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Month: August 2014

50mm | knitting | linkage | photography

Ease

Bymichelle August 29, 2014August 3, 2022

That is just so me, in dress, at least.  The little girl in me who hates itchy seams, lace, and having her hair curled on Sunday mornings loves this sweater….

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family | iphoneographs | knitting | parenting | phoneography | photography | thinking out loud

Everything is Growing

Bymichelle August 27, 2014August 3, 2022

Everything is growing.  I get kind of sad about it when each school year begins.  I miss the intensity of mothering my children when they were small.  Nothing highlights the…

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iphoneographs | knitting | phoneography | photography

I Want to Dedicate This Sweater to My Dog

Bymichelle August 20, 2014August 3, 2022

I want to dedicate this sweater to my dog, Spotacus, for his constant companionship as I knit and his constant contribution to the amount of animal fiber included in this…

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50mm | cheap stuff | craft | crochet | knitting | linkage | new to me

County Fair Scarf

Bymichelle August 15, 2014August 3, 2022

I did it!  With minimal crochet skills a few days hiatus from sweater knitalongs, I completed my County Fair Scarf by Claire Denny.  Why did I put off making this…

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50mm | knitting | linkage

Riverine Pullover

Bymichelle August 14, 2014August 3, 2022

I’ve been neck deep in Summer KALs, but I do have a finished object!! It’s the Riverine Pullover, by Andi Satterlund, from Pom Pom Quarterly issue 5.   That’s the…

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50mm | books | iphoneographs | linkage | photography | thinking out loud

Ease in Elizabeth’s Style

Bymichelle August 8, 2014August 3, 2022

I took a break from reading Knitting Without Tears, for the Canary Knits Knitting Book Read-a-Long, until I put at least one thing I learned into practice.  That thing was learning to knit…

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Holla Knits Knit and Crochet-a-long

Bymichelle August 5, 2014August 3, 2022

Yep, there’s more “a-longs” happening around here.  Holla Knits is having a knit and crochet-a-long focused on the two special collections that have been released in the last two years….

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The Classic I Must Knit

Bymichelle August 1, 2014August 3, 2022

When Kristin of Voolenvine Yarns announced a knit-a-long devoted to all of those patterns that every knitter out there seems to have made but myself, I knew I had to…

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