It’s Business Time**

It seems customary to document the first time you take a sharp pair of scissors to several months worth of knitting so I broke out the camera on Saturday for a steeking session.  Let it be known that because I was about to enjoy an afternoon of wine tasting and an evening of beer tasting [...]

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The end is near

I’m at that point in knitting Autumn Rose where I’m so close that it seems ridiculous not to just stay up late one night and finish, even though I know it would mean several long sleepless nights and missed days of work.  But when you start working both the neckline and raglan decreases at once, [...]

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The Halfway Point

I usually just think of the 15th of the month as payday, but in 2009, it’ll be NaKniSweMoDo-halfway-point-check-in-day.  So how am I doing?

Not too shabby, I’d say.  I’m a little more than halfway through the second sleeve and hoping I can knock out the rest tonight.  Then I’ll just have the shoulders and neck to [...]

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Texture and Tweed

A little something to break up the eleven-colors-in-fingering-weight insanity of Autumn Rose and feed the Rowan Yorkshire Tweed 4 Ply obsession.  A two-fer.

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NaKniSweMoDo Madness

My inspiration for joining the insanity that is NaKniSweMoDo was threefold:

1) When I moved to Seattle I had to buy two huge bins that fit under my bed to house my stash and one of those bins was devoted entirely to “whole garment quantity” lots of yarn. While it may not look like too [...]

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First FO of 2009

First off, please forgive the long absence.  It definitely did not take 3 months to move to Seattle!  My only excuse is that the winter light here is not terribly conducive to taking lovely WIP shots.  Nonetheless, I’m quite excited about 2009, and plan to post much more often.  This truly is the first year [...]

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