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Remember this?

Scotland, the sweater
I put it aside in the beginning of December in order to make the most out of the holidays. When I picked it back up in April, I was happily knitting along until…
I noticed that I only had 4 balls of yarn left.  When it comes to knitting 400 odd stitches on [...]

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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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Netflix was kind enough to send us the first disk of Lord Peter Whimsey, The Nine Tailors. So despite the fact that my children have taken to giving the dust bunnies names, I spent two hours after work to watch and knit.
I knit 7 rows (of 406 stitches) for a total of 2842 stitches.  At [...]

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First order of business: As Bezzie pointed out, there is actually a “Knit a Sweater in the Month of November” movement.  The acronym is NaKniSweMo and its home is over at KnitGrrl’s blog. Apparently, this thing has been going on every November since 2007. Did I say I’m not online much?
According to Shannon Okey of  [...]

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