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Summer Sweater?

May 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

In Texas…I don’t think so. But I did finish a sweater recently. (finally..it’s about time)
I finished my Tilted Duster from Interweave Knits.
I think it turned out pretty nice. I’ll get a lot of use out of this this fall/winter. I’ll be student teaching this fall and sometimes those classrooms get chilly!
I got some [...]

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“Winning isn’t always finishing first. Sometimes winning is just finishing.” Manuel Diotte

October 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Yeah..see that, up there in the title….I FINISHED SOMETHING! Guess what? It’s not socks! It’s not even something I posted about starting. You see, Kae sent me this lubberly yarn for my b-day. D’zined Wool-Hemp Sportweight. It just screamed at me  - “I want to be an EZ February Baby Sweater!!!” Not to be one [...]

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I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life.- Ghandi

August 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

After I posted last, I really REALLY wanted to start spinning that new fiber. I looked at my wheel and realized, I didn’t have enough empty bobbins. I had taken my wheel with me when I went to the A&S competition and spun on it a while, and I had a partial bobbin on it [...]

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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. - Henry Ward Beecher

August 3rd, 2007 · 6 Comments

Well…I got the loom warped. It took a while, but not at all as long as I expected. I warped the loom front to back but didn’t use the lease sticks. I only had 120 warp ends (60 of each color) so I figured that It would be ok to just put the cross [...]

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -Victor Borge

July 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

NO I AM NOT PREGNANT!! *ehem*
BikerChick has a fellow employee who’s wife is expecting and ..I just LOVE this pattern(pdf).  I used leftover Opal sock yarn from my Lacy Scallops socks. I have enough I could probably make two more pairs. I’m in heaven..a way to use up leftover sock yarn!!

This is a couple of [...]

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