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Year: 2012

  • cheap stuff | craft | knitting | linkage | shows

    Black Swan

    Bymichelle November 27, 2012August 1, 2022

    I really needed this.   It’s Black Swan by Tara Shade and it was the thing that took my mind off of a holiday flu/ migraine bummer.  Big needles are like my grandmother’s…

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  • craft | knitting | new to me

    Clutch KAL, Week 1

    Bymichelle November 26, 2012August 1, 2022

    This is week 1 of the Scallop of the Sea Knitalong.  Have I said how much I love these colors together yet? (My son set aside Assassin’s Creed long enough…

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

    Why Do Sewing Needles Scare Me?

    Bymichelle November 21, 2012August 1, 2022

    Maybe it’s the cut-offs I tried to hem in high school; they ended up shorter in front than in back.  Or it may be the lining I sewed into this…

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  • 50mm | cheap stuff | diy | knitting | linkage | new to me | photography

    Recycling a Sweater

    Bymichelle November 21, 2012August 1, 2022

    Years ago, I read an article about recycling thrift store sweaters by Ashley Martineau.   I promptly went out and bought a rubbermaid tub full of thrift store sweaters to unravel.Two…

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  • 50mm | cheap stuff | knitting | linkage

    Two Accessories in the “Before” Stage

    Bymichelle November 13, 2012August 1, 2022

    I mentioned that I got stuff in my last post.  One of these giveaways was on Katie Canavan’s blog for enough yarn to knit her Scallop of the Sea clutch,…

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  • books | knitting | linkage | shows | thinking out loud

    Where’s my Stuff?

    Bymichelle November 13, 2012August 1, 2022

    Remember Melanie Hutsell’s “Where’s my stuff!?” bit on SNL? I don’t blame you if you skipped it, but it takes me back to my first election to ever participate in,…

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  • diy | homemaking | linkage

    Sofa Hack

    Bymichelle November 7, 2012May 16, 2023

    We needed a couch, one that could withstand growing people who flop rather than sit and a cat’s occasionally claw honing. I kept going back to this and this; only, I knew this…

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  • 50mm | knitting | linkage

    I’m Just a Knit Machine…

    Bymichelle October 24, 2012August 1, 2022

    … and I won’t knit for nobody but me.You know, like the song… Love Machine… anyway..  that’s me, lately, working for nobody but me. I am finally making Georgia by…

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  • 50mm | knitting | photography

    Finishing School

    Bymichelle October 23, 2012August 1, 2022

    Finishing School, by Katie Canavan, was full of finishing techniques, yet, somehow, really fun.  And I  truly hate finishing.  Finishing causes migraines and mood swings.  But everything was just clicking along…

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  • 50mm | knitting | linkage

    Miles to Knit Before I Sleep…

    Bymichelle October 19, 2012August 1, 2022

    … miles of stockinette, that is, to knit before I sleep.   The Roxborough Dolman, from Courtney Kelley, looks like a wardrobe staple.  It’s easy, mindless, stockinette that gives you…

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