I have been neglectful of my blog... again. Sorry about that... again. In June a friend from my knitting group passed away from breast cancer. Her daughter saw on our group's email list that we were having a yarn swap in the summer and asked if she could bring her mother's yarn for us to divide up. I didn't end up getting the yarn from her until ( Read more... )

When I went to visit Kristi in April she was wearing a very pretty, skinny crocheted scarf. I admired it and she told me it was a pattern called tiny scarf that she had recently finished. She even handed me the printed chart (it's a free pattern, don't freak out). When my shoulder was hurting and I was blaming knitting I wanted something to crochet ( Read more... )

Here is an update on my knitting projects. I've been doing a bit of knitting but really the de-cluttering has taken over. So... pictures!


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I have not had much success with my knitting recently. I finally got my act together to finish Liesl.


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I know I mentioned it at least once or twice, but I have been wanting to knit Lara Chau's Dipped Infinity Scarf pattern. Sunshine Yarns was selling gorgeous kits at Stitches but they were all wool sock yarn. I searched at Stitches and then quite a lot online afterward without much success. Finally, I realized that the best solution was a silk or ( Read more... )

I should be sleeping but look: I finished stuff!


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After getting Rachel Herron's yet-to-be-published book from her at Stitches, I was determined to finish it before its release date. I finished it today, on its release date, which I am going to call a victory ( Read more... )

Everyone else (it seems) was buying the kit for Laura Chau's dipped infinity scarf from Sunshine Yarns. I really want to make that but the kit is, of course, all wool yarns. 120 yards each of seven colors of fingering weight yarn plus 50 yards of an eighth color. I really want to make it too so it was my goal today to find non-wool yarn that would ( Read more... )

I must admit that I was not really looking forward to Stitches this year. I'm not sure what happened. I think I was bummed about Signature not being there and then there was lots of snow in the Sierra and it didn't look like Kristi would make it. Signature still didn't make it, but Kristi did, which is better than the other way around ( Read more... )

The sweater I'm knitting for Christine is close to being done but she is leaving on Sunday so I might still have to mail it to her. That seems likely. Sorry, Christine! At least you'll have a package waiting for you at your new house.

I did finish this for her, twice.


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