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WIP Wednesday

After an overload of stockinette, I’m taking a break with garter stitch.

It’s another Baktus, made with some beautiful red Zauberball from Heather. This time I’m just knitting it from the ball, rather than doing alternating stripes. Quick and easy, and mindless other than the increases and decreases. I’ve just made it past the center point, [...]

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FO: Citron

Citron is finally done!

I thought it would be done days ago, but I had severe ruffle trauma. First I got to row 9 or 10 of the ruffle (out of 11 rows), and was wondering why I had SO MUCH YARN LEFT. Heh. Because when I was doing the increase row for the ruffle, I [...]

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The Blob

Well, it’s getting bigger.

But it still just looks like a shapeless blob.
I keep thinking about the old Steve McQueen movie “The Blob“. But I think the one in the movie was red. My mother and I were watching that movie on TV one afternoon when I was in my early teens. It was a scene [...]

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New Project

While blocking the last sleeve of the cardigan, I cast on for another project. As if I didn’t have enough stockinette to deal with, I started Citron.

In exactly the yarn and colorway the pattern uses – Malabrigo Lace in “Lettuce”. I’ve lusted after this colorway ever since seeing Eliza’s Feather Duster in Handpaintedyarn.com’s laceweight. I’ve [...]

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WIP Wednesday

I know y’all think I’m so fast that my Open Silk Cardi is probably finished.
But not quite. All of that 1×1 rib on the 3″ front band took a long time.

Still one more sleeve (and the seaming) to go.
I’m hoping to finish it up by tomorrow night, but then it will need to be blocked [...]

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