A sight to warm the heart (and the body)

Isn’t this a nice thing to turn and see? Yummy bright, deep and saturated color knits waiting at your fingertips. Socks knit in your own laid back, easy pattern (for yourself); longies for a friend (finally completed!); and your first completed knitting project sitting on the arm of the couch casually awaiting it’s [...]

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Crazy Cables

I’m having a great time with these! I finally cast on last week; I’m working a 7×1 rib with a “crazy” cable in place of one of the ribs. I had intended to make the socks longer, but then I realized that my favorite socks (the Molly socks in my header) are short [...]

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Thanks, baby

Gee, I’m prolific lately, huh?  I think it’s the lessening of stress — I don’t feel guilty blogging about knitting now that I don’t have a bunch of knitting deadlines looming (ha — look at that; I made a fiber pun!).  In fact, I finally finished the green longies that had been in timeout for…6 [...]

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Do you know what this means??

Well, do you? I’ll tell you what it means at my house…it means that there is no laundry left to do! It’s all done. Every last stinky sock, peed on sheet, puked on blanket (oh am I glad flu season is over!), and grass stained blue jean. Even the diapers were washed, dried AND put [...]

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Yaawwwwnnn!

 
Oy!  Tired.  That one word (and picture) says it all.  My Mom got married this weekend and is now (presumably) enjoying a wonderful honeymoon in Cancun — go Mom!  She definitely upgraded with this guy (my father is not exactly a shining example of husband, father, or manhood…to put it politely) – of course it took [...]

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