knitting kitchen

This year I submitted four items, a sweater, a holiday stocking, a lace shawl, and a hat. The sweater and the hat won second place ribbons. The shawl and the stocking won first place ribbons.
As ever, my aversion to crowds dissuaded me from checking out my competition. Although while I was waiting in line [...]

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I told M I wanted a couple different spindles. He’s made me several drop spindles, all with slight variations, to see which ones I liked for different reasons. He kept making them lighter and lighter because I’ve been on a lace knitting jag and I thought it would be nice to have a really light [...]

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Haruni, pattern by Emily Ross, is finished. I knitted it using Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool (3.625 skeins) and size US 4 needles.

I had purchased 4 skeins of the Silky Wool when we went to Newport, RI a couple weeks ago. I thought that I would make a summer tank top or something. I knew at [...]

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I dyed this corriedale in April, 2008.
Then, Mark made me several spindles.

A little bit of time, The Girl Who Played With Fire on audiobook, and I turned the corriedale into yarn I knit into this:

Pattern: Road Not Taken by Lisa Lloyd
Needles: US 6
I’m not sure why this project gave me so much more satisfaction than [...]

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Yes, there has been knitting, but not things that I necessarily want to talk about.

I knit this lovely shawl with crazy-colored yarn because? I have no idea why. Nothing a bit of dyeing won’t fix.  You can’t see my incredible, show-stopping lace knitting. You’ll have to trust me that it’s there. I swear. The pattern [...]

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