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Last Tuesday evening was the latest class for me Taste of Aran Afghan. Usually, I have found that one of the two blocks we work on flies by, while the other drags on. Happily, it is not the case this time! Both blocks seem to almost knit themselves. I finished the first, Star Stitch, Thursday morning. You can see a poor photograph of its beauty above. I finished the second block by the end of the

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During the Christmas season, I was quite busy, so I neglected my blog. However, I am now back to posting. To see what I have been knitting in the past month, feel free to click the link on the left to view my Ravelry projects, as I have finished many, many projects, lately.Most recently, I am working on a baby blanket for a coworker. During our mid-November all staff meeting, I was sitting near

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This past Tuesday night was the last afghan class for this year. I finished the first block, Wednesday. This is The Palms and I loved knitting it! It just flew by so fast that I almost wanted to knit another! :)

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A couple of months ago, I asked my sister what I could give her son for his birthday. He was the one that received the horned toad lizard. At that time, he told her that Stitch needed a space suit. I laughed and told her that I could do it, but probably not in time for his birthday. This last Sunday, I was home and looking for something new to start. I have plenty on the needles, but wanted

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I finished another Christmas present this morning...These are the Tantilizing socks from Cat Bordhi's New Pathways for Sock Knitters book. They knit up quickly, maintaining my interest long enough to finish them! They are a men's size 7, knit on 2.5mm needles and using Colinette Jitterbug. I used nearly the whole skein!

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One of my SIL is nearly always cold. As such, she is a great candidate to receive hand knits for gifts. In my quest to knit something for every one, this year, I found 3 balls of Rowan's Tapestry on a good sale and my favorite LYS, Village Yarn and Tea. I really liked the look of the Double-Bordered Scarf with Diamond Borders Adapted from Weldon's by Jane Sowerby that is in the book Victorian

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Last Thursday, I received the latest installment of the Malabrigo Projects club from Eat Sleep Knit. There are 2 skeins of Lace in Applewood, beads and a shawl pattern that uses both. It is beautiful, and yet not a typical color choice for me. I am sure to use it and love it any way, though! I am rather excited to find something to knit with the yarn. I will probably not knit this pattern as

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I recently worked with Monica Woolsey, trying out her recipes for a nutritional counselling service that she was getting ready to launch. One of those recipes was Kung Pao Chicken. I didn't feel like that meal on the day that she intended, but did make it last Wednesday. (This was a few weeks after she sent me the recipe.) I made some changes, like using canola oil instead of peanut oil, as I

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Since my last post, I did finish the third block on the afghan, but didn’t take a photo before putting it away. I really like it, but expect that it will be difficult to photograph until it has been blocked, so I may leave it a while before snapping it.About 10 days ago, I was with one of my SIL. She told me all about how she made her husband (my brother) pick out a shirt for her. She has been

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This past Tuesday night, I went to the second installment of my “Tour of Aran Afghan” knitting class. I ended up being an hour late for a two hour class as I was incorrectly remembering that the class started at 6PM and not 7. I felt like a complete idiot, but at least I was able to be there for a little over half of the instruction time. Since that night, I have been working on finishing the two

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These are knit from the Sourwood Mountain pattern from Fiddle Knits. I used Debbie Bliss Cashermerino DK which made for a very soft pair. They still need three buttons on each cuff. I am thinking of buying some round pearl buttons.

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I received this wonderful package from my secret pal, late last week. It couldn't have come at a better time...I have been sick lately and yarn in the mail was the perfect pick-me-up. :) Enclosed, but not pictured is a small, cranberry scented candle. It was burning already when I took this picture, so it wasn't feasible to lay it on its side so that it could be shown. My pal was Alicia, and

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I recently received 3 balls of Malabrigo Chunky in Paris Night from my Malabrigo projects club. Though I liked the pattern that came with the yarn, I have been wanting to knit the Celtic Cable Bag from Interweave Knits Winter 2007. I didn't have quite enough yarn to knit the bottom of the bag with the blue, so I used the remainder of the green from all the back stitch that goes around the

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One more Christmas present is finished. These are the White Witch Mittens made for my FIL's fiance. They were a relatively quick knit. I used Elann's Peruvian Highland Sport for 3 of the colors. The fourth is Dalegarn Falk. I couldn't get a light enough blue from Elann, so I found the Falk at Village Yarn and Tea. It was a little heavier, but came together quite well in the finished project.

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I finished another Christmas present, last weekend. This hat knit up very quickly as I used Elann's Peruvian Highland Bulky. I wasn't very pleased with the yarn while working with it, but the finished project is beautiful. Check it out on Ravelry for more details.

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Several weeks ago our clothes dryer started making all kinds of noise. I contacted our landlord, my dad, who did very little for a while. He asked that my dh call a repair man. About 10 days later, said repair man arrived. After about 20 minutes, he came to the conclusion that it would be expensive and that other more expensive or impossible repairs would need to be done before long. The old

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My brothers mittens are completed and I have the fingerless mitts for my sil nearly finished, as well. Here are the finished mittens, Peekaboo. They have a large "buttonhole" in the palm of the hand to allow the fingers to poke out in case the full sense of touch is required for a task. I love them and hope that they fit him well. They are knit with Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK, which is quite soft

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Though I just blogged about the yarn 2 days ago, I actually received it over a week ago and have been enjoying knitting through it just as quickly as possible. As a result, I have 2 presents completely finished: a pair of socks for my dad and a scarf for my sister's husband. I have started 2 more, a pair of mittens for my youngest brother and an afghan for my mom. Each one is coming along quite

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Last week, I went on Ravelry, searching for the perfect gifts to knit for my family for Christmas. I have 4 siblings, all of which are married or in a stable relationship. Two of them have a son. This ends up totaling 16 people! After finding the perfect patterns, I opened my stash page to see if I already had the yarn that I needed. In a couple of cases I did. However, I was able to happily

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About 2 weeks ago, I was talking with my sister about her son's 7th birthday party. When I asked what I could give him, she wasn't sure. Then, she started to list some of his favorite animals: sharks, lizards and dogs. He has several dozen stuffed dogs. (I'm not exaggerating, really!!) So, I decided that the subject matter should be one of the other 2 choices. After deciding that I wanted to make

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This month's shipment from Eat.Sleep.Knit. is a skein of Sock in Abril. The yarn was so lovely, that I just couldn't wait to begin, not even long enough to take a picture before winding the hank into a ball! I cast on as soon as I finished the square for the afghan. The accompanying pattern has cables around the top. Otherwise, it is a basic, top-down, stockinette sock with an eye-of-partridge

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I received another, wonderful package from my Secret Pal, last Saturday. She sent 3 skeins in one of my favorite yarns: Berroco's Ultra Alpaca. They're lovely and I can hardly wait to find the perfect project for them.

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Thanks for the two wonderful ideas. Have any of you felted Malabrigo? I do like the idea of knitting a bag and love carrying ones that have been felted. I have made so many shawls, lately, that I am looking for something else, though I liked the pattern that was suggested.AND, the winner is: Jen!

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I have been enjoying the purchasing of many thousands of yards of yarn, lately! I received an email from Eat.Sleep.Knit that they were clearance-ing some colors of Malabrigo. I just had to buy some and finally made the (difficult!) decision to purchase Citrus. I have over 1200 yards with which to make a shawl. I am probably going to make this with it. I already have white, glass beads to use

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I love knitting in groups, especially in groups of people who are all knitting the same thing. So, when Faye, at Village Yarn and Tea, started talking up her aran afghan class, I was intrigued and signed up. I didn't want to spent hundreds on the yarn, so I ordered 24 balls of Wool of the Andes from Knit Picks in white. My living room is mostly black and white, with a floral black and white

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Back on August 31st, I told you about a sale at my favorite LYS, Village Yarn and Tea. That day, I also purchased a skein of Araucania Lonco Multy in a beautiful variegated orchid color. It is 440 yards. I started searching Ravelry, almost immediately for the best pattern and easily narrowed it down to a pattern from "Victorian Lace Today" and Zetor. Both were shawl patterns. When I finished

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Last Friday, I finished knitting the main body of the Malabrigo Shawl. I took all but around 2 yards of the 5 skeins of Silky that I had from Eat.Sleep.Knit's Malabrigo Projects Club. To knit the border, I dug into my stash and pulled out the remaining 1/2 ball of Silky from a club shipment earlier in the year. I love the raspberry color with the gray. Blocking this one was difficult and I am

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When I get really tired of my current stealth project, I have been working with the yarn from last month's Malabrigo shipment. I am knitting the Fan Shawl from Crystal Palace with Malabrigo Silky. It is a free pattern that I found on Ravelry and is very fun to knit, while still being simpler than the said stealth project.

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When I knit for babies, I just love to make sweaters. I have used both washable wool and cotton many times. I have found that mom's don't mind laying a sweater out to dry instead of throwing it in the dryer, so I don't worry about it much. My SIL, with the 18 month old, is not usually very careful with laundry. However, she loves the things that I knit so they are well taken care of. I made

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Not long ago, I received an email from Eat Sleep Knit announcing that they were discounting some soon to be discontinued colors of Malabrigo. I have been wanting to make another lace shawl, so I purchased enough lace weight in Citrus to make a good sized shawl. I will probably make Pearled Romance by Birgit Freyer. I love her patterns and have this one in my posession already. I am thinking

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Welcome the latest kit from Eat Sleep Knit's Malabrigo Club! It came with a great pattern for a lap blanket. The pattern looks simple enough, but I detest knitting mitered squares. I love the project, but would probably never finish, so I am looking for a new pattern to knit the yarn. Any suggestions? Leave a comment with a pattern that is on Ravelry and make sure to enter your email address when

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I received these very, very well knitted socks in the mail last Wednesday. Sock Wars didn't go so well for me this year, and I ended up with a pair of socks that I couldn't wear. So, I was assigned to a wonderful person who knit me a pair as a consolation and they fit GREAT! The knitting is also very professional and I am really going to love these once the weather is cool enough to wear them!

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While putting away sewing patterns, last Sunday, I found a dress pattern that is very simple. I also found some fabric that would be perfect for this pattern. However, I don't have enough for this dress! I have wanted to use the pattern for some time, so I may go to the fabric store tomorrow for the perfect fabric. As they are getting in their fall fabrics, I may just find a good price on

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Last week, I opened my email to find the latest version of Tuulia Salmela's Tailored Sweater Pattern. My friend K & I took a class from her on this method of knitting sweaters from the shoulder to the hem early last spring. Since then, I found an error and she wanted to make some improvements. I was so happy to see the new file come out. I own the book "Custom Knits" by Wendy Bernard.

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Last Tuesday, I spent several hours fixing some of the skirts that I have made in the past 6 months. Several of them were too full and so I didn't really wear them very often. A couple of them were too loose around the waist, too, so I fixed that while I was at it. I dislike making alterations very much, so I just put on a movie and spent as little time possible using a seam ripper. Mostly, I

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Last Saturday, my friend K picked me up and we went to our favorite store, Village Yarn and Tea for some iced tea and knitting. We spent about 4 hours there, and then went to get some lunch. Afterward, we went to Joann's. She was looking to buy some letter beads so that she could make some stitch markers for knitting socks from Cat Bordhi's book. Everything she needed was 40% off! While there, I

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I have recently finished 2 sleeveless sweaters that have not worked out quite like I had imagined. Both are knit top down and have issues that will make me rip them back to near the beginning of the project.The first is the yarn from June's Malabrigo Club shipment, 100% Organic Cotton. I love this yarn. I knit a swatch, washed and dried it. Having done this, I decided that I liked it better

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I received a package on Saturday from Loopy Ewe. "That's funny," I thought when I saw the box. However, I did suddenly remember an email from my Secret Pal that included an USPS tracking code, that said to expect a package from one of my favorite stores! There is a beautiful skein of Colinette Jitterbug, a tape measure and some Tootsie Rolls. Its a wonderful package, SP, thanks! :)

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Also a couple of weeks ago, I received my July shipment for Eat Sleep Knit's Malabrigo Club. I started the accompanying pattern, but my gauge was off a little which made it too big. Then, the stealth project that I have been expecting needed to be started. So, I just ripped out what I had and set the yarn aside for later. It is a dream to knit with, though, and I expect to make a cardigan

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A couple weeks ago, I was at Village Yarn and Tea on a day where they had marked their clearance yarns an extra 40% off. When I saw this beautiful, dark fuscia colored MerLin, I snatched it up! I am thinking of making either a summer top or a shawl with it. It would make a lovely shawl for when the weather cools this fall.

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Here is my finished Mia Bella Shawl. It is lace weight with many, many beads around the edge. I made the version that is just a little bit more than half a circle and absolutely love it! I have been wearing it several times a week. It is great for cooler, summer mornings. (I have just adjusted my work schedule and am now arriving at work at 6:30 AM, so I often need just a little something!)

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I have been working on the Mia Bella Shawl. The last piece of the pattern was released several weeks ago. I was on par to finish within a week of the release of the last clue, until I ran out of beads about the beginning of week 6 of 8. After ordering more, it took a while to go back to knitting on the shawl. I have had them for about 2 weeks, now. These last two clues have taken quite a long

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Over the past week, I have been working on some non-new projects. My purple, short-sleeved sweater (Ravelry name: Spring Pullover) has seen much progress. Yesterday, I finished the front and will continue on to the back today!

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I am so excited for this round of Secret Pal. I have heard from my upstream partner and emailed my downstream and am ready to go. Now that I have my pal’s information, I am starting to plan my gifts for her.

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1. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with? What fibers do you absolutely *not* like? I love 100% natural yarns like wool, alpaca, silk, cotton, hemp, etc. I really do not like knitting with acrylics or blends where more than 20% of the fiber is synthetic.2. What do you use to store your needles/hooks in? I have these to hold my needles when not in use.3. How long have you been knitting &

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During the LYS Tour, I found a pattern that I really liked for a sleeveless top knit in Louet's Euroflax Worsted. I didn't have the money to buy the yarn at that time, and it was quite pricey, so I waited. In the weeks that followed, I began to realize that the yarn may not be very easy to find. Then, during a break on the day of the skirt class, I found some on sale at Village Yarn!

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My friend K & I finally took our skirt design and knitting class at Village Yarn, on June 13th. The class was nice and I really like the design worksheet that Carol Lansinger (the designer) had created and handed out. It was just the 2 of us in the class and so it finished earlier than expected. During the class, I was the only one who had a completed swatch with me, so we used it to design a

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This is the Josephine Top from Interweave Knits Summer 2007, knit in Elann's Lara. This one came out perfectly, fits great and will probably be a summer favorite. I wore it yesterday and had many compliments! :)

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Using Elanns' Esprit, I knit this pair of Air Raid socks for my assassinee. They have already gone on to their new home, so I figured it was about time to show them off!

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Eat.Sleep.Knit's May Malabrigo kit contained 3 skeins of Silky Merino in raspberry. The resulting shawl is lovely and was a fun, quick knit. Over half of this one was knit during Friday's driving on the LYS Tour. Showing this off to all my knitting and non-knitting friends is a joy!

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This is Elsebeth Lavold's Rose knit in Queensland Hyacinth. The fabric is lovely and soft. I wore this one once before it was blocked and it wasn't so great, but it looks so much better now that it is finished blocking. It think that this will be a beloved favorite for many springs to come.

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Coming Up Next Week: the finished project parade that I promised last week!

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On our last day, I didn't intend to buy any more yarn. However, I still wanted a hank for my class on Mobius Knitting on 5/31. So, when I saw Ultra Alpaca fine on the 10% off sale at Village, I snatched up a beautiful color. This is actually darker than it appears and is going to make a lovely hood/shawl during the class.

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At Northwest Handspun, they too were giving a small gift with their patterns: a 6 inch, wooden ruler! I really like the idea of this for measuring swatches or when working on smaller projects. It will fit well into my knitting bag. Also at their store, I liked the Ditty Bag that they designed to be knit with one skein of Boku, so I bought a skein of yarn, too. This yarn looks and feels much

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On Day 2, I spent the most money of all the days, and most of it was at Churchmouse. I bought 1 skein of Koigu for the one skein pattern,and some shiny, gold colored markers. These markers are about the size of a size 7 knitting needle and will be perfect for all of the small gauge projects that I seem to be working on lately.For the tour, they gave us each our choice of a tape measure or a

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On Day 1 at our last store for the day, Main Street Yarns, I found that they were using Rowan Calmer for their one skein pattern. They had the designer of the Shedir hat design a pair of matching fingerless mitts. I don't wear those and there were way too many of them on the tour, this year, but they also were showing that one skein would make the original hat, too! I've wanted to knit the hat

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Well, we made it! I was at my parent's house with my SIL, so K picked us both up, again and we drove off to Great Yarns and then to Village Yarn and Tea where we turned in our passports for the grand prize drawing! Whew!! It was so much fun and totally worth the price of gas to do this trek and I hope we're able to do it again. Later on I'll show off some of the treasures that I found and

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Day 3 began very early, around 7:15. K had already picked up her friend C and then we headed for Arlington to pick up my oldest friend, S. We stopped for coffee and then continued up to Beach Basket. This little shop has too much yarn, as if that were possible. We looked from shelf to shelf, hardly able to move as there were many people in the shop. We didn't make any purchases, but

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On day 2, K picked me up a little earlier and we headed for the Edmonds ferry. I live rather close to it, so we figured it would be a great way to get across the water to Bainbridge. We drove south, stopping for a quick breakfast and made it to the store just after they opened. The store was already full of people and very lively. We enjoyed shopping around the store for almost an hour and

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On our first day for the Local Yarn Store Tour, my friend K picked me up and then we proceeded to pick up my SIL. We headed for Seattle and some wonderful stores. All in all, we visited 10 stores on our first day: Seattle Yarn , Weaving Works, Fiber Gallery, Hill Top, Hill Top East, Main Street, Acorn Street, Tricoter, Bad Woman, and Full Circle! We didn't visit in that order, though. We

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I've been promising a picture of the Whisper Cardigan for a while, now, so here it is! I've worn it a couple of times and love the softness of the wool and the only slight addition of warmth due to the large gauge of the stitches. It is light and airy and very comfortable to wear. I wore it after dark when it was fairly cool outside and it even seemed to dull the wind that was blowing. Others

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At the same time that I was shopping for the fabric that I showed, yesterday, I found this linen look fabric that is machine embroidered with large flowers. I really liked it, too, and when I found out that both fabrics were at least 40% off and that only needed around 2 yards to make a skirt, I purchased both. I actually made this one first. It, too is from Butterick pattern #4136, but is

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I have been doing some sewing, lately! A couple of Saturdays ago, I drove down to the local Joann's in search of some fabric and a pattern to make a spring/summer skirt. Finding this wonderful, cotton and lyrca fabric, I bought what they had remaining, along with a pattern (on sale for 1.99), a zipper and a spool of thread. As soon as I had arrived home, I put the fabric in the washing machine

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I have been making quite a bit of progress on my Summer Pullover, since finishing up my Malabrigo projects from ESK's Malabrigo Projects Club. (More on those later...) I have at least 4 inches of the side seams done, but am getting rather bored with all this stockinette stitch. It does, however, make for great meeting knitting as I rarely need to look down at it. I am really looking forward

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Just before starting the shawl, I also discovered a Mystery Sock Along on Ravelry. Upon this discovery, I purchased the kit for the project from Knitter's Brewery. The yarn is lovely and very soft. The iridescent beads are wonderful and I am anxious to get to the part of the sock where I get to knit with them! The socks are toe up with a short row heel. I don't like the way that short row

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Two weeks ago, one of my online knitting groups sent out a notice that a new pattern would be released in pieces like a mystery shawl. I have not knit any of the past patterns, but decided that I would like to participate in the next one. So, when I was at Village Yarn with my friends K & C, on April 18th, I purchased some lovely Misti Alpaca Lace. I started knitting on the first chart just

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1934-2009I don't often write about topics other than knitting, but this special lady deserves it. This is my mother-in-law, Joan. On Tuesday night, surrounded by 5 family members, she passed on to be with our Lord Jesus Christ.She is the only person that I have never worried about giving my hand knits to. She was always happy to see another knitted gift and even asked for socks on several

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I am seeing some great progress on my Whisper Cardigan. It is really starting to look like a sweater, now! I have 6 of the 8 inches required before binding off for the bottom edge. I may have a new FO to show on Monday!

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This month's Eat.Sleep.Knit Malabrigo project contained a ball of sock yarn and a sock pattern. After knitting for a while on that pattern, I realized that it was going to be too small. So, I frogged it and cast on for this month's Sockamania pattern, Lacy Diamonds Socks. I did add a pattern repeat so that this one would fit with the size 2.25 mm needles and the Malabrigo Sock yarn which is on

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Also on Saturday, as we were leaving the yarn store, we came across a lovely, intricate, lace shawl that had been knitted my one of the store employees. It was a mobius. As we were fondling it and talking about how beautiful it was, the knitter came over and made sure that we knew that she is teaching a class on how to make it. We talked to her about it for a while and she told us enough about

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On Saturday, my friend K picked me up for knitting, about an hour earlier than I expected. My DH and I had just returned from a walk, so she was lucky that I was home, but this also meant that I was ready to go. We picked up another friend and headed off to Village Yarn and Tea. We had a lovely few hours knitting and talking and then realized we were all hungry, so we headed off to the

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This weekend, I made much progress on my Whisper Cardigan! I finished the ribbing and all of the short rows on the last section, including about an inch of fabric all the way across the back. I was able to try it on, and it looks like it is going to fit beautifully. When I picked up stitches, I wasn’t quite sure how many it should be, because I had knit the back somewhat longer to increase the

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Thursday was an awesome day! I woke with a migraine (alright not so great) and took a full dose of Excedrin Migraine to ease the pain so that I could work. The caffeine always gives me a bit of an adrenaline high for the day, so I was rushing through everything that I was doing. I sped through many of my tasks at work and then had a meeting from 10-11:30. I always love meetings at work, as long

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Well, that was a short finishing streak! (Only 1 project...) On Monday evening, I returned home to find a package from Eat.Sleep.Knit. It was my April shipment for the Malabrigo Projects Club! Inside I found a skein of lovely sock yarn and a pattern. The yarn is so soft and silky that I just had to wind it and cast on. I finished most of the leg when I realized that it would never fit over

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My friend K and I are planning to visit all 23 stores on the LYS Tour, this year, so I have been planning our route already. I love planning as it lengthens the amount of time that I get to anticipate a fun activity. I have spent quite a bit of time online doing my research through maps and directions that can be found online. I used Map Quest for some of my planning as they allow me to enter

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Since finishing the Baby Hoodie, last Sunday morning, I have gone back to knitting on my Whisper Cardigan. (I have yet to photograph the baby cardigan as I did not take my camera with me to my parents house when I gave the sweater to his parents.) I am almost finshied wit the second sleeve! It looks like a long tube, and everyone seems to think that I am knitting the most boring scarf ever.

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I recently saw an add on Ravelry for Seattle Mariners inspired sock yarn. My DH is a huge fan of baseball so I clicked the link to take a close look. When I saw that she only had one left, I bought it up! When the package arrived, I asked him, "What does this remind you of?" I received a blank stare in response and then, he replied, "Baseball." If that weren't his regular "silly" response to a

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Here is another finished project: Clustered Leaves Shawl. I made it from 2 skeins of Brown Sheep Cotton Fine that were gifted to me by one of my secret pals. I didn't like the result of trying to knit a sock with this yarn, but it made a lovely shawl! I ran out of yarn before finishing the lovely border, so I created my own, narrower one and loved the effect. I plan to give this to my MIL as a

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This is a sock that I started back in January when I realized that I didn't have very many socks left to wear. I abandoned it in favor of knitting more sweaters. However, it will still fit, when I finish it and I still love the pattern, one of Cat Bordhi's from New Pathways for Sock Knitters.

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It may not look like much, since it is all wadded up on the needles, but this is my progress made on a sweater for me made from Tuulia's Tailored Sweater Pattern. This picture was taken on Tuesday night, so I do have a little more progress made on it. Its really coming together quickly and I am working on the sleeves, now. Then I will move on to the body! The yarn is a wonderful cotton:

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This is one of my newest projects: a baby hoodie for my nephew. His mom just loves to receive hand knits for him and puts them on him very often. I, of course love knitting for him, but know that his mom takes little time to wash his things, so I always look for a very machine wash friendly yarn. I have washed my cardigan made from Elann's Super Cable Aran, a cotton yar, and have found it to

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I have continued to work on Whisper from the current Interweave Knits, but it has been all stockinette stitch, which I find boring. I have finished the first sleeve and most of the back. (In the second picture, you can see the "gathers" that make up the center back jus a little bit to the left of the marker.)

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Several weeks ago, you probably read that I was planning on taking a class at Village Yarn which was cancelled. Through the marvel that is Ravelry, I read that it had been rescheduled for 5/30 and at $10 less, so I re-signed up for the class. Before the last scheduled class was cancelled, I finished the swatch that was our homework. I used Knit Picks Hand Dyed Wool of the Andes and a size 5

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Next up is the results of my class knitting, last Saturday. I took a class with Tuulia at Barb's house. She taught us her Tailored Sweater Pattern which is a top down, set in sleeve sweater pattern that is simply wonderful! We had a wonderful day chatting and knitting while learning this technique which seems quite a mess when hearing about it. Once you get in and try it, its not too difficult

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I plan to show a progress update on each of my knitting projects, this week. First up is actually a finished project! Here is Tangled Yoke, minus buttons as I plan to give a gift card with the sweater so that the wearer can choose her own.

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Well, we didn't make it in time for breakfast at Ikea, but we did enjoy ourselves! We shopped through the store for over an hour and then ate lunch. I always do enjoy their meatballs! We continued to shop for around another 2 hours. I found a great, new mat for outside my front door. It's pink and blue and very lovely. I also purchased a new cover for our chair that the cat has been

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Wow, have I been a schizophrenic knitter lately! It seems I get a little finished on a project and then move on to something else. I have many, many projects in various states right now. In my knitting bag, I have my Whisper Cardigan and a short-sleeved pullover that I have been making for myself, as well. Both of those are getting some work. On the cardigan, I am back to about one third

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Several years ago, I bought a bag of Pure Alpaca from Elann.com. At the same time, I purchased a pattern booklet from Berocco and set out to make a skirt. I finished the knitting relatively quickly and then held it up to see how it would fit. To my astonishment, it appeared to be too tight and too long. So, rather than finishing, it went into a “time-out.” Fast forward to Thursday night…This

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Last night I began to work on a swatch for the “Top Down Sweater with Set in Sleeves” class with Tuulia that I am registered to take on the 28th. First, I spent a little time on Ravelry looking for a yarn that I could use. I searched my stash for a yarn that was left over from another project, but that there are still around 300 yards. I landed on the leftover yarn from DH’s Christmas sweater.

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Last night, I was sitting and knitting while watching television. Suddenly a HUGE spider went crawling across the floor toward Thor, our cat. He didn’t even notice until DH put a drinking glass over the top to catch it. At that point he seemed to be overly interested and kept trying to get it through the glass. He even moved the glass some. Then, she would move and he would be enthralled once

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More than finished projects, lately, I have been acquiring stash! Last week, I received my Malabrigo Club shipment for March and an order form Elann on the same day, last week! I have been really wanting to knit something for spring and therefore ordered a sweater’s worth of Elann’s Lara in a deep turquoise. I also ordered their sampler bag for spring/summer in blues. I may knit the free

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On Sunday, we had more snow! It was so pretty to watch it falling that my dh went outside to play in it...Here is trying to catch the snow as it was falling. He did catch the "snowflake" pictured above in the palm of his hand. As you may notice, it looks more like a snowball, but that is how it was falling: in small snowballs from the sky. My crocuses continue to bloom making these past couple of

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Having finished my SIL’s cardigan, last week, I went to my modest button stash to see if I had any thing suitable. The pattern requires 9 buttons and I didn’t have more than 4 or 5 in a size and style that I liked. She has very different tastes than I do in some things. My debate is whether to buy the buttons and put them on, or give her a gift card to a store that sells buttons so that she

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Watching the flowers start to bloom outside my front door and then seeing the snow flurries today, makes me impatient for spring. So, I have been looking to knit in lighter colors and fabrics. However, my friend K has also lured me into taking a class on skirt knitting at Village Yarn and Tea. I don’t have much money to spend on yarn for swatches, etc for the class, so I went stash diving on

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I have been knitting and just plain feeling overly busy lately! I finished a cardigan for my SIL’s birthday, recently and still have not taken a photo, but you can be assured that I am still knitting! The same day that I bound off the last stitch on her sweater, I cast on for a pull over for me. I have one ball (of 11) knit into it already and the fabric is lovely and soft. A while back, I

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I received a wonderful, last package from my Secret Pal, a little while ago. Eileen has been a wonderful pal and I have enjoyed her packages very much! This most recent package contained 3 balls of Debbie Bliss Stella in a soft taupe. The yarn feels lovely, and as with all of the yarns sent to me, I really like it. Thanks for being a great pal!

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This happy sight greeted me when I arrived home from work on Wednesday night. Then, I woke to about an inch of snow on the ground on Thursday morning. I wish that I had thought to take a picture of the same crocuses with the snow on the ground!

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Everywhere a Sweater!Yes, I have started another sweater. Here is the story:Last Friday, I started a new sweater. I cast on for Interweave Knits Tangled Yoke Cardigan. Last summer, my SIL asked me if I would knit a sweater for her. She offered to buy the yarn, and I pulled up Ravelry on the computer at my sister’s house, where we were. I just love the way that Ravelry allows me to search the

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A couple of weeks ago, I signed up for the Kauni Shawl KAL on Ravelry. I had heard about the pattern, Revontuli, from a fellow knitter on the Seattle to Portland Yarn Train. When I checked the pattern out later on, I found that it was very pretty, yet simple. I also saw where someone else had made all of the increases as yarnovers, instead of doing most of them as make ones. This simple change

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Just a few days after the retreat, I finished my Brilliance pullover. The fabric has such beautiful drape and is soft. I've never felt a wool like this. The sleeves are a little long, but I'm going to wear it before I decide on shortening them.

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