Category: Project updates
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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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A new quest!
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Do you play video games? I used to. I enjoyed the strategy type best. Sometimes, in the middle of play, one of my choices would cause a shift in the game and my original quest would change. I suddenly had to rethink everything I had…
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What I’m watching with crochet in it and a shawl update
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Happy Thursday everyone! Dave and I are celebrating our 26th wedding anniversary today, so it’s a doubly happy Thursday for me. I am overjoyed to say that the wrap is now nearly as tall as I am. I may have it done in time for…
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