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Year: 2013

50mm | cheap stuff | craft | family | knitting

Mini Christmas Boot Cuffs…

Bymichelle December 3, 2013August 2, 2022

… in case you want matching cuffs for the little people.  These are hasty photos of some more of Becca’s Cabled Boot Cuffs I made for relatives this Christmas.  The…

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50mm | cheap stuff | family | knitting | linkage | photography | thinking out loud

Christmas Boot Cuffs

Bymichelle November 27, 2013August 2, 2022

These Boot Cuffs, by Rebecca Gunderson, were the beginning of a Christmas knitting/ childhood movie marathon.  Obviously I changed my mind about knitting gifts this year. It’s all really subtle,…

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50mm | cheap stuff | knitting | linkage | photography | thinking out loud

Out of the Queue, Onto the Needles

Bymichelle November 21, 2013August 2, 2022

Every once in a while I tie up loose ends.  I finally finish that project I was collecting old plates for or knit that sweater whose pattern page was dog-eared…

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beekeeping | food | garden | homemaking | phoneography | photography

Lazy Beekeeping

Bymichelle November 19, 2013August 2, 2022

I haven’t been writing very much, but I have potential posts stacking up in my evernotes that need to be set free.  So this one is about our honey harvest…

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50mm | knitting | photography

Every Last, Little Scrap

Bymichelle November 12, 2013August 2, 2022

I did something today that I consider a very desperate, and slightly tacky, move.  I tied scraps, lots and lots of little yarn scraps and clipped yarn ends, together to…

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craft | knitting | linkage | shows

So Bernadette

Bymichelle November 4, 2013August 2, 2022

I’m so excited about the Big Bang Theory Knitalong hosted by Shannon of Luvinthemommyhood for all of us Big Bang Theory fans.  The timing was perfect since I’d just gotten…

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50mm | animals | knitting | linkage | phoneography | photography | shows

Sothern, So Far and the Big Bang

Bymichelle October 30, 2013August 2, 2022

In answer to my query about whether I have an unusually small head or everyone else knits more tightly than me, yes!  I do and they do.  Everyone.  Sothern has…

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50mm | knitting | parenting | photography

Elora Slouchy Toque

Bymichelle October 25, 2013August 2, 2022

Someone was in a good mood because they had no homework, so he indugled me by taking a few quick photos of me in my new hat. This hat is…

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

Elora, Dee, and Bernadette Meet Their Maker

Bymichelle October 21, 2013August 2, 2022

Sounds like another bad tv pilot, huh?  Actually it’s just a mash up of knitting project names and the fact that I’m the featured maker over on Kollabora’s Nora Meets the…

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iphoneographs | knitting | phoneography | photography

To Pick or Throw?

Bymichelle October 18, 2013August 2, 2022

100% wool makes me feel invincible.  I know this is looking a little puckered and is all squished up on a very short circular, but blur your eyes with me…

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