Month: February 2008

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i’m still here…

I really am. My life has been topsy-turvy for the past three months – hence the less posting. I have even less time to knit! I hate that! But since I can’t live without my knitting, I’m grabbing two minutes here… 5 minutes there. Plus my schedule is so that it’s barely light when I get up and dark when I get home so no available light for photos and I’m very resistant to taking photos with flash … but it looks like I may have to if I’m gonna get any photo at all.

In knitting news…

I’m working on my second periwinkle beret (yes, in blue) and am just loving it. I’m in the stockinette part of the hat and it’s great. I have about 1/2 inch left to go before the decreases. It really is a quick knit despite how long it’s taking me to finish it.

In spinning news…
There has been no spinning in over a month. :( *sigh*

I hope to have more updates (and pictures soon). I actually have two posts that I’ve written out longhand. I just gotta find the time to type them up and take the pictures.

Happy knitting!

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this year…

Normally I dislike sharing yearly goals, but for some reason, this year is different.

First, I learned last year that joining project specific knit-a-longs is not for me. Invariably, as soon as I join, I no long want to make the item.

So, I’ve decided to participate in a year long gift-a-long, started by the wonderful Marce.

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The goal is avoid that last minute stress of gift knitting. Even if I have a goal of knitting one thing a month, I’m still ahead of the game.

I’ve also decided to join Dave in his ‘Spinning My Wheel‘ quest. But I’m gonna call it ‘Spinning My Spindle’.

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At any rate, I’ll be spinning along and trying to keep track of my spinning efforts. But sadly, I’ve hardly spun anything this year. But the year is not over, right?

And I have one more goal for this year. To knit a sweater – something I’ve always wanted to do. I did consider making The Cobblestone Sweater, but now Tiennie has kindly shared her pattern for The Fog Sweater, which I love very much. But that’s a decision for later. First, I’m reading ‘The Sweater Workshop‘ that I got from the library. I’m up to reading about two-color knitting and stranding. I figure, if I can get some comprehension about the different techniques first, when I actually start working on that sampler, it won’t be as scary. At least that’s my hope.

And so as to not to be completely void of photos, here’s a photo of my scarf-in-progress.

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ttfn!
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