Sometimes I get cocky and forget that I’ve only really been knitting for less than a year. And with that, I forget that each new knitting project I pick up teaches me something new. Cables aren’t new, I learned cables with my Hermione sweater. But the blackberry stitch was new.…
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A lesson in gauge
Sometimes I get cocky and forget that I’ve only really been knitting for less than a year. And with that, I forget that each new knitting project I pick up teaches me something new. Cables aren’t new, I learned cables with my Hermione sweater. But the blackberry stitch was new.…
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No words, just happiness
Today I finished my article analysis paper which ended being 13 pages long. And then I went yarn shopping. You’re looking at 6 skeins of Tosh DK in Thyme and 5 skeins of Berocco Ultra Alpaca, color #6294. It’s kind of dark in my room so I’ll take better photos…
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Logic fail
Things I’m proud of this week: -The 1 hour, 33 slide, 6 page paper my group and I wrote and presented on Monday -The Rae #2 I finished this morning –The 10-12 page research article critique I’ve been working on all day instead of knitting and am currently on page…
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When Big Kids Wear Warm Knitted Things
It occurred to me yesterday that the title of my blog is “When Big Kids Play Dress-up” and yet there’s hardly anything costume-related in here. I’ve been sewing since I was about fourteen. I had gone to see Lord of the Rings with a friend and came home having decided…