coming around again…

I haven’t written a real post in ages.  I also haven’t been knitting lately.  I started the sleeves of a Chic Knits cardigan (it’s been so long that I don’t even remember the name of the pattern) in, I think, February (?) and haven’t picked them up since.  I used to go into the room [...]

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pooling. and not the swimmy kind.

Socks that Rock Lightweight in Little Bunny Foo Foo.   I do not like the pooling that occurs with STR.  I won’t be using STR for socks anymore unless someone can tell me:
1.  a colorway in which this does not happen
2.  how to knit socks with STR in a special, magical way that stops this from [...]

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knitting – i’m back

I started knitting again this weekend and it took the form of Spring Forward socks from Knitty Summer 2008.  I’m using Koigu KPPPM in a beautiful colorway that doesn’t photograph well without really great lighting.  After spending money on two sets of dpns from Knit Picks, I’ve finally realized that I hate knitting with dpns.  [...]

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there and back again

I have been in Arizona for the past three and a half weeks.  You may know from my previously published posts.  I brought way too much of my life with me, thinking that I would just resume what I had started here at home while in Arizona.  But as it turns out, I didn’t feel [...]

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lace weight yarn

I spent the day yesterday casting on 996 stitches for this project, with Lorna’s Laces Helen’s Lace in Chocolate.  What a nightmare.  I used stitch markers, counted and recounted only to have different number of stitches on my needle each time.  Rip!
So then today, after ripping the above listed project, I started this project, which [...]

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