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

Fire Opal Tee

Bymichelle May 23, 2014August 3, 2022

Even with my new self-imposed bedtime, I still managed to finish one thing for both the Selfish Sweater KAL and the Tops, Tanks, and Tees KAL.  It’s the Fire Opal…

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50mm | knitting | linkage

Everett Henley

Bymichelle May 2, 2014August 3, 2022

This is one of the reasons why my blog has been so quiet lately.  It’s the Everett Henley by Emily Ringelman.  The other reason is that my life has been…

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50mm | camping | craft | doubleexposure | film | instax | knitting | photography | travel

Oh My Smokey Bear

Bymichelle April 15, 2014August 3, 2022

I wanted to meet a bear in the Smoky Mountains.  I’d be wearing my Smokey sweater and it would just be a big bear, and we could sense that we were…

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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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50mm | knitting | shows | thinking out loud

Eastwood Cardigan

Bymichelle February 28, 2014August 3, 2022

When I cast on for Eastwood, by Allyson Dykhuizen, I thought it would be a fun, striped knit in colors I love- sort of a no-brainer. I wasn’t very far…

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50mm | iphoneographs | knitting | phoneography

Lowlands Headwrap

Bymichelle February 14, 2014August 3, 2022

I pinned this head scarf, by Elisa McLaughlin, a couple of years ago because I thought it was different than other knit or crochet headband patterns I’d seen.  It didn’t tie,…

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50mm | knitting | photography

“4,8,15,16,23,42…”

Bymichelle February 13, 2014August 3, 2022

I buckled down and focused for a few evenings to get through the front panels on my Eastwood.    The tv was off, my book languished, and I mostly worked…

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50mm | film | instax | photography | thinking out loud

Analog Antrorse

Bymichelle February 11, 2014August 3, 2022

I don’t know why I held off getting an Instax for so long.  Probably because Urban Outfitters sold them.  But, I use Fuji film for my Polaroid 210 and love…

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