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Year: 2017

craft | knitting | new to me | podcast | thinking out loud

So, I want to do a podcast…

Bymichelle December 9, 2017August 6, 2022

… and who doesn’t, at this point.  I wanted to do this a few years ago and even bought a bit of equipment that could double for photography and video…

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50mm | knitting | phoneography | thinking out loud

We Were Seeds

Bymichelle November 28, 2017August 6, 2022

This one was an engaging knit, guys.  We Were Seeds follows seeds, that is seed stitch, through germination- there’s lots of sprouting and climbing involved.   I’ve never knit a…

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family | parenting | thinking out loud

This Guy

Bymichelle November 17, 2017August 6, 2022

I’m just going to get right to the point.  I am about to be an empty nester.  Remember that awful sit-com in the eighties- Empty Nest?  Well, my son is…

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50mm | kal | knitting | linkage | phoneography | photography

Cumberland

Bymichelle October 31, 2017August 6, 2022

…And just before the deadline for the Brooklyn Knitfolk Hipster KAL, I finished my Cumberland.  I love it.  The end. You wish I was that brief.  No, I have to…

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50mm | iphoneographs | kal | parenting | photography | thinking out loud

Heritage

Bymichelle October 24, 2017August 6, 2022

Heritage, designed by Alina Schneider, is complete!  Stitches were ripped and compromises made, but I did it and the fit is perfect.  Like the other designs I have knitted from…

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animals | Christianity | phoneography | photography | thinking out loud

Redeemed

Bymichelle October 19, 2017August 6, 2022

This all started about a year ago.  Things were calming down in my life after a long spell of crisis.   My daily schedule was starting to look like a…

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kal | knitting | thinking out loud

Giant Sigh of Relief Project

Bymichelle October 17, 2017August 6, 2022

Cumberland is my palate cleanser between sweater projects for the Brooklyn Knitfolk Hipster KAL.  I realize I won’t finish both Heritage (below) and Feya before it ends, but the point…

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knitting | phoneography | photography | thinking out loud

Blog Plans vs Planned Obsolescence

Bymichelle October 6, 2017August 6, 2022

It doesn’t matter how we stagger our device purchases, they all seem to become outmoded for our needs at the exact same time, every one developing issues that can’t be…

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

Saguaro Blossom Hat

Bymichelle September 30, 2017August 6, 2022

The last hat I indulged in during the Any Hat KAL is the Saguaro Blossom Hat by Anne Podlesak.  I found this pattern in her Free Spirit Knits book, during an…

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50mm | knitting | phoneography | photography | thinking out loud

When your pom pom has a life of it’s own, you know it’s the correct size.

Bymichelle September 29, 2017August 6, 2022

Now, my regular blogging can begin.  Now, that all of the hurricane clean-up/ moving my daughter is finished.  Now that I have completed my first week as a BSF CL…

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