I received some belated birthday presents from my family, since I was away in CA last week on the big day. My one sister got me two knitting books, “Nursery Knits” by Zoe Mellor and “Mindful Knitting” by Tara Jon Manning, both on my wish list. But the piece de resistance was that […]
Posted on August 21st, 2005 by Dani
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Well, I knew it would happen, and it has. My current project now has a deadline of September 12th. Why that date? That’s the day of the baby shower for the baby I’m knitting for right now. I think I’ll make it somehow. I started making a baby dress. Goofed it up a little, […]
Posted on August 17th, 2005 by Dani
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i have finally found a knitting group that is close to me! most of the SnB type things I was finding were all in DC, and the one that meets close to my office doesn’t actually meet til 6:45 p.m., which puts me hanging around work an extra hour and a half.
Turns out […]
Posted on August 9th, 2005 by Helen
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Hopefully I remembered my Latin correctly, but probably not.
I received my long awaited box of yarn from Newton’s Yarn Country. This was the deal where you sent in $25 and got 20 lbs of yarn for “free” (the $25 was for shipping purposes). Well, there was only one– maybe two– a stretch at […]
Posted on August 9th, 2005 by Dani
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I finished my mother’s poncho today. Hooray! It’s being washed and dried as we speak (yes, I checked the label of the yarn first, and it’s supposed to be kosher to do it with this). I had some problems with the collar and one of the shoulders, but I think I recovered it decently […]
Posted on August 6th, 2005 by Dani
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I wrote up a WHOLE long write-up here last night, and just as I was about to publish it, we lost our cable connection (hence internect connectivity) for the rest of the night, and I lost it all. BLEEAH!
So, here I’ll try to rewrite most of what I said.
Work on the poncho is […]
Posted on August 5th, 2005 by Dani
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