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50mm | animals | craft | knitting | photography

A Little Progress

Bymichelle September 7, 2012August 1, 2022

I’m fighting the urge to re-knit this knit along tank a size larger.  I know stockinette curls under and that I’ll be adding edging and a band to the bottom,…

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

My Back- to – School Supplies

Bymichelle September 6, 2012July 27, 2022

I only had two things on my personal list: mustard colored jeans and a real knitting bag. I’ve been knitting since my son was something like a year and a…

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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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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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50mm | craft | knitting | linkage | photography

Summer Sweater, So Far…

Bymichelle July 11, 2012August 1, 2022

This is my Campus Jacket, a pattern by Amy Christoffers.  I’ve been wanting something toggled and tweedy for winter, and when I saw that Webs had just enough of one…

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50mm | linkage | music | photography | stuff | thinking out loud

Summer Music

Bymichelle July 6, 2012August 1, 2022

I wasn’t in too big a rush when buying The Idler Wheel… album. I learned from my mistake of buying the Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros‘ album Here as a download.  I was in…

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