Tag: year of making
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New year, new challenge(s), new socks.
With 2018 fresh and new, I’ve been thinking about what the new year would mean to me. Last year, I embarked on a wonderful journey, my year of making, and I started this blog to chronicle that journey. Now that it’s over, I find that I don’t want to stop. I want to continue making…
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Year of Making: 2017.
On the first day of this year, I decided to commit to one small thing: “put energy into a making project every day.” At first, that meant a conscious decision to sit down with a project every day. Sometimes it meant sleepily knitting a few rows before bed so that I would keep my commitment.…
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They just go together.
At the moment, my little brother and his fiance spend most of their year more than a few states apart. When I was thinking about holiday gifts this year, I thought about making a quilt for Noah and Madelyn. But who would get custody of the quilt? I, admittedly, flatter myself that this would be…
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Marled Magical Mystery Tour.
Last weekend, I spent all my free time finishing up my Marled Magic. That’s right. Read it again. I said finishing up my Marled Magic. It’s all done. I hadn’t really wanted to knit this shawl. Until I saw a few on podcasts and the like, I hadn’t been able to envision a color palate…
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Home.
When we spoke last, I was about to head home from Denver to my sweet family for a trip south to see more sweet family. And that is exactly what I did. Kevin and the kids picked me up from the airport and I came home and unpacked and repacked my suitcase. We got up…
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Time to myself.
I’ve been on travel for work for six days. That means a lot of me time. While I have spent time at meals with coworkers, time on skype talking to Kevin, I’ve also spent a great deal of time alone. I’ve filled that alone time much the same way I fill any other time, with…
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Saturday.
I had a nice day today. I’m on a work trip to Denver, Colorado and while I had some work to do today, I also had a bit of time to myself. I am terrible at adjusting to a different time zone, but sometimes that isn’t so bad. I woke up early this morning, went…
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Finally fixed.
Way back in the dim, misty recesses of the past I knit a couple of pairs of mitts. These were knit for my sweet little brothers, in the hopes of keeping their hands warm through the winter months. Sources report that these mitts did just that. They were so warm and snuggly that some $%#$…
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Nothing to see here.
I am heading out today for a work trip. I’ll be gone until Tuesday–if you’re keeping score, that’s two days before Thanksgiving– and then we’ll leave Wednesday morning to go see family for the holiday. So in the face of a six-day work trip followed by a five-day family road-trip, what did I do last…
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The art of the photograph.
For some makers, including me, a make isn’t finished until it is photographed and documented. I love having a visual record of my making. Going back to when I first started knitting, I wasn’t on Instagram yet and really didn’t take any progress pictures of things. As I got more into Ravelry and Instagram, I started…
Knit 1, Make 2 