A tale and some news

On my T ride home last night I saw someone knitting!  It was so exciting because I never see anyone knitting- Green Line C train.  She was knitting a Boucle scarf in Stockinette (I think)  I wasn’t that stalkery- well I was I took this picture of her, but then I talked to her about her scarf [...]

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My Wednesday- very productive!

In preparation for December I am getting ready to update my shop, I have been doing some work!  Here’s a sneak peek!

I’ll update more later!

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Stripes!

SO as I was waiting for the T this morning, I had to take a picture of my hat. This is the hat that Jessie made for me last year. SO cute, right? and so warm!  It was time to start wearing this “winter hat” as opposed to my autumn hat.  But I really took this picture [...]

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Have you heard about the yarn giveaway?

Kristin Nicholas is having a contest to give away yarn!  YARN GIVEAWAY!  Just go here and follow the instructions.  AND have you checked out her fabulous new book yet?  Kristin Knits is available at Amazon now!

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More Christmasing done!

I finished the Red Sox (slippers) for Ben’s dad!!  I think I am going to give them to him not felted and make him felt them so they fit on his feet perfectly.  We’ll see if he uses them!  I might felt them over my mother’s feet (apparently they’re pretty close in size), but I [...]

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Paris Gloves- a saga

So- all weekend I was knitting away! I designed these gloves for Becca based on a picture I took at Sacre Cour in Paris. I love the pattern. I downloaded the template from Hello Yarn. It was super fun to create the pattern and then knit it!
Here’s the beginning picture. Sorry [...]

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Christmas Gifts!

So for all of us who took the Buy Handmade pledge, or even if you haven’t, I have some gift ideas!  AND if you’re like me- you said, well I’ll just make all of my gifts, but you know-  there’s always that one cousin you forgot and I HATE giving fruit cakes.  So here’s some [...]

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Getting back into the swing

So yeah- I totally fell of the earth for a few days. I have made much progress on my slippers! This is a picture of the first one, but I’ve actually finished the first one and am about here on the second!

Last night Ben took me to this program called “My Dearest Friend” which was [...]

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My Mojo

So- my second sock is totally killing my knitting mojo.  And seeing that part of a sock is a really boring blog post- here’s a cute picture I took a few weeks ago.  I love it.  It seems so autumesque. 
 I have to keep working on Christmas/ holiday knitting!!  Hanukah is December 5!!  DECEMBER 5!!  That’s [...]

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Afghans

This is an afghan suggestion I received- Thanks Caroline!

It’s cable comfort throw, a free pattern from Lion Brand Yarn.  It takes 9 balls of Thick n’ Quick, but it has 5 different panels, so I could do 5 different colors.  Hmmm…

Fig, Butterscotch,  Lemongrass, Spice, Green Heather?
I think my mom would really hate that color combination!  [...]

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