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I am stubborn to a fault
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes I have a new yarn nemesis. We could have been friends, but I fear, due to my own waywardness, it is too late now. It all started so well, too . . . A bit ago, I entertained myself while my mother-in-law went to the…
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Well! Look who crawled out of the woodwork!
Well, well, well, if it isn’t December. However did we end up here and with so much still on the hook? And, you might ask, where the heck have I been for months? I would dearly like to tell you that I found a Door. I would like to tell…
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The September Project Joins the Pile
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Here we are! The first week of September. I managed to finish one project for the holidays already, so this month I plan to finish another. I was thinking it would be Adia’s shawl since that is so very close. See! Very close. I’m at…
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Weekly Update: One down, one frogged
Estimated reading time: Three minutes It’s been a week of project highs and lows. If you remember this project from last week, I have bad news. I really hope you weren’t waiting to see how that one turned out because it won’t be turning out at all. I got the…
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Why did I start a blanket in the middle of the holiday crochet block?
Reading time: 4 minutes We have finally received a cool, overcast, gloomy day. I cannot be more pleased. Bring on fall! Bring on the snow! Bring on short days and long, dark nights. I crochet with a vengeance as if enough stitches will bring down the rule of the sun.…
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Weekly Update: It’s holiday project list making time!
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes It is that wonderful time of the year when I make up my dream list of holiday gift giving projects. It’s months out, so I feel like I have lots of time to come up with a list of beautiful and complex things to make…
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Weekly update: The cowl (swatch) project
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes This week’s project is a cowl/swatch I’m making for Adia. I plan to make a sweater with this stitch pattern, but making the swatch was just miserable, so I grabbed a hank of the same yarn I am using for the sweater (Malabrigo sock) from…
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Weekly project update: The Sophie Digard knock-off
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes If you’ve read my posts about the movie Bright Star, you know I love the crochet in that movie. While everyone talks about that one sweater, there are others in the movie worth emulating. In fact, I like some of them better than that one…
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A shawl for Adia: the weekly update
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes And I’m back again! Aren’t you excited? Well, either way, you’ve navigated yourself back to my blog, so here we go! This week I have been working a lot on Adia’s marled, color-changing shawl. It’s a ¾ circle shawl worked in various colors of lace…
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F you said the blanket: An angry weekly update
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Another week of madness has passed in my country. I really, really hate living in interesting times. I cannot wait to be on the other side of this little historic interlude. (Please, please let it be a little historic interlude!) May the mid-term elections bring…
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