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It’s just another Saturday night at the homestead! I decided it’s been a while since I photographed the Brown Ripple Afghan, so I thought I’d do an update. Sir Goofnut, aka my 6-year-old son, decided that he needed to get in on the action. I laid the blanket out on the floor last weekend, and…
Yay! I scored another one on eBay! This time it was Alice Starmore’s Tudor Roses. Now, I’m not a huge fan of Starmore in general, and I know there is some controversy about her and her designs, but I just love the designs in this particular book I know the sweaters are not exactly shapely…
So I couldn’t help it. I had to take a sanity break from my big brown afghan. I decided to cast on for a Calorimetry headband, just to give myself something new to stare at for a day or two. Now I know why so many people have made them. They’re a quick knit, and…
I got a little surprise today! Knitty.com, in this issue’s Yosemite pattern, linked back to my tutorial on Magic Loop. How cool is that?? Many thanks to the pattern author. Unfortunately, the way I found out about it was that one of those knitting spam sites had confiscated the contents of this issue of Knitty,…
Ok, I’ve been trolling the interwebs for a little while now, on a quest for a couple of back issues of Interweave Knits. One of the ones high on my list has been Winter 2003, in which there are good articles about gloves and thumb gussets, as well as some comfy unisex slipper sock things.…