Yarn-y Goodness

This week I made a trip to the craft store to look for some art supplies.  Of course I can’t ever resist peeking at the yarns, even though I normally prefer to buy from our LYS.  I’m glad I did look because I found this beautiful trio of bulky 100% wool yarns in soft pastels.  [...]

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Creative Endeavors

A most unusual occurrence this summer… I kept knitting!  I typically find I lose the motivation to knit in summer months; there are just too many other things to do.  But for some reason this year I've kept up with it and as a result I think I'm actually going to do really well with [...]

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Wonderland Wristlets

We saw Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland when it came out a few months ago and really enjoyed it.  But, being the knitting uber-geek that I am, I couldn't help but notice the beautiful, delicate wristlets Alice wore.  So when I got home I went to straight to Ravelry and downloaded a pattern from Tiny [...]

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Good Reads (and Eats)

A friend of mine at our knitting group gave me a couple of books recently that were excellent.  Neither of them were my usual reading genre but I wound up thoroughly enjoying both nevertheless.  The first is called The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood (a local author to boot!).   The Knitting Circle: A Novel [...]

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School Update

I haven't posted an update about school in a while, so here goes… Things have been moving along pretty well, despite the fact that we've had several days this month of field trips and playing hooky!  We took a Monday off and went with some of our homeschool friends to see Avatar in 3-D at [...]

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Cool Head Wrap

I have been spending these cold winter days and evenings sitting by the wood stove knitting instead of being here at the computer! This past weekend I knit a couple of head wraps (Calorimetry) and thought I would share them here. I love this wrap! It knit up in just a few hours, and is [...]

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