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Bus Stop Pullover

Bymichelle November 13, 2014August 3, 2022

On paper, I loved it.  They looked like perfect little totoros holding umbrellas.  After knitting body and sleeves up to the yoke and seeing that the variegated yarn wasn’t working…

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Procrastinator’s Greatest Hits

Bymichelle September 18, 2014August 3, 2022

Remember Theo Huxtable’s sleeve?  The long one on the shirt Denise sewed for him that didn’t in any way match the other sleeve?  Well, my Featherweight has Theo sleeves.  They…

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In Pieces

Bymichelle June 23, 2014August 3, 2022

I started knitting in my late twenties and hadn’t been at it long when I was introduced to seamless knitting.  There was that Twinkle book and Stefanie Japel, and I became…

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Pom Pom Quarterly

Bymichelle June 6, 2014August 3, 2022

Every once in a while I come across something trivial that I obsess over.  I must collect every single issue, piece, or version of it.  It’s usually some form of…

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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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Spring Stuff, in Progress

Bymichelle April 21, 2014August 3, 2022

This is just a place marker of a post.  I came home from the most unhurried, relaxing, camping trip ever to the normal business of life and haven’t uploaded my…

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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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Penny Vest

Bymichelle December 6, 2013October 26, 2023

If Penny’s Cheesecake Factory vest was in a neutral color… if it was lace instead of stockinette… and if it had me in it instead of Kaley Cuoco… this would…

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Extremely Bernadette

Bymichelle December 5, 2013August 2, 2022

Buttons have been sewn!!  It only took three weeks. This is my Bernadette Sweater for the Big Bang Theory Knitalong.   Tell me this does not look like Bernadette!  It…

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So Bernadette

Bymichelle November 4, 2013August 2, 2022

I’m so excited about the Big Bang Theory Knitalong hosted by Shannon of Luvinthemommyhood for all of us Big Bang Theory fans.  The timing was perfect since I’d just gotten…

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