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Blue Harvest Finished

Posted in knitting, projects, tagged , , on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I finished Blue Harvest in time to wear them on a cold foggy day and they are satisfyingly toasty warm.  Now I have a matching set of hat (Esme), scarf (Tudora) and mittens in the same yarn and all in Aran style; I think this is my first ever set to own.  Now if it [...]

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Tangled up in blue cables.

Posted in knitting, yarn store, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I was all set to post about starting Yellow Harvest Mittens (Ravelry link) from Vogue Knitting Fall 2008 while watching the presidential inauguration, and then the week got away from me, and now we have on hand, literally, one finished mitten. I’m using my stashed Manos del Uruguay in Cornflower, so I decided to [...]

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Cornflower Tudora Epilogue

Posted in knitting, tagged , , , , on January 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »

No sooner had I finished Tudora than I realized I didn’t quite like how it looked (perfectionism!), so I ripped out the seed stitch buttonhole band and got more creative.  According to the pattern, after knitting the bulk of Tudora, you add the buttonhole band just as you would for a cardigan by picking up [...]

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Cornflower Tudora

Posted in cats, knitting, tagged , , , , , on January 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »

My first finished object of the new year is Tudora.

I like Tudora’s design because it provides good neck coverage and doesn’t have long, scarf ends getting in the way when bending over.  Bending over may not seem like a big deal, but when you’re in a public bathroom helping your young child do what he [...]

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We’re very homey, these days.

Posted in cooking, knitting, other stuff, tagged , , , on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We’ve been feeling very homey and never made it off the front porch yesterday, so we made spritz cookies from the cookie cookbook of my childhood:  Betty Crocker’s Cooky Book, 1963 edition.  Feeling particularly festive, we frosted them with royal icing.

Next, I hope to make either World Peace Cookies, which I have Mariko to thank [...]

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Day 4: Cabin Fever

Posted in complaint department, knitting, other stuff, projects, tagged , , , , on December 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Today marks the fourth day I have not left the confines my neighborhood. I haven’t driven anywhere due to an icy uphill drive and icy roads—nay, I haven’t been in a car in four days—and now the third round of our winter storm has hit in the form of a blizzard. Next year [...]

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These days of cold….

Posted in knitting, tagged , , , , , , on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We don’t get out much these days between biting cold weather, occasional icy roads, school closures and snow.  We finally got our big snow storm early this morning and we did our sledding and made a snow angel.
We finally got a Christmas tree last weekend and we’re pretty much done decorating it.  Because it’s been [...]

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