Frogs and Snails…

I’m going to attempt to remember all of my orders of business here. We’ll start with my trip to the frog pond with the South Seas Table Runner from Knit Two Together. The pattern was boring me to tears, there’s a difference in a pattern that is really easy but it fun to watch falling [...]

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Etsy Live

I took the time today and I finally have my Etsy site LIVE by popular demand. I am very very excited. I will keep a permanent link on the side bar so that you can find my site without any troubles. But for your buying pleasure come to The Hobbit Hole. I am really glad [...]

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Death of a Yarn Shop

Everyone clap your hands and repeat after me:
“I do believe in yarn shops…I do believe in yarn shops…”  Keep clapping! Clap louder!!!
*sigh* Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to work quite like it does with faeries. Back in Conway, Arkansas, Bella Lana  (the LYS) is closing it’s doors. Margie ran a great business and her shop was [...]

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A Change of Needles

I have finished the boy’s scarf, we got it blocked and it looks so much better now that it’s been blocked, I was beginning to wonder about the joint efforts of sabotage between the first attempt to cable and the yarn that I used. Though the photo doesn’t show you the cabling it gives you [...]

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Picture This

 
This is all that I have to say today…

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Monday Monday…

I’m not feeling all that well today so this post will be very brief. I have finished the change purse for my boss and we have discovered to “the boy’s” amusement that I am not, in any way, a seamstress. Basically I need to stick to knitting and leave the sewing to anyone other than [...]

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Autumn Morning

Today has brought with it the first real Autumn morning. There is just the tiniest bite in the air, a cool rushing breeze, and I am wearing my new sweater, and a smile. I do love this kind of weather, the kind accompanied by the scent of pumpkin pie (even faux pumpkin pie), distant fires, [...]

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TA-DA

The Minimalist Cardigan is FINISHED! Yay! It turned out beautifully, I’m very excited. I did shorten the sleeves by about two inches due to both yarn conservation and the fact that I have short arms. Also, the sleeves are meant to be a bit baggy so if you have thin arms like me, or thin [...]

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Stichionary Review

So I traded in my Knitting Never Felt Better for the Stitchionary Volume One: Knit & Purl and I can now say that this is the number one book that every knitter should own!
There are great sitch ideas to dress up your bland scarf, make a little change purse, or whatnot. It is definately $30 [...]

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SWAGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!

I’ve got swag of all kinds. Yes, since yesterday.First the husband swag (aside: bloggers have names for their husbands and I don’t have one, my apologies), so yesterday my husband called me half way through the day and completely unprovoked started b*tch*ng at me. He apparently knew that he was in the wrong and he [...]

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