Christmas wrap-up

It snowed yesterday right when our guests arrived for the big Christmas celebration, and that’s really something around here, because anyone who’s paid their dues in the Pacific Northwest will tell you how many times they’ve heard as a kid that it might snow on Christmas Day, only to be greatly let down by a [...]

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Cabled Coat

My newest project is Norah Gaughan’s Cabled Coat from Vogue Knitting’s Fall 2007 issue.

With the lack of decent daylight these days, this picture is the best I can give you to show the 25″ or so of moss stitch I’ve completed so far using Knit Picks Wool of the Andes yarn in Winter Night. [...]

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Done: Twist & Lace

Twist & Lace is finally done. It became a bit tedious to make; all those short rows….all those short rows! It took so long to make this scarf, for within every set of 10 rows are 4 short rows, and out of every set of 10 rows, only two rows added to the [...]

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First snowfall.

When the forecast says snow it’s usually a safe bet that it won’t snow, and if it does snow, that it won’t be around long enough to enjoy, but we were treated to a beautiful light snowfall this morning and I couldn’t resist taking some pictures.

Thinking that that was all we were going to see [...]

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