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Year: 2012

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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craft | knitting | linkage | new to me | phoneography | thinking out loud

I Hear Chariots of Fire

Bymichelle July 31, 2012August 1, 2022

Actually, I just hear the first few lines of Chariots of Fire… over … and … over again. I’m still on the toe of these toe-up, two at a time,…

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craft | knitting | new to me

I’m Not the One Preparing for Campus…

Bymichelle July 27, 2012August 1, 2022

… that would be my daughter… but I’ll wear the jacket just the same. This is Campus Jacket from Amy Christoffers, who has some of the most wearable looking sweater patterns…

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cheap stuff | craft | knitting | new to me | phoneography

Toggle Fail

Bymichelle July 27, 2012August 1, 2022

I tried to make toggles with leather loops for my Campus Jacket.  Amy Christoffers‘ were really cute, but it just didn’t work for me.  (See, Amy Christoffers’ photo tutorial on toggle…

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50mm | craft | knitting | linkage | photography

Summer Sweater, So Far…

Bymichelle July 11, 2012August 1, 2022

This is my Campus Jacket, a pattern by Amy Christoffers.  I’ve been wanting something toggled and tweedy for winter, and when I saw that Webs had just enough of one…

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50mm | linkage | music | photography | stuff | thinking out loud

Summer Music

Bymichelle July 6, 2012August 1, 2022

I wasn’t in too big a rush when buying The Idler Wheel… album. I learned from my mistake of buying the Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros‘ album Here as a download.  I was in…

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knitting | linkage

Pembroke Tank

Bymichelle July 5, 2012July 31, 2022

This is how I envisioned this tank looking when I knit it the first time– with thick and thin yarn in hand painted colors.  Basically as much like the sample…

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