Lorna’s Laces

The Next Socks

February 3, 2012

All the years I’ve been knitting and I’ve mostly made plain, jane socks which are fine but now that I’ve started knitting patterned socks, I’m loving it but it’s so hard to decide which pattern to make next. When I do find a pattern I think I’d like to make, I go to Ravelry and [...]

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Socks #3, 2012

February 1, 2012

These were a pair that had been started probably back in the summer. Even though I’m seriously doing Denise’s challenge to make a new pattern each month, I am going to keep a plain Jane pair of socks on the needles. These are the ones I grab when we’re making a road trip or sitting [...]

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Sock #1 for 2012 Finished

January 2, 2012

Yes! It was finished on January 1. I know . . my stamp still says 2011. I make those things once a year and forget how to make them and it takes me an hour or more to figure it out. I did finally figure it out and I made them for 2013 too, but [...]

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Yarn Arrived at the Wrong Time

October 8, 2011

Something has to give with this mail situation. I do not like having the community bank of mail boxes . . mainly because I’ve already lost my key and the only way to get mail is for Vince to drive down there on his way home from work and get the mail. Then he sees [...]

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Yarn Panic

July 22, 2011

There’s no way I will run out of yarn . . not in 2011, not in 2015, not in this lifetime . . probably. But, there’s some amount of panic that set in when Vince and I had this conversation over the phone last week: Me: Honey, I think I’m going to need to order [...]

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Nightmare’s Night Out

July 12, 2011

How’s that for a title? Spooky, huh? That’s the name of the color of this yarn by Lorna’s Laces: That’s the yarn I’m going to use for the Olympic Copper socks. This isn’t my Project II project but something I’m taking with me to work on in TX. I think this yarn will be great [...]

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