Laying Plans

I like plans, I don’t always follow them, but I like making them – they make me feel organized, productive, and excited about all those things I’m going to do. I don’t like big event life plans – I find God tends to laugh at those and then tilt the universe so they become impracticable [...]

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Football Season Means FOs

I’m back (again) from an eventful trip to the greater Boston area (does that work for you guys? Sufficiently not Boston, but still helpful to those who don’t have a clue where Marlborough or Hudson are?) While there (and traveling there and back again) I finished reading an amazing book, Shock Troops by Tim Cook, [...]

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FO and Travel Plans

I have actually finished another project, yeah! Specs: Wrought Iron Pattern: Ironwrought Scarf Designer: Anna Dalvi Source: Ravelry store Yarn: Dye-version Silver (Merino, Silk, Nylon, and Sterling Silver), 100gr/421yds in the colourway Midnight Yardage: about 95% of the skein Needles: 4.5mm circs Cast-On: July 6.09 at knit night Bound Off: (in this case, grafted the [...]

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Shoes and Stash

Yesterday I had to go shopping, you know for the necessities that arise with the purchase of any new dress. Gold (and white) shoes for the wedding, which are both cute and comfortable And since I was in town I decided to check out the yarn store, I mean I have already been living here [...]

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Projects, Projects Everywhere

and, of course, the camera doesn’t work. I have started the second Oyster Bay Shawl, in Tickled Pink – which is a really really lovely pink. (Hey Lizzie, did you hear that, I like this pink!) I’m almost half way through the repeats of the main chart, so there is hope for finishing it in [...]

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Worse Than Yarn Stores

I found something worse than yarn stores, a place were wool fumes are stronger, a place credit cards mention only in a fearful hush, while looking over their shoulders. This place is Dye-Version‘s showroom. I think being so close to the source of amazing hand-dyed and hand-painted yarns should come with a warning.  (I think [...]

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Work In Progress

Pretty much everything I doing right now is a work in progress. There’s the scarf (for which I am not only working the chart upside down, I -being new to the whole double knitting thing- apparently did not finish the edges right and the only thing holding the edges together is the fact of the [...]

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On the fourth day of December

I had just cast off a pair of socks, and was casting on a hat. Specs: L’s Blue Jay Socks Pattern: Thelonious Designer: Cookie A Size: Large Yarn: Knit Pick’s Kettle Dyed Essentials Yardage: nearly 2 balls Needles: 2mm dpns Cast On: Nov. 24. 08 Bound Off: Dec. 3. 08 Notes: My biggest problem was [...]

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More Shopping

But first FO pics! Specs: BSJ of Many Colours Pattern: Baby Suprise Jacket Designer: EZ Size: um, small… Yarn: Araucania Ranco Multy Colourway: 314 Yardage: little more than half of the ball Needles: 3.75mm circs Cast On: Nov. 19.08 Bound Off: Nov. 21.08 Notes: As has been said before, just follow the instructions (and don’t [...]

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It was the wool fumes…

I swear! Well… actually, all things considered I did pretty darn well. Yes, I bought yarn. I was down on King West (like really far west… as in almost to Roncevalles west) and what do you do when you have hours to kill after a meeting at that end of town before you can catch [...]

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