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Nice, Low Intensity Knitting

Bymichelle October 9, 2014August 3, 2022

I think I deserved a little low intensity project after the last one.  This knit up in two days.  It’s the Petawawa Toque from Tara Lynn-Morrison of Good Night Day….

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

Foreverweight .. I mean, Featherweight Cardigan

Bymichelle September 26, 2014August 3, 2022

It took thousands of stitches in lace weight yarn, but it was worth it.  Listen to me, I’m being so dramatic.  A quick look at my Ravelry page shows me…

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50mm | knitting | linkage | photography

Ease

Bymichelle August 29, 2014August 3, 2022

That is just so me, in dress, at least.  The little girl in me who hates itchy seams, lace, and having her hair curled on Sunday mornings loves this sweater….

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50mm | cheap stuff | craft | crochet | knitting | linkage | new to me

County Fair Scarf

Bymichelle August 15, 2014August 3, 2022

I did it!  With minimal crochet skills a few days hiatus from sweater knitalongs, I completed my County Fair Scarf by Claire Denny.  Why did I put off making this…

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50mm | knitting | linkage

Riverine Pullover

Bymichelle August 14, 2014August 3, 2022

I’ve been neck deep in Summer KALs, but I do have a finished object!! It’s the Riverine Pullover, by Andi Satterlund, from Pom Pom Quarterly issue 5.   That’s the…

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50mm | books | iphoneographs | linkage | photography | thinking out loud

Ease in Elizabeth’s Style

Bymichelle August 8, 2014August 3, 2022

I took a break from reading Knitting Without Tears, for the Canary Knits Knitting Book Read-a-Long, until I put at least one thing I learned into practice.  That thing was learning to knit…

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50mm | knitting | linkage | thinking out loud

The Classic I Must Knit

Bymichelle August 1, 2014August 3, 2022

When Kristin of Voolenvine Yarns announced a knit-a-long devoted to all of those patterns that every knitter out there seems to have made but myself, I knew I had to…

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50mm | freelensing | garden | my home | new to me

Freelensing on my Front Porch

Bymichelle July 25, 2014August 3, 2022

(more on my flickr)

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

The Continental and -1 Needles

Bymichelle July 25, 2014August 3, 2022

I’ve now read through the first three sweater recipes in Knitting Without Tears by Elizabeth Zimmerman for the Canary Knits Knitting Book Read-a-long.  Unlike the first time I read this book,  I totally…

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

Now that I’m famous…

Bymichelle July 17, 2014August 3, 2022

Did you see it!?!  For a few beautiful days I was the center of the universe… the knitting universe of Ravelry that is.  Well, the Oud Tank I knit was,…

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