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05 June 2009

Summer to Summer Knitting Count, June 2009

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Summer to Summer Knitting Count Four pairs of socks * Aunt Blue Socks * Mystery Socks * Spring Striped Socks * Pomatomus ...
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Half a year in, and this is the first pair of socks ?!?

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Done. Socks for a second aunt who very gracefully asked if I might have time Some Time to knit her a pair of socks. Not a problem. Lorna...
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03 June 2009

A Delayed Montego Bay Posting

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Montego Bay scarf is Amy Singer's pattern, published in Interweave Knits. Handmaiden Sea Silk was a gift from adriennec . I really enjo...
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18 May 2009

Fail better

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Some long time ago glittrgirl or skitten posted a favored and favorite quote from Samuel Beckett, playwright and novelist. As I am an avow...
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17 May 2009

Lessons From Failure

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1. If you really think you might not have enough yarn, you might be right. 2. If you swatch, you can risk believing your swatch. 3. Save th...
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16 May 2009

Not Afraid to Fail

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I've cast on twice for Brigitta . I'm using some indulgent yarn from The Fibre Company - Pemaquid - I picked up from a sale basket....
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11 May 2009

Done. Now what?

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Baby Blanket - Anna Bell's Old Shale Baby Blanket (An old standard, but she wrote up the proportions so I didn't have to think too ...
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24 April 2009

Kicking up some serious dust

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Absent chez blog, frenzied in the work house..... Finished the last phase of a MAJOR work project this week. We're in production now. ...
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09 April 2009

Socks

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One of the yarns in the middle of yesterday's post is Lorna's Laces sock yarn in Blue Jeans. I'm back to having a pair of socks...
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08 April 2009

Elizabeth Said Use Pictures

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Elizabeth said she saves pictures for occasions where blog life needs a little poke. I've been too long away. Can't and shouldn...
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25 March 2009

How'd this happen?

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I have very little on the needles. I'm making Anna Bell's Old Shale Baby Blanket for a gift. This is an active project. I've mo...
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24 March 2009

Laws of averages

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This will be much like bringing an umbrella when it doesn't rain and forgetting the umbrella to find it pours. Odds are good, you know,...
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20 March 2009

At last, I can attach the fringe!

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The knitting has been done for awhile. I just needed a break so I could do the fringe and not worry about the interruptions that come scree...
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16 March 2009

I really need a spring break.

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4 more days.... I'm definitely counting down the days until break. Definitely need the break FROM. Definitely looking forward for the b...
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13 March 2009

This Photo Shoot is So Over

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Even if the sewing isn't done, thought I'd catch a photo. Otherwise, I'll get them sewn and packaged and sent and once again, o...
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11 March 2009

Cold Proof

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Proof there is knitting: Today's March IS cold enough for a hat. Maybe I can get this hat done soon enough to send it to the cousin who...
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09 March 2009

Signs of Spring

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Clocks sprung ahead, with much cursing. Heavy rains cleaned my car, but the puddles and the potholes? Spare me having to use the spare, ple...
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02 March 2009

Helpful Kitchen Tip - OR - A Tale of Two Egg Cartons

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Good eggs sink in cold tap water. Bad eggs float in cold tap water. Eggs from one carton were good. Eggs from another carton were bad. Guess...
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17 February 2009

How to Schedule a Knitting Break

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I googled the How-To language above on an impulse that might better have been used doing something else. Not surprisingly, there are blog or...
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28 January 2009

The sun is shining, and I have a cup of coffee.

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Hope your morning is as kind. It is fair to say that I often measure the quality of time by how productive it was. While I'm happy to s...
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