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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 idea! I’m [...]

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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. [...]

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A Most Excellent Queen St Adventure

I was down on Queen St today.  I purposefully avoided the side of the street that Arton Beads is on (the south side) – only to get a better glimpse of the bead shops on the north side… but I didn’t go in.  I walked down to Romni (through the demolishion site aka. rubble removal [...]

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