Free lunch, Halloween style
Shortly after I started knitting, I saw some knitted “fruit hats”–you know, the ones that make babies’ heads look like strawberries or blueberries or whatever. I bought the pattern and realized that I...
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Via Craft, I recently rediscovered a pattern I’d first encountered last winter via my SP8 downstream pal’s blog. It’s for a double-sided star scarf that looks awfully fun to knit. I’m thinking about...
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Headed to the frog pond
After finishing the B.O.B. Sweater, I decided to knit a scarf for myself. I’ve had a copy of Scarf Style from Interweave for some time, and whenever I look through it I find that I like patterns that I...
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Making waves
Last June I received a wonderful, yarn-filled package from Karen at Yarn Is My Métier. Almost immediately I cast on for Karen’s Mia Shrug (there’s a pattern link on the front page of her blog), using...
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Jumping on the Baktus bandwagon
Apparently the Baktus scarf was all the rage last year among Norwegian knitters–and the non-Norwegians who read the Norwegian knitters’ blogs. I heard about it only recently, when my friend JD posted...
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Close call
Remember that Baktus scarf I made last fall of two not-quite-full skeins of Koigu? Sylvia has taken to wearing it–which is great, because it’s the perfect size for her. During last month’s heavy...
View ArticleFree lunch: Revenge of Scarf-o-rama
This double-sided cable scarf has one cable down the middle–a great project for anyone approaching cable knitting for the first time and with trepidation. If knitting lots and lots (and lots) of I-cord...
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On the needles…and off again
About two weeks ago, Barnes and Noble’s online store had a brief sale on their edition of the recently published Sock Yarn One-Skein Wonders: 101 Patterns That Go Way Beyond Socks! (Note: The B&N...
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Life update
Reading: The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth. A compelling narrative, well-drawn characters, and good writing. I liked this book very much, though reading it made me feel a bit paranoid: I saw in...
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Scarf weather has arrived . . .
. . . and thanks to my awesome friend Jean, I am extra-prepared for it this year! She made this scarf for me last spring, but I’m only now getting to wear it for the first time.
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