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Month: August 2012

50mm | animals | craft | knitting | linkage | photography | thinking out loud

No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of this Tank

Bymichelle August 31, 2012August 1, 2022

  This week’s work was more stockinette for the front, all the way up to the neck shaping.  It knitted up much faster than the previous week, leaving me time…

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50mm | garden | my home | photography | thinking out loud

Unscheduled, Colorful, Climb-y, Lanky, Slightly Wild…

Bymichelle August 28, 2012July 27, 2022

My pictorial cure for the beginnings of a migraine at 11:47 with the first day of school looming: the unscheduled, colorful, climb-y, lanky, slightly wild things of summer.  (my flickr)

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50mm | animals | craft | knitting | photography

Holla Knits Knit Along

Bymichelle August 25, 2012August 1, 2022

This is my progress so far on the Holla Knits Knit Along, which I am fighting the urge to make into a “Knit Ahead.” Though I like to work on…

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50mm | books | craft | knitting | linkage | photography | shows | thinking out loud

Free Floating

Bymichelle August 20, 2012August 1, 2022

This is a pattern swatch for another knit along I’m starting today, lots of linkage, and other free floating thoughts. Feel free to ignore this post, altogether. I’ve decided to…

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beekeeping | cheap stuff | diy | iphoneographs | new to me | phoneography | photography

Bees After All

Bymichelle August 20, 2012August 1, 2022

Along time ago, when I started this blog, I bought a beehive.  I put my supers together, painted them, bought an extractor, and waited for all of that raw honey….

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50mm | knitting | new to me | photography

Knit, Michelle, Knit Like the Wind…

Bymichelle August 13, 2012August 1, 2022

That’s what my husband says when I’m cramming to finish a project by Christmas or something.  This time it was The Ravellenics Games, and I made it by a few…

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50mm | photography | thinking out loud

Gray Day

Bymichelle August 6, 2012August 1, 2022

Gray weather is cocoon-like, a hothouse for the buried seeds of thought.   I’m always surprised when they start to grow inside me and fight their way out. Today I’m…

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