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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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Weekly Project Update: The shawl grows!
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes How is it almost June? Time is flying by at an amazing clip. I’ve been working on the shawl but am still reveling in finishing the doily. Never again with doilies for me. I cannot make another. Happily, the work on the shawl, which is…
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Weekly project update: A shawl worked with single-minded determination
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Another week that is simultaneously thirty days long and three hours long has whizzed or crawled past. I think my perception of time has been permanently changed. I am forever going to live in a world in which the month and day are best determined…
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Weekly project update: A finished doily, a blocked shawl, a different new shawl sneaking in
The Doily I finished it! It was a trial, but it is done, and I never need to work it on again ever. I even did a little border. Fancy, fancy. I started working it side to side. That was a fail. I felt like the letters weren’t as legible…
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Weekly Project Update: A finished shawl, a doily on the hook, another shawl creeps in
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes I did it! I finished Hannah’s periwinkle shawl. It’s blocking now and, if the gods of blocking and drying are with me, it will be dry and ready to gift to her for her birthday on Friday. It is done! The border was a menace,…
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Weekly project update: Coming to you from the 18th century
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes This week I have the distinct horror of coming to you from the depths of a massive power outage in my area. We were expecting the bad storms, but apparently they were really bad. The electric company does not have an estimate for when our…
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A Review of The Complete Book of Crochet Stitch Designs by Linda Schapper
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Let’s talk about The Complete Book of Crochet Stitch Designs by Linda P. Schapper. This book was first published in 1985 (when I was but 12 and only knew passingly of crochet) and was re-released with updates in 2007 (when I was much older and…
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