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2009 Recap

2009 was a pretty productive knitting year. Here are most of the year’s projects:

1. Cabled Capelet, 2. Green Eco Wool Cowl, 3. Doubleknitski hat – gray side out, 4. Eco Cowl, 5. Gaia, 6. Kyra, 7. Wurm, 8. Myrtle Leaf Shawl, 9. Whipped, 10. Palindrome, 11. Looped Loop, 12. Beau, 13. Blue Ingenue, 14. Black [...]

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FO: Nell

Darling Nell is done, and I’m so happy with how she turned out that it almost makes me want cooler weather. Almost.

For having pretty much no clue how the sizing was going to come out, it’s amazing how good the fit turned out to be.

She’s deserving of a better photo shoot, but I’m lucky I [...]

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FO: Cosima

NaKniSweMoDo #14
She is done, and a successful knit. Without much thanks to the pattern, though. At least it was quick, only about a week to do (and that included knitting two left fronts).

Aside from knitting each front 2″ narrower, I also knitted the sleeves in stockinette with a lace panel down the center, rather than [...]

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FO: Lucky Thirteen

AKA: The Black Blob of DenialTM
AKA: NaKniSweMoDo #13

I think I jinxed this one by optimistically (arrogantly?) calling it “Lucky Thirteen”. But after much trauma with the sleeves, and knitting four of them, I finally finished and am very happy with the outcome. So I guess it ended up being lucky after all.

Pattern: Basic Black, by [...]

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Denial in Black

After seaming the black blob of a sleeve, and setting it in the cardigan, I had to admit that it really is just a big black blob. The sleeve is much too large and baggy.
And I’ve no one to blame but myself.
I knew from the schematics that the sleeve width was larger than I’d usually [...]

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