Archives » April, 2007

A Lovely Weekend

Well, I still haven’t been knitting. But I guess I could at least show you how far I’ve gotten on Valpuri. I’m starting the shaping on the back for the sleeves, so at least it won’t be long before the back is finished. Whenever I get back to it, anyway.
In the meantime, I had a [...]

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Sofa, So Good

I’m afraid there’s still no knitting content today. I’ve been busy day and night this week, and no knitting occurred. But the good news is that yesterday was my last day of full time employment [applause, loud cheering]. After a 2-week “vacation”, I’ll be going back to work at my office on a part-time basis [...]

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Amen, Sister

I hope y’all don’t eat chicken nuggets. Or feed them to your kids. Stop this madness that is fast food.

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Sock Calculations

I definitely like having negative ease for the socks, which means I can’t use the suggested number of stitches following the directions in Sensational Knitted Socks, which don’t allow for any negative ease.
This is how I calculated the dimensions for my test sock, which I made from Cascade 220 Superwash (for faster results!):
My Foot: [...]

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My Fingers Thank You

Thanks for all your sympathy on my Raynaud’s. I hate being a whiner, and almost didn’t post about it, but it helped to vent. I have a few ideas of things I might try – one is that I have (or at least had) a leather thimble that I bought for quilting, and I thought [...]

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