The Comfort Zone

They are countless!  Life is all about learning.  I could write a long post about life lessons I have learned since the last time I wrote, but I will restrict this to knitting related insight.
 

Easy patterns:  I must constantly remind myself that the easiest patterns are the hardest for me.  I get too cocky and [...]

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Yes, a new day has dawned and new knitting projects are on the horizon.  Here are the new socks-to-be in Dream In Color Smooshy in the Gothic Rose colorway.  Beautiful!  I thought long and hard about what pattern would do this yarn and color justice.  Being the creature of habit I am the answer was [...]

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Thanks to Kaidy, who had the Snow Crystals Sock pattern marked as a favorite to make in the future, I am now able to give you this link to the pattern.  As for me, I have had an awakening. 
 

First, Snow Crystals are beaded.  I don’t particularly like beaded socks.  It is sorta/kinda the same [...]

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Winter Sunrise hat is a very complicated pattern.  Each row consists of six repeats of a chart that calls for odd color combinations that can’t be memorized.  That makes it slow and tedious!  Then there is the Sheep & Wool hat, cute and colorful and easy to breeze through the pattern without looking at the [...]

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Just a little bit of pink cashmere fluff!  Lately cashmere has been swirling through my mind.  Cashmere, cashmere, cashmere!  I can’t get enough of it.  So I had this pink cashmere fingering weight in stash and put two strands together to create a light worsted weight hat- knitting confection.  Working with such beautiful yarn, required [...]

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