knitting kitchen

Lately, I’ve been working on several projects at once. As I was racing around the house yesterday, trying to find all of the pertinent pieces of paper for the projects du jour, I cursed myself one more time for being disorganized, being scattered, having too much going on…what was I looking for again?
At least this [...]

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Everyone has their own guilty pleasure. I have mine. I love to listen to an audio book and knit. Short of eating a birthday cake all by myself (I’m not saying I’ve done this, but I have seriously considered it), sitting alone in a quiet room, snuggled up on the couch with some good knitting [...]

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We’re back from our vacation in the Adirondacks and after an action-packed week at work, it seems as if we’d never left.

Mark and Abbey at the high jump, Lake Placid Olympic Center
My friend Teresa who makes crazy-beautiful things, asked me to knit a sweater for her to display some of her crewel work buttons. [...]

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Still busy with the holiday knitting, so there are fewer and fewer things to share knittingwise. After assisting my coworker learn to make a thrummed mitten,
 
I decided to make a pair myself
 
and then another pair.

When I was learning to dye fiber, I made several 2 oz. braids in various colors so I could be set [...]

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So I watched House and finished a sock. I also worked on my Road Not Taken Scarf from A Fine Fleece (Berocco Alpaca fine)
 
my Joel’s Bison Lace Scarf (which is not for anyone named Joel, nor is it made of Bison. It is lace, however).
 
cashllama from Rhinebeck
And then I made this.
 
Years ago, I used to [...]

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