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Yarn Along/WIP Wednesday – Knitting Gemini and Learning More Than I Ever...

The only thing I’ve ever knitted with cotton is dish cloths. And I’ve knitted lots. Dozens and dozens; maybe even hundreds and hundreds. I’ve lost track. I think of cotton yarn, perhaps unfairly, as...

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Oh My Stars and Tardises – Dr. Who Knitting Project for GenCon

I’ve been looking forward to GenCon for months and now it’s just around the corner. In honor of the convention (and because the nerd in me is fighting to get out) I have decided to knit a special...

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Something old, something new. Something borrowed, something red.

Last weekend, the BF and I attended a lovely country wedding. It was at an old and picturesque farm in Mt. Horeb (something old). Mother Nature provided all the decorations. Well, almost all. An...

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Lewis Carroll Was Here: Diz, niddy noddy, and other crazy spinning words.

I’ve just fallen down a rabbit hole. The SPINNING rabbit hole.  It’s a crazy, wonderful obsession, made even crazier and more wonderful by all the flavorful terminology that spinners use. Say these...

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Over-committed. Christmas Knitting Strikes Again.

Why do I do this to myself? Why, sweet spaghetti monster, why? After last year’s Yuletide fiber marathon I swore I wouldn’t over-commit myself  again. There’s no need to make homemade gifts for every...

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Review: Needles and Artifice, Plus Sample Project

A few months ago, The Ladies of Mischief asked me to review their new book, Needles and Artifice. I’ve waited until now to write my review because I wanted to be able to review it, not only as a...

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February Finds – On My Struggles to Stay Triogamous

There’s nothing like a yarn diet combined with an important long-term project to make the eyes wander. I am only allowed three open projects right now: The wedding shawl The not-a-boyfriend-sweater...

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An Experiment in My Knitting Technique

I’ve always been an English style knitter. A thrower. And a rather clumsy one at that. I learned to knit when I was eight. Mom showed be the ropes (pun intended), but after that I taught myself most...

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Naming Yarn Colorways Based on Treasured Children’s Books

I have a fantasy in which I am hired by a yarn company to come up with names for all their colorways. Total carte blanche to name them any way I want, using any wild inspiration that tickles my fancy....

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Yarn Colorways Inspired by Bridge to Terabithia

Oh, Bridge to Terabithia, you still make my chest tight and my eyes overflow. Even when I’m only scanning you for colorway inspiration. This is a YA book that definitely deserves to be celebrated in...

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Yarn Colorways Inspired by The Dragonriders of Pern

Anne McCaffrey‘s Dragonriders of Pern series has lots of scope for yarny imagination. Even though I’m in my 30s I still have daydreams where I imagine myself as Menolly or Lessa.  I don’t think we...

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