I don’t recall what made me go searching for jogless stripes or exactly how I stumbled over this video here. <—- click me. When I tell you I couldn’t wait to try. I have always loved stripes but I absolutely hate weaving in the ends..so AVOIDANCE use to happen, but then I learned to cary […]
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Yesterday I said I would update the “I tried…” post when I got to the kitchener stitch, but I decided to do a post instead. Can we talk about how fast I run in the other direction when a pattern requires kitchener stitch? If I had to do the pattern, I would just punk out
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Yesterday at approximately 4pm I finished my yarn hollow headband. The day was basically over so I was good in reference to knitting, right? Shelbey came home and we went to the mall to return some things, sat in the over crowded food court, ate and just chatted it up. The plan was to come
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Over the last few days I have completed two projects with some absolutely yummy yarns. Yarn that was either the perfect color or just sinfully sexy and I had leftovers. Now is some cases like a big ole pot of spaghetti, leftovers are required. Why is spaghetti so damn good the next day? Ok back
Operation Knit all the yarn :) Read More »
I need one of you guys to come and model for me. My daughter is running out of patience and some pieces just don’t work with a selfie. THAT is why it has taken me so long to reveal my Touring Cape by Margaret Craig. I finished this more that a week ago. I blocked
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On February 20th the labor began, the journey to birth..yes I said birth, because every time I make a piece I feel like I have had a new baby. My projects are alive and have personalities, to me (no I am not clinically crazy). The patterns teach and motivate me as I go along. They
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see ~Mark Twain I live in an apartment and my mail goes in the slot in my door. So because ole man winter is unusually cruel, I refused to get out of my warm bed. I would get it later, but then
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Yesterday I posted about the beauty of slipping that first stitch and the edge it creates. That post generated some conversation that got me to thinking about slipped stitches and when to use them. So what is a slipped stitch any way? Slipped Stitch A slipped stitch is passed from the left needle to the right
It's Tuesday, let's talk technique Read More »
I am so green out here in these Knitting streets that some techniques I just do because that is what “they” said. You know what I mean, you don’t know “why” but you know how, so you simply do. All of this applies to slipping that first stitch. I was taught that way and when
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There are things that I love, that I also forget about. LOL Today I want to share one of those said things, that being the screw-in leather closures from Jul Designs. I finished my Touring Cape, woot woot!! A blog post coming as soon as it dries and I can take good pics, but the
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