Finished!

Three finishes, and a first. The Bias Pink Shawl is yet another iteration of my standard recipe shawl…a wardrobe staple. CO3, inc up one side almost to desired length/yarn usage, change from stockinette to (yo,k2tog) just long enough so that yarn-chicken isn’t necessary to complete a stretchy BO. A lovely layer that will go with […]

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Ah, summer at last!

Finished these three Miettes, May 20 – June 13! Still have to weave in the ends, but wow! Of course, by the time #3 was mostly done I had made some minor alterations that made the knitting lay smoother on the edges and makes me want to go back and redo #1, except that I […]

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fresh start – welcome early summer!

Doesn’t that image just make you smile? The first fawn of the season always reminds me that life goes on and, no matter what, this too shall pass. Watching these two get to know each other in our back pasture has reminded me that it is time to stop, take a breath, and be thankful […]

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Drifting into spring….

This is Drift, she’s a pullover by Kristen Finlay in Sueno in the Bowl of Raspberries Tonal colorway. She’s been my constant companion all week, in the car at stop-lights, on my lunch break, in the car with my best man taking a drive, at home in the evening…we’ve been faithful, and now we are […]

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A productively unproductive week…

I still can’t believe it! I knit all the way through sections 3 and 4 on my On The Spice Market shawl. As I wrote out the instructions for sections 5 and 6….I discovered a massive error in my transcribing! In three places in section 4 I wrote – and knit – kfb – when […]

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Sneak Peek…What’s on my needles?

Started the fabulous On The Spice Market shawl on March 4th…section 3 hand me confused until I just started knitting it, wow…! The yarn is Hippo for Mardi Gras 2018, plus the minis that go with it, on 3.25mm needles. I’m not sure I like all the garter stitch that is coming off the needles […]

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