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M Visits LYS: A Play in Two Scenes

Posted in silliness on February 28, 2007 | 12 Comments »

Cast of CharactersMe: that is IM: 6’4″ of curly-headed manlinessRebecca: Proprietress of LYSLatBTs: Ladies at the Big Table (four of them) SettingA dark and stormy lunch hour at the LYS Scene 1: Me and M enter LYS.Rebecca: Hi again! How are you? Me: Great. I’m here to look at sock yarn. Rebecca: Let me know [...]

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How I Spent My Sunday

Posted in cocktails on February 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »

Lately, I have been in a sweater slump, so much so that I read with alarm Sheepish Annie’s post in which she mentions the dreaded “I Started a Blog and Now I Can’t Seem to Knit Sweaters Anymore” Curse. All my sweater issues can be summed up by that one horrendous word gauge. I have [...]

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Good Swatch, Bad Swatch

Posted in Piecrust Scarf, scarves on February 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Bad light pink swatch. Good fuschia swatch. In good news/bad news situations, I try to get the bad news out of the way first. That way, after I survive the bad news, I have the good to brighten me up. So I’ll start with the bad swatch. While reading one of Margaux’s posts at tentenknits [...]

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Joinery

Posted in victorian lace on February 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »

M’s joinery: tongue and groove dovetails interlocking dados My joinery: knitting on the second border perpendicular to the scarf length OK, so I don’t use power tools, I don’t make a lot of sawdust, and I don’t know a nifty name for this type of “joinery,” but knitting the second border of the wide-bordered scarf [...]

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Landscape Shawl: Pattern Notes

Posted in Landscape Shawl, Pattern Notes, shawls on February 20, 2007 | 12 Comments »

I’ve worn the Landscape Shawl a couple of times now, even though we are having unseasonably warm weather, and I am completely hooked on the whole shawl gestalt. They are so handy and pretty! Last Friday dawned a sunny day, so I cajoled M into taking some pictures outside. Pattern: Landscape Shawl from Fibertrends (2000)Yarn: [...]

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I did it. Finally.

Posted in socks on February 14, 2007 | 16 Comments »

I finally successfully “Kitchenered” the toe of a sock (you thought I was going to talk about the Landscape shawl–that’s waiting for a nice daylight photo-op). I have grafted the toes before, but have usually ended up with some loop I can’t do anything with except hide on the inside. There was also the time [...]

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Off. The. Needles.

Posted in Landscape Shawl, shawls on February 12, 2007 | 12 Comments »

It’s not blocked yet (tomorrow), or the few ends woven in, but the Landscape Shawl is bound off!!! 47,600 stitches. Bound off! Thanks to everyone who left such encouraging comments concerning this shawl! I hope to coerce M in to helping with a photo shoot after it is blocked. Now, it’s time for one of [...]

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Pink

Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2007 | 7 Comments »

Only recently have I become aware that pink causes controversy among knitters. Pink’s a love it or leave it color. One meme that made its way around asked a simple question: red or pink? I thought both. But most people had a definite preference. Red is red and pink is pink, and never the twain [...]

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Green

Posted in Landscape Shawl, shawls, socks on February 7, 2007 | 6 Comments »

It’s all Landscape Shawl all the time here at Molecular Knitting. Well, there’s a little work on the FA parrot socks, too. I’m almost done with the first sock! Here it is relaxing on our faux black mink throw. Progress on the Landscape Shawl is up to 67%. Two-thirds done! It was only a little [...]

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Turquoise

Posted in Landscape Shawl, victorian lace on February 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »

I’ll get to the turquoise in a moment. This weekend Karen arrived and approved her mitts, and she requested another pair. I showed her both my fingering weight screaming red mitts and the chunky baby alpaca mitts I made last summer. She really liked the alpaca, so I gave them to her also. I know [...]

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