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Sweater Blocking Conundrum: Grey Tweed Pullover, Episode 2

Posted in Grey Tweed Pullover, WIPs on September 24, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Last March I started knitting my dark grey Donegal tweed yarn into a simple pullover, and then the weather got pretty warm, so I put it away. Then during the hottest part of July, I ran into a decision-requiring situation with my attempt at the February Lady Sweater (don’t ask why I thought worsted weight [...]

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FO: Nelosys

Posted in contests, FOs, NELOSYS, shawls, tagged shawl on September 21, 2008 | 13 Comments »

First, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who left a comment about Rippy. My family was very touched; many comments brought tears to their eyes. My brother was glad to see that so many other people had had cats live so long and that became such good friends with their people. I used a random [...]

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A Tribute to Rip

Posted in Uncategorized on September 12, 2008 | 60 Comments »

I intended this post to be a belated 2nd Blogiversary post and to have a contest in order to give away a couple of skeins of sock yarn. And I’m still giving away the yarn. I’ll randomly pick two commenters to this post to win the yarn, but I have a more serious purpose. My [...]

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Sucked into LibraryThing, but still a FO

Posted in FOs, socks, tagged FOs, socks on September 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Last weekend my barcode scanner for entering books into LibraryThing arrived, and I got sucked in. The scary part is that I spent most of Saturday and a good part of Sunday putting our books into my account, and at 822 books, I’m maybe 2/3 through. If you have a lot of books, LibraryThing is [...]

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