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Olympic Trials

In 2007, I knit Mark a sweater based on sweaters I had seen in the Baseball Hall of Fame.  He was playing in a vintage base ball league and I thought it would be nice to make one in his team’s colors. I dyed the yarn the appropriate shade and knit like crazy.
Unfortunately, I didn’t [...]

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Or so it would seem. I made the first one from a Knit Picks kit I bought more than a year ago. Olivia liked it so much, she took it from me before the ends were woven in and before the tassels were put on.

I liked making the hat so much, I decided to make [...]

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New Year’s Eve

Our New Year’s Eve traditions are a little different. We go outside at midnight and set off rockets. This year it was snowing and the moon was almost full.

Afterwards, each person burns a list of prayers and intentions for the new year.

Today, it’s back to work and school. Here’s hoping everyone had a wonderful holiday!

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In case you haven’t left your house in the last month, let me tell you that every kid out there needs a tissue. What that means to me, is late evenings at work, making sure that every exhausted parent of every coughing kid has seen the doctor.
My point here is that there’s not much time [...]

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Yes, it looks like someone’s been to Ikea a few times.  But that’s not what this post is about.

I’m using this as a way of explaining why so little knitting got done.
We’ve lived in our house for about 4 years. When we moved in, we had our Select Comfort mattress already, but no bed. This [...]

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