The Comfort Zone

 
 Lucy socks and Morehouse Farms’ Chesapeake Poncho.  Also, STR in Lunasea and STR Silkie in Sun Stone
A few packages have been delivered to Chez Comfort Zone this week.  After the third arrived DH asked sweetly, “How many more are coming?”  “Only two.  Small ones.  Really small!”  He heaved a sigh of relief and walked away [...]

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Knitting socks in the summer just makes sense when you consider the heat generated by holding skeins of Malabrigo in your lap while you knit 80 inches of shawl.  I tried clipping my project bag to my belt, or leaving everything except the project in my knitting basket and pulling yarn from there—but the sheer [...]

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The time has come to replace our photo in the Interweave Knits ad space.  Someone should have been taking pictures of me taking pictures!  I had all the props, the background, the lighting, and last but not least—the subject—needles.  I was creative and unrestrained.  I was wearing my art photographer’s hat, (by the way, hats [...]

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By June every year I begin looking for the one BIG Christmas gift that I will knit for all the ladies in the family, and all the men in the family.  Haven’t made any decisions on the men yet, but I have more than enough to keep me busy female-wise.  I found the Cowgirl’s Prayer [...]

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