Too Much To Explain, Let Me Sum Up

I’ve been a busy beaver on the knitting front (and have also not neglected the zombie… wonder of wonders).
I’ve got another four FOs to add to the list (or check off the list depending on how you look at it…)
Specs: Christmas Mittens 09 – The Revenge

Pattern: Herringbone Mittens with Poms
Designer: Elli Stubenrauch
Source: Ravelry download
Yarn: Briggs [...]

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The hits just keep coming

or what you can accomplish during Star Trek marathons…
FO: Mom’s Christmas Mittens

Pattern: not really a particular pattern, used a combination of sources on mittens in general and thrummed mittens
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden
Yardage: about 1.5 skeins (well, 2 with nearly half a skein total weight left over…)
Thrums: Briggs & Little Country Roving in natural/white (I used [...]

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Productivity

All things considered this has been a productive few days. I’m making progress on the zombie, from which I am taking a break to blog. And there have been FOs and progress on WIPs. And I got my library card, New Brunswick has a fully integrated province wide library system… what a fantastic [...]

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Pre-Season FOs

It is currently pre-season… for football (yeah!!), for Christmas knitting, for school here (which starts next Tuesday), and fall, which appears to have asserted itself this week; and FOs are piling up, which is never a bad thing. This weekend I finished S.’s hood, a BSJ, and the first of 8 thrummed mittens for Christmas.
Specs: [...]

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Socks: the Perfect Gift

umm… that can’t be right. Aren’t socks the disappointment of every child’s Christmas stocking, ranking right up there with underware and a new tooth-brush?
Well, maybe … or maybe just white tube socks…
But apparently that isn’t stopping me. I give you 1 (and a half) pairs of gifts socks and plans for others.
Lindz’s Birthday Socks – [...]

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