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Knitting In The Wild
Our family took a short vacation to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area about 5 minutes after school was out for the year. Actually, it was two days after, but it felt like 5 minutes. We travelled with my...
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Knitting Round Up
Can I just tell you how incredibly pleased I am with these sock blockers? For many many years I used homemade sock blockers. They worked ok, but it was slow going on the drying process as these were...
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Making A List, Checking It Twice
So here’s the deal. I’m not a “work on one project at a time” kind of gal. I like to have several projects going at once so that I can work on whatever I have the brain space for. That means I...
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A Sweater Place
It struck me the other day when someone asked me what I liked most to knit, that I was in a sweater place. Most of what has been on my needles the last few months has been sweaters. There’s been this...
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Hello 2018
I did a little experiment this fall. I wrote down in my planner every project I was working on or planned to work on. I wrote the start date, end date, if the ends were woven in, and if I...
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On Your Mark, Get Set, Knit!
Is it Friday yet? It feels like a Friday. January kind of hit me in one fell swoop this week – and here we are more than half-way through the month. Oiy! Here’s What’s on My Mind… February is going...
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There’s A Season For That
Have you ever noticed how people tend to get married or have babies in waves? We’re in the middle of one of those waves. Several of our friends and family members are having babies right now. Between...
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Optimistically Speaking
Every year my Optimist Club does a hat knitting challenge. It started many years ago when I had a hair-brained scheme to get the (mostly) older men in my Optimist Club to do a project for the local...
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Close Call
My Ravellenics project was going along as easily as a curler’s stone on ice right up until last week. Apparently spending a long time on the phone at work with my head cocked at an angle holding my...
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Process Vs. Product
Several times over the last few weeks I’ve had the conversation about whether I am a process knitter or a product knitter. The conversation is fascinating to me because I cannot imagine knitting any...
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Miles And Miles Of Stockinette
I’m at that point in my projects where I am knitting what feels like miles and miles of white stockinette. It’s the knitting equivalent of snow blindness! I have two sweaters on the needles right...
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All The News That’s Fit To Print
Due to a recent announcement that Area Voices will be shutting down, this blog will move to https://knittingupnorth.com/ Please head over there to follow me! You will not see my blog posts on any...
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