Shawls are the New Sweater

You know – like how every season “they” tell you the new hot color… “orange is the new pink” – or whatever whim they’re on and trying to promote.
For me – shawls are the new sweater. I have found that I am completely a shawl person. Icarus clinches it. I LOVE wearing it. I love [...]

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If It Were Only Sock Weather

Check out my cool, new socks! No, I didn’t knit them, they’re from my buddy Uhoava Gnu, all the way from Finland!
I meet Uhoava Gnu through Count Your Socks, and was fascinated when she had mentioned that in Finland they learn to knit socks in school! How cool is that?
So, I asked her if [...]

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Variety is the Spice of Life

Sometimes you just don’t know what your missing. You’re not looking in the right places – or you’re just not seeing it with new eyes.
“Check it out, Bud – Mom’s been holding out on us….. look at all these different hot sauces! – I bet she just cruises right by all this good stuff [...]

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Summer Knitting

Not so much fun today.
It’s 114 degrees outside. Oy Every time I look at the thermometer, it’s hotter.
All I want to do is sit, and sweat. And I’ve even got the air-conditioning cranked. Hot. And Sticky. Ugh.I need a pool. I need a friend with a pool. I at least need to run through [...]

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The 9th Month

I just want this shawl to be done.
It’s not because I’m tired of knitting it – I’m still really enjoying it, but I’m ready for it to be over. Move on.
I want to block it and see how big it gets. I want to wear it. I want to drape it [...]

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Entertain Me

Seriously friends – I am EXTREMELY bored, whiny, restless and needy today. Tomorrow’s my day off. I want it to be today. I want to go knit – instead I need to work.Wah, wah, wah. Did I mention I was bored?
So, here’s my question to you…. what is your all time favorite yarn? For whatever [...]

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No Knitting today – just Movie Stars and Pirates

This Friday we went down to Hollywood to the El Capitan to see Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest.Never mind Kaity had already seen it – but we bought these tickets quite a while ago – and since Disney now owns the El Capitan, it’s quite an event – with performers, and real [...]

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I Do Wish There Wasn’t Already Cat Hair On Them

“Something for me?”
“But, don’t you already have needles?”
“How much did they cost?”
“Wow- they look just like your Addi’s”
“Ooooh, I like these. No, I REALLY like these.” (Back off, Kaity)
“Why is the cord purple?”
Various quotes from various family members. Ya know what, people??? Let me be – all that is irrelevant – I just bought them [...]

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Cool stuff, and Black Holes

Check it out – more craftiness from Kaity. Grandma sent her home with a sewing machine the other day, and she’s been sewing up all sorts of stuff. Today, she made me this cool DPN holder!
But, hmmmm, what’s wrong with this picture. There seems to be only one set of DPN’s in here.
Well, to be [...]

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Lifelines

Knitting is my lifeline. Well, to be honest – it’s not as much the knitting (I can’t believe I’m saying that outloud), as the TIME I get to spend knitting. It’s the time. The Me Time. And, it’s barely enough.
I hold onto that lifeline tightly. It saves my sanity.
It doesn’t have to be a LOT [...]

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