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I’ve made it to my favorite part of a seamless raglan sweater - the giant row of doom!
Hello, bad-dye job.
Usually, I knit both sleeves first, so when I get to this point at the body, both sleeves are already ready to go. I don’t know why I veered away from that this time. [...]
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I quilt. I haven’t done it in what feels like years though (other than a few commissioned pillows along the way).
But I’ve been playing with fabric and layouts for what will be Lindsey & Ben’s wedding quilt/chuppah. It’s going to be 60″ x 60,” which I read is the traditional size for a [...]
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That blue blob of yarn is a big ball of Blue Sky Alpaca Dyed Cotton that I decided I wanted to roll into a ball from a hank on my commute Sunday morning. It got tangled and knotted (of course) and instead of taking the normal ten minutes it would have taken at home, [...]
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I’ve avoided signing up for the plethora of secret pal swaps that float around the knitting blog world for a few years - I did Secret Pal 2? 3? three years ago, and I got burned. I did have a Secret Pal Angel come in towards the end, but it always left a bad [...]
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Boat.
Dunes.
Wet, sandy feet.
Ocean was too fast for me.
Emerald sleeve in progress.
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I went to Boston last weekend for my best friend’s engagement party. I got to visit with my favorite cat:
Who was pretending not to know who I was.
There were cheese plates
And purple cauliflower
And I don’t have any pictures of the actual party because I’m [...]
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I’m sorry that all I talk about in this blog is Paton’s Soy Wool Stripes. But I haven’t been knitting very much lately - partly because Dan’s sweater is all seed stitch sleeves all the time and partly because I’ve been reading.
This is what it looks like. Sad [...]
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but look!
New SWS colors! Woohoo! Pretty! I want them all. I’m going to have to start stalking the yarn section of my local craft store tomorrow.
I think it would be awesome to try over-dying the Natural Slate - ’cause of the graduations of greys as the base, I wonder if I could [...]
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