Tag: yearofmaking
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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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Handmade Holiday
Happy holidays! I was a busy little bee over the last month or so, and now I can finally talk about what I’ve been up to! I’ll try not to drone on and on, but you can always find more info about my knits on their respective project pages on Ravelry. My first holiday finish…
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Making Christmas.
I usually don’t make anything for myself around the holidays. Last year I was very preoccupied with finishing up the quilt I made for Judge and Crystal: Gorgeous, huh? This time last year, I wasn’t finished with it. This year, I was a wee bit more on my game. I was thinking that I didn’t…
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Finally festive.
I’ve been really slow to get into the holiday spirit this year. Between travelling and car shopping, it feels like I haven’t been able to catch my breath yet. But with less than two weeks until Christmas vacation, if I was going to deck the halls, I had better start now. This week at work…
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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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