Wool socks for summer

The brother and sister in law have gone to the coast for the weekend and the nephews are at their grandma’s in Vancouver, so I am having a glorious Saturday of puttering around the house alone. I haven’t puttered for quite awhile, it’s nice. I slept late, took a looong shower (so much nicer than [...]

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Don’t be too shocked now….

So I’ve been holding out on you. Not from general blogging, I think I’d better stop apologizing about the length of time between updates and embrace the fact that I’m a once a week at best blogger. But I’ve had new, actual news, and yet I didn’t share. What is this privileged information, you ask? [...]

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Ode to A&W

Last weekend (see how far behind I am on blogging?) I drove down to the little bitty town I grew up in for the first five years of my life, to do some duty and take a look around. My grandparents are buried at the Lutheran church, and since August 15th is (was) my grandfather’s [...]

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I have one convert.

If I get two does that qualify as having minions?
After three months of living with a knitter, my sister in law finally broke down and asked me to teach her to knit. That, or I kept her on death hold waiting for her Sontag, and she finally figured out it would be faster to learn [...]

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Blast from the past

Back in April, I wrote a long post about the Saxon Braid Cardi and detailed the process of designing it, then I wrote about grafting the hood, and you never heard about it again. That’s because I blocked it out, wrote a victorious finished object post in my head, picked up the dry sweater to [...]

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Reading Material

First the obligatory proof of knitting:

These socks are pretty slow going, but that might be due to a pesky thing called “gainful employment” rather than my skills as a knitter. I only manage to get a few rounds done at a time with these, due to decreased free time (see above), kiddie wrangling, and the [...]

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