Hmmmn…let me see*

I’ve been up to a bit since my last post. I finally made it to a Sit ‘n’ Knit event, Photographing Your Knitting, with Jared Flood b.k.a. B r o o k l y n t w e e d. It was fantastic! Very informative. Jared is cool and down to earth. He made the [...]

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Self Discipline-

 correction or regulation of oneself for the sake of improvement

I lack self discipline. I’ve always know this about myself. I’m trying to do something about it. Really. What I’ve been trying to figure out lately is, how can I possibly fit it all in? This post over at Spindelicious Handspun touched on a subject I often find myself contemplating. Where [...]

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Baby knits

I think finishing my Ravelympics events so rapidly made me lose my mojo. I wound yarn into balls, matched it to one pattern and another and then…nothing. So I decided to knit that baby sweater that I needed and made all of this progress:

and I’m not sure that I like it. The neck seems to [...]

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My kind of athleticism

I have the lest hand-eye-foot coordination of anyone that I know. Seriously, I can’t even dance. But I can knit. So the Ravelympics is my kind of athletic event!

I’ll be reppin’ for Team Brooklyn and Team Twilight. I have set myself a personal challenge to knit as many hats, cowls and toys as I can [...]

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3 in 4

Knitting on the Lauri dress was beginning to take a toll on my hands. The combination of the small slippery needles and the smoothness of KP Shine Sport made for a wrist destroying combo.
So to take a break I read some books. Three in the last four days to be exact. I took a day [...]

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Wooed by its lushness

I knit this in about a week. I made a lot of mods so I wouldn’t run out of yarn, the pattern asks for 765 yards, I had 660. I may have overdone it though as I have nearly an entire skein left. Now I wish I had used the leftover Debbie Bliss from the almost [...]

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