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Holla Knits Knit and Crochet-a-long

Bymichelle August 5, 2014August 3, 2022

Yep, there’s more “a-longs” happening around here.  Holla Knits is having a knit and crochet-a-long focused on the two special collections that have been released in the last two years….

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Winter/ Spring Instagram Dump

Bymichelle April 9, 2014August 3, 2022

Just space filling with Instagram. Birthday treats knitalong treats valentine’s treat making stuff riding my bike only not with yarn in it taking in our little bit of outdoors still…

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Cowl Neck

Bymichelle March 15, 2014August 3, 2022

I’ve never knit a cowl-neck or turtleneck sweater before.  Maybe because I remember my mother making me sweat out a fever in a mustard colored turtleneck under five blankets when…

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Knitting and Smoke Break

Bymichelle March 14, 2014August 3, 2022

As if I wasn’t chin deep in knitalong projects, I decided to cast on for mittens knit two-at-a-time in the Linden KAL.  I saw a teaser for Jane Richmond‘s Linden…

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Wanna See Something Neat?

Bymichelle December 17, 2013August 2, 2022

It’s a Dreiecke hat on my daughter.  I knit it for her best friend for Christmas.  It’s unblocked, of course, but I do like the amount of stitch definition the…

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Week 2 – Taking Care of Business

Bymichelle June 17, 2013August 2, 2022

This is almost all of my Nachtfalter ribbing in pomegranate.  It doesn’t look like much progress, due to the tinyness of all of these stitches, but it has, in fact,…

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An Old, Familiar Beatnik

Bymichelle April 27, 2012July 27, 2022

No, I don’t mean Maynard Krebs.  I’m talking about a pattern that has become very familiar over the last month or so and in a yarn that feels that way,…

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I’m the Woman With the Master Plan

Bymichelle March 17, 2010July 27, 2022

(354 Day 65 photo) A few weeks ago I went through all of my seeds to see what I had that I could plant now after this unusually long winter…

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Bymichelle March 10, 2010

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