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Knitting Weather
I finished a baby blanket and put in in the mail for a friend who is expecting a baby girl in the next month. As soon as I walked out of the post office I realized I forgot to take a photo of the finished blanket. Doh! Here is a photo of the first quarter: I love this pattern. It’s called the Llyr Baby Blanket and you can find the pattern here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/llyr-baby-blanket I think of it as The Dragon Scales pattern. I’m using Malbrigo yarn. The color is Whales Road but I forget the weight. Of course I started another blanket right away, because God Forbid I should watch…
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Tube Scarf: Finished!
At long last! It took all summer, but the tube scarf is finally done. (I wrote about the failed attempt back in this post.) These little stitches are no joke, my friends! I really like this pattern. And not just because it is free, but I am cheap AF so that certainly is nice. I love how there is only a public side (or “right” side, as most knitters say) and that makes it soft from every angle that touches your skin. When I first started working on it a few people asked me what the heck I was making, with a raised eyebrow and a doubtful frown, as it…
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Update on the Tube Scarf
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post that included an idea that I had for a “tube shaped” scarf. I was going to find a hat pattern and then use it to create a scarf instead. Well… my experiment didn’t go exactly as planned. But not in a funny “Pinterest fail” kind of way. Just in a boring, “um… nope” kind of way. First of all, it was too big. It made more sense as a cowl, and I briefly considered going that way. But that wasn’t what I had in mind in the first place. Second, it was taking too long. That is actually still part of the…
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Netflix & Chill
This is a prescription that my chiropractor wrote. It says, “Ice 20 on 20 off / Netflix.” If you are a chiropractor and you wonder why people refuse to think of you as a real doctor, this might be something to bring up at the next convention. Yes, I threw out my back early in the week. I was dusting and straightening my nightstand when I picked up… wait for it… a tube of lip balm. BAM! Pain, starting from my lower spine, shot down my left leg and I was stuck in place unable to move. Obviously I did manage to get in to get my back cracked and…
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Shabby Chic
Wensley had to get a haircut last week. I try to avoid cutting his hair in January and February because it is so dang cold, and he doesn’t deal well with the snow. It couldn’t wait, however. He was getting a bit of a Rastafarian situation on his back end, and it was time. I brought him home from the groomer and dug through the winter accessories to dig out his sweater. I knitted this for him a few years ago. (There is no pattern to share; I just knitted a rectangle and fashioned it around his body and then sewed it up.) Unfortunately, when I pulled it over his…
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Crossed Cables
I finished a blanket that I started in the summer. I knit in the evenings while we watch TV and usually I give the stuff I make away, but I decided I wanted to make something for us to keep. It was finally done, so I bound off and shaped it. Then, the first time I used it, I saw this: Gah! Matt says he doesn’t see what I’m talking about and that I’m the only one who will notice… but damn that’s annoying. Oh well. It’s soft and mostly purdy. Almost as purdy as my pumpkin colored toes. The pattern is the “Cross Roads Cable Knit Blanket” by Gayle…
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I Kneed This Bumper Sticker
Just in case anyone was wondering about a gift for me… Ahem… Valentine’s or other wise… Just an idea.