Finished. I finally cast off my Khaki. I wasn’t sure this would happen. For the first time I had no desire to knit. We have all heard makers say they have lost their mojo. I didn’t understand, until I did. It’s story time. This story is about why I almost didn’t finish this project. First […]
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When asked what I love the most in my fiber journey, my answer is always the people. The Community Love Fund is in it’s fourth year AND launches my new color “GG Loves Silver Linings”. Did you know I was the Ambassador? I am! I love when everyone wins. Let’s discuss the fund shall we?
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I have come to realize that all of the dark feelings that I have about myself stemmed from my childhood. As a result, I have decided to write a letter to little me. If I could I would go back and hold me tight. Obviously, I can not, so this letter I will write. Dear
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Back in April, I found myself in an airport headed back to Tulsa, OK. This time is was to launch the Spring Hot Loops Wall at the Knit Stars flagship store. The loops wall was turning HOT (orange). You see the Hot Loop wall always has a theme and this time the theme is GG
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Knitting came into my life when I needed it most. I was struggling, emotionally, and I kept my knitting close. That was 10 years ago and here we go again. This pandemic has been tough for many reasons. I Thank God that I could pick of my yarn and distract myself. Today is February 10th
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Fall is here and the maker community is buzzing with excitement. This is OUR time. It’s time for the festivals, the KALS, and the yarn crawls. I am coming to you to talk about the Knit Collage Fall Knit along. It happens every year around this time. The votes are in and here are the
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Going through hard times is how I wound up in love with knitting. No matter how hard things got, I kept my heaZomied down and I knit. I could cry and my yarn didn’t have any questions. I could NOT want to talk to anyone and that was absolutely ok while knitting. You see for
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Habits, we all have them. A habit is defined as a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up. Are you thinking “where are you going with this GG?” Stick with me…I need to explain. A while back I wrote a blog post about things I have learned. Clearly
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Making a hat should be simple right? Ha! Can we talk about this hat I just finished and the lessons learned along the way? Can we? Ok let’s start with the details. Madelinetosh recently introduced a new base Wool + Cotton AND one of the color ways is GLO of course. Along with this new
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Socks…this is not my first pair. If I look at my Ravelry feed, I made my first pair in July of 2012. They were toe up, with a heel flap and I used Red Heart Aran Weight yarn. Since then I have made other socks but in my head I was convinced I wasn’t a
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