lately. There was the cabled pools shawl that I showed you a few weeks ago. And the experimental spinning project – though I really expected that to … Continue reading
Cabled Pools Shawl
I must have brought the sun back with me from vacation. It has been sunny and warm so many days in the last few weeks that we’re beginning to think summer has arrived early. We know that can’t be true … Continue reading
Handspun Sweater: Finished
Remember that deadline I set myself to finish the handspun sweater before Son’s Spring Break started? Well, I met it. Though I will admit that the sweater was still a bit damp when I packed it into the suitcase to … Continue reading