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Month: December 2014

50mm | knitting | linkage | photography | shows

Knitting an Aviator Hat

Bymichelle December 30, 2014August 3, 2022

Because everyone needs a handmade aviator’s hat.  This is knit in Knit Picks Swish dk and Biggo that I won in a Holla Knits giveaway.  You can see the earflaps…

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

Aidez

Bymichelle December 28, 2014August 3, 2022

Here it is: Aidez by Cirilia Rose.  This is a really big moment in my knitting this year.  I’ve done complicated cables before, but never this complicated while so much…

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cheap stuff | craft | diy | family | homemaking | linkage | my home | phoneography | photography | thinking out loud

Oh Yeah, I Was Gonna Do a Christmas Post.

Bymichelle December 27, 2014August 3, 2022

Oops.  I hope you all had a great Christmas.  I’m going to get right to the point: I have conflicted feelings about Christmas.  As far as celebrating Christ’s birth, I…

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Foliage Cowl

Bymichelle December 26, 2014August 3, 2022

Here’s a quick peek at the Foliage Cowl I knit my mother in law before it gets wrapped.  This is one of those knits that is just so fun to…

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family | knitting | phoneography | thinking out loud

Crazy Time

Bymichelle December 23, 2014August 3, 2022

There are only two projects on my needles: a tv knit (Drift’s Ridge) and a cabled knit (Offshore V-Neck).  All is as it should be. A few weeks ago I…

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cheap stuff | iphoneographs | knitting

Gift Knitting is Finished

Bymichelle December 23, 2014August 3, 2022

This time it was different.  I didn’t have to knit these gifts, they were just little extras that I could do while watching movies with my family.  I didn’t wait…

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Kingsley, Twice

Bymichelle December 15, 2014August 3, 2022

Kingsley, by Andrea Mowry, was a welcomed break from cabling.  I keep saying that, don’t I?  I’ve interrupted Aidez a million times with my incessant string of hats.  I guess…

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Fancy Knitting

Bymichelle December 5, 2014August 3, 2022

I am back in the cabling groove, but I still need a project for all the times I multi-task knit.  Drift’s Ridge , by Teresa Gregorio, is that project.  Since…

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cheap stuff | knitting | phoneography | photography

More #peerpressureknitting

Bymichelle December 4, 2014August 3, 2022

It’s been a while since I talked about Aidez.  I’ve seen a few Ravelry friends start and finish theirs while mine languished in the knitting basket.  Seeing Kelley’s, finally made me…

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50mm | knitting

Bright and Shiny

Bymichelle December 2, 2014August 3, 2022

Is that not the best description for this rainbow hat, knit in this yarn?  The pom pom was the finishing touch.  I will never almost get hit by a car…

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