Ode to Joyette

Here I am again, returned for a time from that mysterious world where blogging doesn’t occur called Life. I have a few finished objects to report on, but one step at a time. Most recently off the needles is Joyette and, as it’s name suggests, it was a joy to knit. I needed a small [...]

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Time flies…

Tomorrow’s my birthday, and I have accepted that I can no longer fool myself into thinking I’m still 25.  It just took me a good portion of my life to come to that realization.  Tonight I got a call from an old friend in Minnesota to wish me an happy birthday, and neither of us [...]

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I’m ready.

I’ve done pretty well this Christmas in keeping my eye on things and staying on top of deadlines.  Well, at least better than previous years.  After all, I had all the gifts wrapped before midnight this time and I have actually prepped some of the dishes before Christmas Day.  And I actually finished my mother’s [...]

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Make it big.

On one of my expeditions into the deep, dark jungle of my stash, I came across a skein of Tahki Baby Print.  Hmm, what’s this I have? I don’t remember this. Three skeins? Wow, that much, eh?  And then, having other projects on priority, I’d put it back, and forget about it until the next [...]

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It came from the black lagoon…

No, actually, the yarn is Zephyr Wool-Silk 2/18 in black and it came from the deep dark reaches of the bottom of my stash. A couple of weeks ago, there I was, happily knitting Rose Diamonds when my thoughts kept returning to the Abrazo I’d made for my mother and gave her for the trip [...]

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Mom Loves Hugs

I finished Abrazo (Spanish for hug) at the eleventh-hour and was able to give it to my mother when I took her to the airport this morning.  At this writing, it is with her somewhere over England on the flight to Turkey.  She was delighted, and she gasped when she saw it, which I found [...]

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Progress…

Abrazo is suddenly coming along nicely and I’m on the home stretch.  Of course, part of my progress was helped by the fact that I stubbed my toe so hard on Wednesday that I seriously thought I broke it, and spent that afternoon and evening with the foot elevated, so I made use of the [...]

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Scarfed that one down!

I started and finished One Row Lace Scarf by Turvid lightening-fast and, really, it’s not too surprising because it’s definitely one of those quick and easy projects, especially when using DK-weight yarn vs. the fingering-weight called for in the pattern. This was one of those plain and simple stash-busting projects to utilize the one skein [...]

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That’s Much Better

It’s been almost a month since I last posted anything and I thought I’d check in and say something.  I didn’t go anywhere; I just didn’t post.  Maybe I’m following the growing trend to not blog so much.  Hard to say.  I would love to say that my absence from blogging was due to competing [...]

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From here to there.

So, no sooner had I finished Andrea’s Shawl (which I keep calling Amanda’s Shawl, for some reason), than I decided it would be frogged.  Within 24 hours after posting about it and, utilizing the leftover mink yarn I had on hand, I began a new one, Andrea’s Shawl Redux.  I’d figured that rather than out-and-out [...]

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