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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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Celebration Sweater

September 23, 2011

Yes, we’re celebrating and it involves a house and that’s all I’m saying because we’ve all decided that mentioning it on the blog seems to motion the black clouds to move in and destroy our deal.  I believe every possible detail has been worked out and agreed upon but I know it’s not a done [...]

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Sweater Knitting

September 22, 2011

Just like I had a strong hankering to learn to knit socks, I now have a strong hankering to learn to knit sweaters. Last night, my friend Denise, who is an excellent quilter and knitter but she blew it totally when Elaine and I short sheeted her bed at quilting retreat and she crawled in [...]

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First Paraphernalia Finished

July 15, 2011

As soon as I began knitting this yarn, I realized even though it’s very close to a solid color, the cables weren’t going to show up as well as if it were a lighter color and a very solid.  It’s going to be the same thing with my Composition Book Gray Paraphernalia socks.  Next time [...]

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Paraphernalia

July 13, 2011

For my non-knitting quilting friends, I feel the need to apologize for the lack of quilting lately.  Please stick with me . . I will get back to quilting eventually. The Loopy Ewe’s Camp Loopy Project II starts on July 15.  We cannot cast on . . no matter how badly we want to do [...]

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Sock Yarn

July 1, 2011

Most of us are quilters, right?  When you first started quilting, and through the years, has your taste in fabric changed?  Mine have.  For years I’ve mostly used tone on tones but I notice myself migrating towards more solid and less pattern in those tone on tone fabrics. Similarly, with knitting, the more I knit, [...]

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