Over the last decade, my yarn stash has grown to gargantuan proportions. I could run a store out of my craft room, except that my craft room is a horrible mess. Was a horrible mess. It was kind of sad because being in my craft room normally makes me happy. But over the past year
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An Easy Garter Shawlette
I have finished knitting something. I know, shocking. Sorry to stun you like this early in the morning. 🙂 Awhile ago I was going through the craft room and found a little metal tin with tiny balls of yarn in it, mohair with a touch of lurex. The best I can figure out it must’ve
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Knitting Dilemmas
First, admin stuff. A small note on comment moderation on fiction posts: all the comments are read, so if the comment has been left up, that means we are cool with it. I keep starting and dropping various creative projects. I was going to paint in photoshop, so I made a planet to put in
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Rainy Day Ramblings
It’s raining. It will rain really hard for a few minutes, then slack off, then rain again. I have my tea. Awhile ago I’ve made the decision to get my news from the actual news sources rather than social media, because with the social media you get a wallop of outrage with the news, and
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I made a Russian Hat
So this is a hat based on a pattern available at Modnoyevyazanie.ru, pattern Kosa S Tenyu, or Braid with a Shadow. Here it is, being reluctantly modeled by its intended recipient. When you get a typical pattern off Ravelry, it usually comes in a multiple of sizes with a graph and a video and different
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Ranger Cowl: Andrews Edition
I have finished it! Behold my husband, properly acowled. He needs a longbow. Original pattern is here: Ranger Cowl. Be aware if you start this pattern that it takes forever. The hood is formed by increasing those ribs and at some point, there is a lot of them. The original pattern uses bulky, this is
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YouTube Videos: Get to the F*ing Monkey
Some days a reasonable cup of tea with a single tea bag is enough. And some days, like today, you open a tin of good Ceylon tea a friend sent you and make the whole tea pot. Today is that day for many reasons. Now I shall rant. As you know, I’ve been working on
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Honesty
I am still going through the yarn suggestion comments. So much pretty. But wanted to share. Me, email to Gordon: Do you think this is pretty? Gordon, email back: No, it looks like it might have been nice yarn that somebody put in a box in the garage and forgot about it. Years later their descendants
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Cheer Me Up with Yarn
So first there was buying of the house. Then there were renovations. Then moving during holidays. Dealing with consequences of incompetent movers. (The box with all of power cords was left behind in the house.) More renovations. Deadline stress. Dealing with more renovations to put the other house on the market. (It is finally going
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Artyarns Club – Thumbs Down
So I decided to treat myself to a “luxury” Artyarns Club. It’s one of those deals, where they send you yarn and pattern every month, and you make cool stuff with it. The club was pricey – $66 – but this is pretty much my only hobby at the moment and I really wanted to
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Writing Questions
We’ve been working very hard, so the blog has been lagging behind. Someone emailed and asked if we did writing questions anymore. We decided to answer 4-5 writing questions – business or the actual writing, doesn’t matter – so ask whatever you want in the comments or through the email form on the website. Meanwhile,
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Oh noes, it’s a Knitting Post
I broke down and bought the Artyarns Taj Mahal Shawl kit. Yes, I know. Expensive as hell. But it is so pretty. Meanwhile I am working on Lilli Pilli wrap in Tosh Merino light. My white isn’t quite as white as I wanted it to be, but I think it will be pretty. I’m tempted
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