Call Me Kate the Great

With mom away I get to run the house. This morning by 10AM, I had planned the menu for the week, sorted all the laundry, tidied up the freezer, and was at the grocery store (note to self – it opens at 8AM could have saved time if I’d known that). By 1ish… I had: [...]

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There is too much, let me sum up

1. Spent last week (last Saturday to today) at a cottage up in the Muskokas.  The cottage was lovely, the lake was lovely, but I am so incredibly not a lake person.  Give me a swimming pool (heated) (not to mention my internet address- I will never catch up) and keep the bugs.  I did, [...]

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300 yards

I’ve finished spinning and plying the purple!  Specs: 2ply laceweigh-c.30 wpi approx. 300yds (yeah, figured out how to work the niddy noddy) merino I bet the zoom in really close feature is turned off… I’ll have to check that next time… I’m now trying to figure out if I can get a shawl out of [...]

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Oh. My. Gosh. SQUEE!!

Look! Look! Look! Look! It’s so fine, the camera won’t focus!! I made lace – not like before where my singles were lace (like this): Lovely, but infuriatingly fingering weight when plied. But really real lace, lace where when I ply it it will absolutely be lace, not light fingering, but lace lace!! YEAH!!!! I [...]

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