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  • Not Just Another Book. A Historical Record.

    The Opinionated Knitter — by Elizabeth Zimmermann. I would be completely dishonest if I didn’t say that I avoided buying this book for a LONG time. I figured it contained many of the designs and ideas that I’d already seen before in some of Elizabeth’s other books, even if not quite presented the same way.…

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  • Book Review: One Skein Wonders

    Better late than never, right? Today I just got One Skein Wonders by Judith Durant (Ed.). This book contains a likely collection of hats, scarves and little kitsch bags, but is still worth adding to your knitting library. It’s great for deciding what to do with all of those odd bits of leftover yarn from…

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  • Baby Sweater Redeux

    Not much, is it? Well… I should have been photographing along the way with my various experiments all week, but it was hot and I was lazy, and so… well… I didn’t. It wouldn’t have made for exciting reading anyway. What you see here is the beginnings of my EZ February Baby Sweater. The pattern…

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  • Bowie Borders Meetup

    4420 Mitchellville Road Bowie, MD 20716 301.352.5560 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Visit this page for a map and directions

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  • Now This Is How It’s Supposed to Go…

    Tonight I decided to be brave and try to wind one of my other Lisa Souza yarn hanks into a ball. My daughter gave me that, “Mom, you’re NUTS!” look as I began to drag out the swift, knowing full well my troubles from the last week. But I knew that the hanks from this…

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  • Not Too Hot for a Knitting Day

    It is uncharacteristically hot for this early in June in these parts, and some folks on some of my knitting groups are complaining about how it’s too hot to knit. No! It’s not! I can attest to that. My Bowie group met today for our usual first Saturday of the month meetup. And it was…

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