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Entries from April 30th, 2008

Baby Surprise Jacket

April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Finished Objects

Pattern: Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmerman (from The Knitting Workshop) Yarn: Dream in Colour Smooshy in Wisteria Needles: Size 3.25mm (US3) circs from Knitpicks Well, that was interesting. It was kind of fun to see how all these bizarre instructions came together to form the most oddly shaped…THING…I have ever seen in my knitting [...]

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A little inspiration…

April 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Works in Progress

I haven’t had much to say lately because I haven’t been knitting much. Nothing was very exciting. Each night I stared at my UFOs and just didn’t have the desire to knit any of them. The raglan sweater needs its second skein wound, a simple enough task when you’re gung-ho to do it, my Anastasia [...]

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Announcement and introduction

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Update

The blog is being attacked at the moment by a particular bot which seems to be able to get around the CAPTCHA (word thingy) to post comments. I am slightly more worried than I was a minute ago, because this bot was attacking my pattern announcement post in particular, and when I came to write [...]

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Some quick pictures

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Spinning, Works in Progress

I have a finished Janet Lace Shawl, unblocked: I haven’t figured out HOW I’m going to block it yet. I still have a few ends to weave in, so I don’t know if it’s better before or after blocking. I ran out of yarn on the cast off row…but luckily a nice person on Ravelry [...]

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In which I meet the Yarn Harlot

April 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Update, Works in Progress

I can finally join the ranks of thousands of bloggers before me and make the obligatory post of when I met the Yarn Harlot. I was very lucky to have a friend who works in midtown that was able to get there early enough to save me a really great seat in the second row. [...]

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