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  • 50mm | animals | craft | knitting | linkage | photography | thinking out loud

    No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of this Tank

    Bymichelle August 31, 2012August 1, 2022

      This week’s work was more stockinette for the front, all the way up to the neck shaping.  It knitted up much faster than the previous week, leaving me time…

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  • 50mm | garden | my home | photography | thinking out loud

    Unscheduled, Colorful, Climb-y, Lanky, Slightly Wild…

    Bymichelle August 28, 2012July 27, 2022

    My pictorial cure for the beginnings of a migraine at 11:47 with the first day of school looming: the unscheduled, colorful, climb-y, lanky, slightly wild things of summer.  (my flickr)

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  • 50mm | animals | craft | knitting | photography

    Holla Knits Knit Along

    Bymichelle August 25, 2012August 1, 2022

    This is my progress so far on the Holla Knits Knit Along, which I am fighting the urge to make into a “Knit Ahead.” Though I like to work on…

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  • 50mm | books | craft | knitting | linkage | photography | shows | thinking out loud

    Free Floating

    Bymichelle August 20, 2012August 1, 2022

    This is a pattern swatch for another knit along I’m starting today, lots of linkage, and other free floating thoughts. Feel free to ignore this post, altogether. I’ve decided to…

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  • beekeeping | cheap stuff | diy | iphoneographs | new to me | phoneography | photography

    Bees After All

    Bymichelle August 20, 2012August 1, 2022

    Along time ago, when I started this blog, I bought a beehive.  I put my supers together, painted them, bought an extractor, and waited for all of that raw honey….

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  • 50mm | knitting | new to me | photography

    Knit, Michelle, Knit Like the Wind…

    Bymichelle August 13, 2012August 1, 2022

    That’s what my husband says when I’m cramming to finish a project by Christmas or something.  This time it was The Ravellenics Games, and I made it by a few…

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  • 50mm | photography | thinking out loud

    Gray Day

    Bymichelle August 6, 2012August 1, 2022

    Gray weather is cocoon-like, a hothouse for the buried seeds of thought.   I’m always surprised when they start to grow inside me and fight their way out. Today I’m…

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  • craft | knitting | linkage | new to me | phoneography | thinking out loud

    I Hear Chariots of Fire

    Bymichelle July 31, 2012August 1, 2022

    Actually, I just hear the first few lines of Chariots of Fire… over … and … over again. I’m still on the toe of these toe-up, two at a time,…

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  • craft | knitting | new to me

    I’m Not the One Preparing for Campus…

    Bymichelle July 27, 2012August 1, 2022

    … that would be my daughter… but I’ll wear the jacket just the same. This is Campus Jacket from Amy Christoffers, who has some of the most wearable looking sweater patterns…

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  • cheap stuff | craft | knitting | new to me | phoneography

    Toggle Fail

    Bymichelle July 27, 2012August 1, 2022

    I tried to make toggles with leather loops for my Campus Jacket.  Amy Christoffers‘ were really cute, but it just didn’t work for me.  (See, Amy Christoffers’ photo tutorial on toggle…

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