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It was a good year for Malabrigo.
Pattern: Worsted Weight Foliage by Emilee, from Fall ‘07 Knitty
Yarn: Lovely soft and squishy Malabrigo Worsted in Autumn Forest (aprox 100 yards or a little more than 1/2 a skein)
Needles: US8s & US7s (I knit the crown on US7s, but couldn’t find my circs in that size, so I [...]
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And it’s cloudy out and the sunshine is doing something funny.
And this is what happens to a beautifully cabled pullover.
Weird, huh? I feel like my camera’s messing with me.
Cabled close-up.
Anyway, the pullover is coming along remarkably well. A few nights ago, I cast on the underarm [...]
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On my last day in Chicago, I had some non-training time, so I went out to find yarn.
I visited Loopy Yarns. They had a really great selection - not only a wide array of yarns, but plenty of colors and fibers and textures, too. They had the new Manos Silk/Wool Blend, and I [...]
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I did.
I tried to keep it simple, and didn’t knit for that many people.
One of the gifts has not been given yet, so it shall remain a mystery for the time being.
The Holiday Gift pile at my parents!
My major project was the sweater vest for my stepfather. I did most of the knitting and [...]
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Be warned: there is no knitting in this post!
Dan and I decided to make homemade coffee liqueur (like Kahlua or Tia Maria) for holiday presents this year. An assortment of our friends and family will be receiving these bottles. I’m really impressed with how the liqueur came out - the coffee really mellowed [...]
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Bad news: New Jersey is closed. Well, actually, the North East is closed. They don’t want me anymore. All flights from Chicago to the NYC area were cancelled today. So I’m in Chicago for another night.
Good news: I went from a room on the fourth floor to a room on the [...]
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I had my traveling project all ready to go: Amy Swenson’s Charisma Cable sweater, knit in good old 4-ply worsted weight wool I got at Rhinebeck at the Little Barn, $35 for a bag of ten (woohoo!). I knit the saddles waiting for the plane, and joined for the first panel waiting on the [...]
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The Winter Knitty is up, as you probably know. At first glance, I didn’t love it. I really enjoyed the fall issue (Foliage! Juno Regina! Oblique! Cherie Amour! Entwined! to name a few). Five pairs of socks? Really? Two empire waist sweaters? Really?
I try to be positive about the [...]
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Sunday was wonderful. I had a pile of movies to watch, it was snowy and cold out, and I had some good watching-movies-under-blankets-while-it-is-cold-and-snowy-outside-lazy-Sunday knitting.
And I finished the body of the vest!
And I seamed it!
And I picked up and knit the arm-hole edging!
[Well, I seamed [...]
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