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	<description>alternating between exhileration and exasperation</description>
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		<title>cast on, cast off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever a new knitting technique comes out, I tend to be a little skeptical&#8230; and I end up late to the party. Plus, picture tutorials don&#8217;t work for me.
Recently, I finally tried and learned them with the help of two videos from Cat Bordhi. If you are a knitter and haven&#8217;t tried these, I highly <a href='http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=920'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>tour de fleece 2010 &#8211; finis!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished my yarn on the last day of the tour!    (It was very much a coincidence &#8217;cause I didn&#8217;t know when the end of tour was &#8211; I just wanted to spin!)
I ended up with a very nice squishy yarn. Non-superwash merino. I am a little disappointed that the blue dye <a href='http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=979'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>is there such a thing as too many hobbies?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve given up thinking I can focus mostly on my knitting &#038; spinning as my main hobbies.  Other ones keep sidetracking me.
On a recent trip to the bookstore, I made an unexpected purchase:

Sewing? I haven&#8217;t sat down at a sewing machine in over 10-15 years when I made a couple of pillows. I took <a href='http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=938'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>tour de fleece 2010 &#8211; week one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For this year&#8217;s Tour de Fleece, I&#8217;m pretty much goin&#8217; it alone &#8211; my own personal challenge.  Tourdefleece.com is not active for this year&#8217;s challenge and I decided not to do the Ravelry version after not enjoying it last year&#8230; and I&#8217;m havin&#8217; fun.
On July 3, I bought some Schacht hand cards &#8211; 72 <a href='http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=944'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>from fiber to finis!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished my fingerless mittens!


I call them &#8216;Elemental Mitts&#8217; (aka Ele-Mitts). (A woman from my knitting group came up with that and said I could use it!   )

They are mine, all mine and I love them! My first completed project using my own handspun!  
I still have some yarn left to make <a href='http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=912'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>an ending and a beginning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished the pink shawl&#8230; FINALLY! Geez, it took me six months. I’m so happy that it is completed &#8217;cause now I can gift it!  

To celebrate it&#8217;s completion, I joined a knit-a-long &#8230; sort of.  The SpinDoctor podcast is having a knit-a-long &#8211; Maine Morning Mitts using handspun. My &#8216;kinda-sorta-maybe-in-a-way-but-not-really’ participation is <a href='http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=898'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>taking a moment to remember&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Michael Jackson, who passed away a year ago on this date. I couldn&#8217;t let this day go by without some sort of tribute.
This video is one of my favorite performances of his &#8211; From the Bad tour in 1988 &#8220;Another Part of Me&#8221;.

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		<title>planning for tour de fleece 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about how I want to challenge myself during Tour de Fleece this year&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll learn this or try that.  But I realized that the day the tour begins, I will hopefully be purchasing the hand cards I&#8217;ve been wanting and some cashmere/tussah silk fiber.
I already have 2 ounces of it.

So, <a href='http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=883'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=883</link>
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		<title>fiber friday: rainbow pastel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took a small break from spinning for a few weeks but with the coming of Tour de Fleece and inspiration from The Hyper Monkey, I decided to start &#8216;training&#8217; and finally sat down at my wheel to finish my current project.
This was spun from The Painted Tiger&#8217;s &#8216;CMY Party Mix&#8217;.  

I just wanted <a href='http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=870'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>fiber friday: after the storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw a rainbow arching across the sky.  It was after a rainstorm &#8211; the sun came out and as I was driving home, I looked to my left and there was a rainbow&#8230; almost a full rainbow. Inspired, I went home and started spinning this &#8211; 4 oz Superwash Merino dyed by <a href='http://www.saffronknits.net/?p=856'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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