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Turning the Heel
There’s something magical about socks. I’ve always thought so, ever since my first one. It feels two dimensional for so long even though, clearly, it’s a three dimensional object. You just go around and around in circles, wondering how on … Continue reading
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Tagged claudia’s handpainted yarn, heel, knitting, sock knitting, socks
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Reset
I feel like this year, sometime in the last few months, I got back into the habit of knitting. Last fall, when Joel and I went away for a weekend, I started to pick up old projects and work on … Continue reading
The Curse of The Boyfriend Sweater
Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, there was a knitter. She was a new knitter, had only been doing the craft for about a year, and so she was unfamiliar with the mysterious relationship fiber has with the … Continue reading
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Tagged afghan, araucania, blanket, boyfriend sweater, cables, knit, Norah gaughan, ravelry, textured knots, yarn
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Sweater-ly
A month ago – the last time I posted, actually – I had a very common thought for someone living in Cleveland in May. “I’m cold.” This was rapidly followed by a second thought, one which is a very common … Continue reading
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Tagged alpaca, handknit, Jared Flood, knit, knitter, knitting, misty mountain alpaca, ravelry, rift, sweater
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Falling Out of Love
Have you ever started a project, all excited and gung-ho, only to fall out of love with it? I’ve been a knitter for the last…wow, just did the math on that one…16 years. 16 years doesn’t seem nearly long enough, … Continue reading
Full Bellies
You know that feeling of contended fullness? I love that feeling. I love it when it comes to food, but I also love it when it comes to experiences. That moment of reading a good book and deciding to set … Continue reading
Home Again, Home Again
It’s been a minute. More than a minute, really. Years. But that’s okay. I feel like that’s more than okay, that’s how a lot of my interests and hobbies are. The other night, I pulled out a sock that I … Continue reading
One Stitch At A Time
Vacation knitting is supposed to be quick knitting, in my world. You have lots of time to sit and relax, just veg. All of this travel time to different places – in a car, then a plane, then a … Continue reading
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New Year, New Projects
Happy 2015 everyone! I’m on the last few days of my honeymoon in Sanibel with Joel. Let me tell you, it feels beyond strange to be sitting in 80 degree weather on January 1st. I’ll take it though – it’s … Continue reading
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Dear Past Hester…
…I know, you wrote that letter to your sweater, berating it for not going the way it was supposed to, being part of a conspiracy of poorly written patterns, and generally wishing that the knitting faeries would come along and … Continue reading
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