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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

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I'm really enjoying my new cable needle. I bought one when I first learned to do cables, then immediately lost it. Since then, I've ...
Friday, August 25, 2006

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I keep casting things on. This cute little thing (Katja from the Spring 2006 issue of Knitty) found its way onto my needles last night. I co...
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Thursday, August 24, 2006

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I still hate hospitals, although I guess this stay was easier than my last few. Leif's surgery went well and is supposed to have fixed h...
Friday, August 18, 2006

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This is NOT fair. I've had my fair share of stupid little garbage and big scary garbage to deal with lately. And now my bad luck is eati...

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Three days til Leif's surgery and I'm starting to panic and wonder if we really should have agreed to let them operate on his teeny ...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Yarn and Fabric Diet Update

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It's eight days into my second try at the yarn diet. Round 1 was a miserable failure -- partly because I kept running into yarn and fabr...
Monday, August 14, 2006

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After yesterday's post and lousy photography attempt, I got a lot more done on Leif's little cardigan. There's not a lot left to...
Sunday, August 13, 2006

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The world is getting weirder. When I drove Alex up to town for her karate lesson on Thursday, everyone was talking about bombs that had gone...
Monday, August 07, 2006

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I've got this sudden crazy urge to knit afghans. I've actually had it since I started knitting a few years ago, but it's suddenl...
Sunday, August 06, 2006

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I've been wanting a huge garter stitch or stockinette thing, a project that's always there waiting for me to pick it up and knit ano...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

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Edited 1/31/13 -- These socks are no longer with me. They went through the laundry in a pair of jeans and they're not the same. The wond...
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Sunday, July 30, 2006

How Does Your Garden Grow?

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Better than I thought it would! I fell in love with the pattern for How Does Your Garden Grow? at first sight, then had a hard time gettin...
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Friday, July 28, 2006

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It was too hot to knit. For me, it turned out to be too hot to function at all and I spent a couple of days sitting on the couch hoping for...
Sunday, July 23, 2006

It's HOT!

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It might actually be too hot to knit, but if I'm going to spend the day sitting under the ceiling fans and trying to move as little as p...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

The Shape of a Mother

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I think it's supposed to be good news that the Durango didn't get totalled Sunday when the brakes failed and it went across the high...
Saturday, July 15, 2006

Vintage Puppy Dogs?

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Brownsville was having its annual city-wide garage sale today, which the kids and I stumbled across by accident. I got a big stack of unused...
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Friday, July 14, 2006

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I was determined to finish Clue 1 of the Mystery Stole by tonight at the very latest so I could get started on Clue 2. I thought that if I d...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

Knitting With Sunshine

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What seems like a long time ago, I ordered a bunch of yarn from Elann with plans to make myself some cute little summer tops. The red yarn ...
Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Staying Home

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I can't remember the last time I got to spend a whole day at home with no place I had to go and nothing much I had to worry about gettin...
Sunday, July 02, 2006

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It's a Heartbreakingly Cute Baby Kimono! And a heartbreakingly cute little baby who doesn't want to wear it! But if he can insist on...