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  • Image of the I-Cord neckline detail of my Heritage sweater.
    knitting

    Heritage

    Bymichelle October 24, 2017July 27, 2023

    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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  • Image of my big galoot dog trying to fit sideways in our rocking chair.
    family | homemaking

    Redeemed

    Bymichelle October 19, 2017July 27, 2023

    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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  • Image of two precious skeins of Gynx Yarns I am about to use to create the Cumberland Shawl.
    knitting

    Giant Sigh of Relief Project

    Bymichelle October 17, 2017July 27, 2023

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

    A Long Journey, Literally

    Bymichelle September 12, 2017August 6, 2022

    Something…something got finished for the Summer Sweater Knit-Along through all of this vacation, then hurricane, craziness.  I didn’t think it would happen when I had to frog my Heritage, but…

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  • kal | knitting | linkage | phoneography | photography

    When knitting is your comfort, and I interviewed Alina Schneider

    Bymichelle August 28, 2017August 6, 2022

    Since we are hunkered down at home, awaiting more rains from Hurricane Harvey, I have gotten quite a bit of knitting done.  (We are fine.  We may get a bit…

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  • craft | knitting | linkage | new to me | photography | travel

    Gingerbread Sweater aka Like Wearing Kittens, if That Were a Good Thing

    Bymichelle August 25, 2017August 6, 2022

    I had high hopes of taking interesting photos of this sweater while on hiking vacation in The Grand Tetons.  But just because I am surrounded by landscape that’s beautiful, it…

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

    Gathered Around Me

    Bymichelle August 17, 2017August 6, 2022

    I’m still working on my Marley shawl, but my Gather, another Andrea Mowry design, is now complete.  It isn’t easy to stand outside in a wool/ linen shawl right now.  It’s not…

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