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Heraldic Socks
I’ve finished another pair of socks from my vintage yarn collection. This yarn is what they used to call “baby weight,” and judging by the label and the pastel color palette, “Peter Pan” by Wendy was...
View ArticleThe Long and Short of Writing Practice
Via Mirabilis.ca: A long sentence is worth the read –by Pico Iyer. Not everyone wants to be reduced to a sound bite or a bumper sticker. Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that...
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Pastel Pier Glass Socks
Here’s another pair of socks from 2011, using oddities from my vintage yarn collection. This yarn is the same stuff I used for Heraldic Socks– a “baby weight,” pastel called “Peter Pan by Wendy.” The...
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Feature-Rich Rambouillet Wool Socks
Here’s my most recent knitting–socks from my crock-pot-dyed, hand-spun Rambouillet fleece. Several years ago, I decided that this neppy, lumpy wool was not a failure, but an interesting exercise in...
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Authentic Period Doll Clothes
A year ago, I unboxed my grandmother’s doll, cleaned her up, and determined to make a period dress for her. She’s still sitting on a bookshelf, in her underwear, like many of us who work from home....
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Staircase Spiral Mohair Socks
It’s another pair of fine-gauge mohair socks, finished last week with yarns from the Reagan administration. I still have a small collection of odd balls of fine-gauge luxury yarns like this mohair. I...
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Sweater-Knitting with a Sewing Pattern Template
I haven’t knit a sweater for a long time, mostly because I haven’t been pleased with the fit. I’ve tried dozens of approaches to alterations, and I’ve unraveled every one. This winter, I had an...
View ArticleWild Silk
Yesterday, I needed to make a label for a hat I’d knitted from some 1980′s-vintage silk yarn. The search engines showed me this excellent (but not new) article: Silk is the Bomb[yx] (Knitty, Spring...
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Knitting Down Memory Lane
I’ve been knitting hats again. I haven’t figured out a good way to photograph hats, but I remembered that I have some hat images from this blog, 2005. At that time, I didn’t have a digital camera, so...
View ArticleFaux-set-in Sleeves thanks to Fibermania
Oooh, Melody has posted clear, self-explanatory pictures of a top-down, set-in sweater sleeve that I haven’t tried. Yet. See them at Fibermania: Just One More Thing . . ..
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