Everything is Growing
Everything is growing. I get kind of sad about it when each school year begins. I miss the intensity of mothering my children when they were small. Nothing highlights the…
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Ease in Elizabeth’s Style
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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The Classic I Must Knit
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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The Continental and -1 Needles
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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Now that I’m famous…
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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I Have Sticks, Yarn, and Slightly Below-Average Intelligence
“Really all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence.” “.. what’s the sense in planning ahead, unless you have to?” “…contrary to…
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Hawt Galveston Sands
Riding the ferry to Galveston is a major nostalgia trigger for me. I remember taking it to visit my older sister one summer after my mother passed away. I didn’t…
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In Pieces
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…
Cotton
It’s my new thing. (This is a fibery kind of post; I’m just warning you.) I’m officially all the way into the deep end of summer knitting. Last summer, I…
Pom Pom Quarterly
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…