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Diamonds
Reference Well, as promised, fiber content! I am making progress on Mr. Penney’s sweater. Enough progress that you might actually get an indication of the design. The yarn itself is ok to work with. I am used to merino yarns that consist of thinner plies (thus, more plies) than this yarn. I am just not…
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Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
Reference You might think from this post that I have a huge case of startitis, but I have a very logical excuse explanation for all of it. No. Really. I do. First off, I have finally started Mr. Penney’s sweater. More specifically, the sleeve of his sweater. As you can see in the picture, I…
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Undone – The Sweater Song
Reference Ok, here some of the ideas I have for Mr. Penney’s sweater: First, I think it should be an outdoors kind of sweater, as it is a heavier yarn and might be too bulky for just wearing around the house. (I believe Mr. Penney goes for thinner knits for indoors.) For some reason, I…
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I Really Don’t Need No Light
Like hell I don’t. Reference There are two reasons why I say that. 1) It is getting darker and darker as I go out for my morning run. There was not a lot of moonlight this morning to light my path for the run; and the drivers in the area seem to like to use…
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Dress You Up
Reference One sock down, one to go. I was happily knitting away on this sock on Sunday when I decided to take the ball of yarn to the scale to determine how much yarn I had left and when I should switch from doing the double basketweave to ribbing. Good timing, luckily, because I only…
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Shake It Up
First, let me start off by apologizing for the quality of the pictures this time around. Caffeine and cameras (especially on macro setting) don’t mix. Reference Progress is being made on the socks: The second Taiga sock is started with the color progression matching that of the first sock (after rewinding the ball.) The Pro…
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Icky Thump
Reference Well, the last of the baby sweaters is done. It is currently drying after a quick run through the washing machine, and I will show you pictures of it once it is in the hands of the mother (just in case she happens to read this blog. And if she does: “Hi!”) I was…
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House of Blue Leaves
Reference Ok, so they aren’t blue, but it is beautiful to see this in the morning, with the sunlight filtering through the trees in the front yard, hitting the trees in the back yard. First, an update on one of my little rants. It seems that there is some information about this subject, or at…
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Joy and Pain
I hope you had a good holiday weekend. Mr. Penney and I did, though I can’t say that we did anything out of the ordinary. I did get baby sweater number two completed: It is about to get shipped off to my friend Kelly, who gave birth to her daughter Regina back in January. Hopefully, it…
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Red, red wine
I know I should save it until the end, but I can’t wait, so here it is: It wasn’t like there was a lot to do on it since the last entry here, but we did go on a button finding expedition on Saturday. Mr. Penney helped me select the buttons for this jacket and…