Central Park Hoody

It’s done! Done! Done! So many others said, oh, it’s a quick knit. It goes so fast. And this thing just dragged on, and on. Maybe because I made the biggest size? Maybe because I made it oogles longer than the pattern called for? (cropped sweater = ick) Maybe because I picked up and knitted [...]

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Spring! Spring! Spring!

Blog? What blog. Write? Post pics? Huh? What? What time is it, anyway?
Way back on December 25 I was gifted Knitting Nature, and it is so, so delightful. I immediately had to crank this bad boy out.
Phyllotaxis! Or, Sunflower Tam. So fun! So kicky! So not quite big enough, but close enough! And [...]

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Meltage

Oh, look. The sun is shining in Buffalo (aka Dreamtown, USA), and the snow has melted, leaving us with a Huge Pile of Mud in lieu of a front lawn. Oh the joy. The rapture. Thank you, thank you, National Fuel, for digging up our lawn last December. Please, oh please, you’d better do a [...]

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Creatures

For those of us keeping score, this here is the mighty beginnings of the Creatures of the Reef shawl, from Fiddlesticks Knitting. Um, mightily begun probably Summer 2006. Seeings as how you begin by casting on 200 or 400 or maybe 360 stitches, the goings are mighty slow. Happily, decreases are worked alternating rows, so [...]

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Fatty Bobbin

Well, thanks to Nathan’s quick response (tweak the eye of the winder a bit), that bad boy is winding on so much more evenly, and I definitely think I’m getting my plying dollar’s worth. Now I have to consider getting more bobbins, because spinning one pound at a time of the same colorway makes for [...]

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