That's all.


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At this rate, I'll feel justified in buying more yarn one of these days . . . ;-)

Peanut Brittle: the yarn is wool, handpainted by DyeabolicalYarns on Etsy

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Still making inroads on the huge basket of unfinished projects . . . three sweaters wrapped up this weekend. One is still drying--its handspun wool/Tencel blend really holds on to moisture--but I'm looking forward to trying it on not-Viviana the sad Mina soon. (By the way, I'm thinking her name may be Kore. Yes, I have a Corinna, a Kit, a ( Read more... )

Both Toshi and I have been knocked sideways by separate-species stomach ailments over the past few days; we're on the mend but very, very tired today, so I stayed home from work and did a little sweater photography for the shop, with the help of Koi-san, the somewhat overdramatic (see first picture below, heh) but basically sweet Lady Sylvie who ( Read more... )

The urge to finish knitting projects is upon me--instead of starting more and more and MORE new things, this seems like a good time to knock off the final stages of some of the in-progress sweaters that have been piling up in my big basket ( Read more... )

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Daigo (whose name may actually not be Daigo after all) says, I think I was better off with the dorky vinyl people, you know?


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. . . well, that took a while, didn't it? Oops ( Read more... )

So, Elizabeth Zimmermann called this color pattern "Cable Hawser," and I swear, in her Knitting Workshop picture it really did look like a figure-8 ship's rope. But when I knitted it, what did I get?


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. . . because that way I find out about such gloriously nutso books as
Knit Your Own Dog http://www.amazon.com/Knit-Your-Own-Easy---Follow/dp/1579128742/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303240756&sr=1-1Read more... )