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Three projects
Project one: The Love of Spiders (a Charlotte's Web reference)
A shawl from a gradient kit that caught my eye in I think a Ravelry ad. Ravelry ads are probably a good example of why I think I won't mind if advertising gets better at targetting me; I would really much much rather see ads for things that I would actually want, rather than ads for ( Read more... ) -
Anklet socks
These were a project to use up about half a skein of red-brown yarn that had been used in the two-color socks finished earlier this year. The V-stitch is interesting, but fiddly enough that it required looking at for most of the rows. No putting my hands on autopilot for this one - even more so than a two-color pattern, oddly.
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socks, but not knitting
Today's random email, filed with the customer service page for Bombas socks. Gender-based fashion marketing is probably the worst of places to try a crusade, but I really was disappointed. :)
Having bought socks from you in the past, I get the marketing emails. Today I got mail advertising bright new colors for spring! Yay! But when I ( Read more... ) -
Just past the bell
I was working on these over Christmas, but didn't finish them until a few days ago. First on the pile for next year!
The pattern was interesting, and I really enjoyed the yarn. Cute colors (the colorway is named "Let's Go Fly a Kite", so the song from Mary Poppins kept getting stuck in my head), and a very nice feel.
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Dream Management
Under normal circumstances, I run on insufficient sleep and have a comfy bed. Bedtime involves reading a bit on the nightlight-Kindle until I'm too sleepy to keep my eyes open, and then falling promptly asleep. Because of that, and also I assume because of generally good luck in how my sleep settings are configured, I don't have a lot of ( Read more... ) -
Leafy Green Shawl
At the yarn store in Utrecht (I really need to finish writing+captioning up this trip), I bought some single-ply laceweight green yarn, because while I've made a number of lace shawls, none of them have been green. When I came home, I noted that I have done this twice previously, about every two years.
So as to avoid buying more green ( Read more... )
