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    Winter/ Spring Instagram Dump

    Bymichelle April 9, 2014August 3, 2022

    Just space filling with Instagram. Birthday treats knitalong treats valentine’s treat making stuff riding my bike only not with yarn in it taking in our little bit of outdoors still…

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  • knitting | linkage | stuff | thinking out loud

    HashtagNoLifeKnitter

    Bymichelle April 7, 2014August 3, 2022

      This is what my son interrupted me with the other day.  We were at the dinner table and I was going to talk about something that I discovered while…

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  • iphoneographs | knitting | phoneography | thinking out loud

    One More Time, Folks!

    Bymichelle April 4, 2014August 3, 2022

    I was serious when I said I was going to start making clothing I can actually wear in the South.  (Sorry, this is just about knitwear, which I realize isn’t…

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

    Goof

    Bymichelle March 28, 2014August 3, 2022

    I have a tendency to hyper-focus.  There can be complete chaos around me, but in the safe bubble of my focus, there is only tranquil, methodical progress.  It’s how I…

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  • 50mm | cheap stuff | craft | knitting | new to me | thinking out loud

    Linden Mittens

    Bymichelle March 24, 2014August 3, 2022

    I finally did a thing that I always equated with little old ladies knitting when I was a child.  I made mittens.  They’re the Linden Mittens by Jane Richmond. I…

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  • 50mm | knitting | thinking out loud

    Purple

    Bymichelle March 21, 2014August 3, 2022

    Sometimes I’m just not feeling a color.  That’s the case with the Wool of the Andes super wash I chose for my Everett Henley.  I like it, it’s a great…

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  • 50mm | knitting | linkage | thinking out loud

    Sexxxy Librarian…

    Bymichelle March 20, 2014August 3, 2022

    … we don’t say dis (Sorry, it’s compulsive.)   This is my second knit for the Holla Knits KAL and it was really a change for me.  It’s fitted, cowl-necked,…

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    Mittens Two at a Time

    Bymichelle March 19, 2014August 3, 2022

    So, I’m past the thumbs on my Linden mittens, which is like the last lap, I think.  There’s a nice little stretch of mindless hand to knit before decreases.  It…

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    Cowl Neck

    Bymichelle March 15, 2014August 3, 2022

    I’ve never knit a cowl-neck or turtleneck sweater before.  Maybe because I remember my mother making me sweat out a fever in a mustard colored turtleneck under five blankets when…

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    Knitting and Smoke Break

    Bymichelle March 14, 2014August 3, 2022

    As if I wasn’t chin deep in knitalong projects, I decided to cast on for mittens knit two-at-a-time in the Linden KAL.  I saw a teaser for Jane Richmond‘s Linden…

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