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Thoughts on Little Red

Bymichelle April 24, 2015August 4, 2022

You’re looking at some of my swatches that I’ve been gathering for a swatch blanket inspired by Ysolda‘s crazy swatch jumble in the pages of Little Red in the City….

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garden | iphoneographs | knitting | photography | thinking out loud

Color Change

Bymichelle April 15, 2015August 4, 2022

Don’t you love that point when a color changes?  It could be from winter brown to spring green, from green to blooming, or from the stem to the end of…

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

The Rory Needs a Break Scarf

Bymichelle April 7, 2015August 4, 2022

This modified Unicorn Stripes (by Antonia Shankland) scarf was a form of therapy.  Who cares that it’s super long and repetitive?  It uses lots of stash yarns, some of which…

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

Laylow! Emily and Richard are on the Warpath

Bymichelle March 26, 2015August 4, 2022

Do you know how long I have waited to make Shannon Cook‘s Laylow shawl?  I think I ordered yarn for it before my pattern booklet came in.  Then I just took…

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

Gilmore Girls Knit-a-Long

Bymichelle March 12, 2015August 4, 2022

I put it off as long as I could.  I mean I watched all of my old favorites, like Firefly, Lost, anything with David Tennant, and The Closer, multiple times….

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Christianity | phoneography | photography | thinking out loud

A Beautiful Woman

Bymichelle March 2, 2015August 4, 2022

Beautiful never mattered to me.  It just wasn’t on my radar.  Useful, kind, strong, faithful, disciplined, imaginative, bold, funny- these things were.  They were the things I wanted to be….

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craft | knitting | phoneography | photography | thinking out loud

One Thing at a Time

Bymichelle February 19, 2015August 4, 2022

Usually seeing a project progress gives me a lift.  Something tangible is getting accomplished!  But this year I’ve found I’m getting bogged down in projects.  I haven’t shifted my expectations…

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

The return of mauve and other things my mother would’ve loved

Bymichelle February 16, 2015August 4, 2022

I was so much more content to wear my brother’s old blue jeans than dresses straight off the set of Little House on the Prairie.  My mother won on Sundays,…

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family | thinking out loud

Happy Valentine’s Day

Bymichelle February 14, 2015August 4, 2022

It was the seventies and we were three, cut us some slack. Happy Valentine’s Day. (on my instagram)

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knitting | linkage | phoneography | photography | places | thinking out loud

Veera and Joji Knit Fort Worth

Bymichelle February 14, 2015August 4, 2022

I’ve been to Madtosh Crafts before, but never for a class.  In fact, I’ve never done any kind of craft with a group since college.  My first thought was to…

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