Category: Work in progress
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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…
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Baby, Baby, Baby (Baby)
This post is going to make it sound like I have been obsessed with knitting, which is kind of true, but only for the past couple weeks. It seems that there is a population boom going on, and since my loom that I normally make the baby blankets on is occupied, I am knitting baby…
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Work in progress: Warp-face wool rug
Part of the reason for me to change my website over to a blog was to publicly humiliate myself. How? By highlighting projects that have been stuck in limbo, thus giving me a reason to get my rear in gear and get the dang thing done. This is one of those projects. Mr. Penney…
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Work in progress: So what about those curtains
Well, things have not quite gone as planned. I made the first set of curtains for the dining room; but after I made them, both Mr. Penney and I were not satisfied with them. They just weren’t as full as they should be. So, before I went off to make those for the living room,…
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Before: Making curtains
This is one of the my big projects, making curtains for the living room and dining room. I just got the fabrics last week from Alexander Blank. They are very helpful there, pulling out books of swatches for me to look through and answering any questions that I have about making the curtains. I hope…