Category: Creative process
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Sudden afghan project finished!
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Well, aside from the ends, which are still unwoven as I write this, I did finish this project in a week. It surprises me a bit because I always think that bigger yarns go faster, but not ridiculously faster. In fact, they do go ridiculously…
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The sudden afghan project
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes It got very cold and snowy here very suddenly. Despite all of the projects I have on hook, I got it into my head that I should throw all of those to the side for a bit and make an afghan. Why? Because it’s cold…
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Very slow crochet
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes In the interest of pulling things off the UFO pile, I have been working on this shawl for Hannah. I’m making it with a 2.5 mm hook and Malabrigo silkpaca lace weight yarn. My goal was to create a thin shawl with intricate little stitches…
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An Autumn inspired capelet
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes I love autumn. I like the smell of the air as the cold weather moves in. I love the shortening days and the time spent with the gentle light of the moon instead of the harsher light of the sun. I appreciate the way the…
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Triangles are their wily ways
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Geometry was not a good subject for me in high school. It was going alright until the poor teacher went and had a heart attack, so the class ended up with a substitute who was more interested in letting the guys in our class know…
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A big pile of UFOs
Estimated reading time: 15 minutes. Go make some tea. Do you have a lot of UFOs? It’s surprising how a project that starts well can be derailed by life and end up sitting in a bag waiting for the sun to shine on it again. I am almost finished with…
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Bright Star and its teasing crochet, part 2
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes (more if you get lost down a rabbit-hole of Sophie Digard’s work partway through reading) Disclaimer: I know that crochet in the Regency period did not really look like what we see in the movie Bright Star. There are lots of people out there talking…
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End weaving continues
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes First, a warning. The Shingrix vaccine is serious business. I want to believe I would be much farther (Side note: I like the word farther. I think it is underused. I’m going to use it here even though it seems to be a bit contested…
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The edges take shape
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes I have finished the main body of the wrap! For a minute, I thought the end points were going to be different, but no. I did it correctly. I am so very pleased with it and myself. The majesty of the unwoven ends is a…
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No more frogging, but the ends are piling up
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes I am over halfway done with this project! It turned out the last attempt is the final form for this wrap, and I am quite happy to have hit upon it and overjoyed with how it is going. Behold the number of ends I have…
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