Tag: shawl
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Shawl of joining.
I’ve been with Kevin almost as long as I’ve been knitting and I’ve known two things since pretty early on:1. I wanted to marry him.2. I wanted to knit a big, fancy wedding shawl. Check, check! We got married on May 10 at Norris Dam State Park in Tennessee. The wedding was everything I hoped…
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One stitch at a time.
I’ll just come out and say it – I’m getting married! We’re tying the knot in May, just a few months away now. Of course, the first question that a lot of folks ask me is whether I’m making anything for the wedding and… of course I am! I am making my dress, a tie…
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A lost blog post?
I wrote this post back on February 29, right before I left for Denver. I appartenly never hit publish, but I hate to lose all this chatter, so here you go! At this time last week, I had three (knitting) works in progress. Today, I have six. Things just… happened this week. And no, I…
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Marley.
Back in the fall, I had the idea that I wanted a big, brioche shawl in a neutral-ish color. I wound up at the Shennendoah Fiber Festival with a friend and we found the yarn. Low contrast, pink and cream, neutral enough, speckled in the best way… just perfect. I snapped it up and with…
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After the thrill is gone.
Sometimes it feels so good to really get so into a knit that you can’t think about anything else. You just want to get back to it, just one more row, one more repeat. That’s how I felt about Winter Honey. I just could not stop knitting it. And once I started really obsessively working…
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Can’t put it down.
As I mentioned when last we spoke, I cast on a new shawl. I have honestly not thought about much else since. Well, that’s not completely true. I’ve though about a lot of things, but I haven’t knit much else. Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of joining a friend for the Shenandoah Valley Fiber…
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Yarn chicken.
Yarn chicken is not a game I play often. I had a rousing match with a skein of yarn recently — and lost. I didn’t realize we were even playing until I was almost out of wool. The project that served for the playing field was my Lumen. I recently was quite inspired to pick…
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Into the Void.
Well it took a month to knit, two weeks to finally block, and four days to dry. She’s done and she is glorious. This is Void, a beautiful pattern by Melanie Berg. The pattern is very well written and I can see how so many people enjoyed knitting it. I did follow her note in…
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Go with it.
I’ve sat down to write this post a dozen times over the last few days. I’m feeling a bit scatterbrained with my making and can’t really seem to synthesize all that’s happening into anything coherent. Let’s come at this from a different angle. The current state of affairs, in pictures: Happy making!
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The waiting is the hardest part.
Since I’ve been home from our spring break trip, I’ve been itching for my favorite parts of spring and summer. Fresh veggies, farmer’s markets, canning… you get the gist. All the way home, I expected it to be time to get planting and time to hit up the farmer’s markets. Maryland is hot, right? Surely…
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