Abra-Cadabra: She Reappears!

First, let me wish you all a much belated Happy New Year. Yeah, I know I’m over a month late, but the wishes are still genuine. Hope your 2008 got off to a grand start and has continued on whatever path you’ve set for it. Mine started in an all too familiar and unwelcome way. [...]

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Ho, Ho, Ho: I’m Still Alive

Merry 8 days before Christmas everyone. Yes, I’m still alive, still knitting, and like most of you, still preparing for Christmas. I know it’s been over a month since my last post, but it has been a month full of changes and challenges. On November 18th, hubby and I were voted in as the new [...]

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Still Plugging Away

I can hardly believe it’s been over 2 weeks since my last post; where does the time go? As per the title of this post, I am still plugging away at Christmas knitting. My latest project is a pair of Waving Lace socks for my sister from the book Favorite Sock: 25 Timeless Designs from [...]

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She’s baaaack….

and she’s been trying to post for a week, but life keeps interrupting. So here’s what I’ve been up to for the three weeks since my last post:

Ravelry. I think Ann of Crossroad Knits said it best in this post; this site WILL consume your life if you don’t know when to say whoa. I’ve spent [...]

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A Pair of Monkeys

I finally finished the Pink Monkey socks for my BFF Mel for Christmas and they turned out great. They are not as red as they look in the photo, but a more coral pink color. Cooke A.’s pattern was a fun and easy knit, and now I understand why it’s been all over the knitting [...]

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Pink Monkeys

Here is a picture of the Coronet hat finished and blocking. It turned out pretty well and is going to my daughter-in-law Kim for Christmas. This hat was an easy and fun knit. The only problem I had is that the 9” length specified in the pattern for the 22” head circumference was too long, [...]

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Let the Games Begin

Although it’s only the middle of September, the pressure of Christmas knitting has hit me hard for the last couple of days. I have been trying to ignore it and be faithful to my Dressy Jacket, but yesterday afternoon it reached fever pitch and I cast on for Coronet using the Bernat Natural Blends Cashmere [...]

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Dyed Ganseys

As promised, here are a few pictures of my Gansey Socks post-dyeing. The color in the pictures is pretty true to the real color: a rich dark reddish-brown… Barn Red! I was going for a more brown color, but I can live with this. I dyed these socks using food coloring. A lot of red, [...]

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I Love Gansey Socks Finished

Hooray! I was beginning to think this day would never come, but I finally finished the I Love Gansey socks from the Yahoo! Six Sox Knitalong group. Here they are in all of their ugly grandeur:

You can’t tell from this picture, but the second sock is not identical to the first as I made some [...]

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Playing in the Dyepot

I am a happy knitter this morning: I finally finished my first I Love Gansey sock from the Six Sox Knitalong Yahoo! group, and it turned out pretty good. There are a couple of things that need tweaking, and I’m seriously thinking about doing just that on the second sock. That would mean that the [...]

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