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

The Orri Shawl

Bymichelle August 11, 2017August 6, 2022

I am fresh from family vacation, where I had no connection with the outside world for about 2 weeks.   It wasn’t the kind of vacation that’s all about relaxing….

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50mm | family | kal | linkage | phoneography | photography | places | thinking out loud

Waterrock

Bymichelle June 2, 2017August 6, 2022

Let me start by saying these photos are kind of the pits.  Ocean spray, as in the ferry- not the juice, got on my lens and it wouldn’t cooperate the…

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Kinton Tee

Bymichelle May 30, 2017August 6, 2022

My daughter and I took a little day trip to Galveston as, sort of, an in-case-you-move-soon thing.  I didn’t want the summer to get away from us and miss an…

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Baby Granny Stripe Blanket

Bymichelle March 29, 2017August 6, 2022

I guess I can post this blanket now that it’s been gifted and the recipient has been born.  It made me so happy to think of the loving home she…

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

Feyre

Bymichelle March 22, 2017August 6, 2022

I could knit Feyre again.  And again.  It was that satisfying.  I was imitating the sample, knit in Brooklyn Tweed’s Newsprint.  I think the Patons Classic Aran and Dark Grey Marl…

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Julia Sweater

Bymichelle March 21, 2017August 6, 2022

I don’t know what happened.  I slipped this big sweater over my head and next thing I knew it was like the last 26 years were a dream.  What?  I’m…

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