The Comfort Zone

I thought Shallow Tri Shawl was going to be an easy knit.  Was I ever wrong! 
There were those deceptive little “ssp” stitches—slip two stitches then purl them through the back from left to right.  My mind doesn’t work that way.  I’m strictly a right to left kind of girl when it comes to knitting.  [...]

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Continuing to knit on Meandering Vines Shawl, which is a l-o-o-n-g project, gives me time to think about things that pop into my mind but that don’t really mean anything (at least to anyone but me).  Does that happen to you—that involuntary thought that has you wondering a few minutes later, “I wonder why that [...]

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My friend and blogging buddy Anne in Ireland at Amber Purls (and Knits Too), sent me an email this morning to tell me that her DH passed away very suddenly and unexpectedly.  I am saddened by her loss and just wanted to inform any of you who have dropped by her site that she is [...]

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Twilly’s a dilly!  I enjoyed the knitting which produced just what it is billed as—a neckerchief and not much more.  It will be pretty around the neck of a shirt or sweater, but by no stretch of the imagination will it serve as a shawlette.  Still—a fun knit!
I looked at the calendar this morning and [...]

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I have been making good progress on Meandering Vines Shawl with 27 unblocked inches of the needed 70 inches finished and also completed around 1/3rd of Twilly Neckerchief.  Sometimes, however, you have to have an excuse for the intensive knitting required by shawl projects.  I have a good excuse!
Yesterday I bent over to pick up [...]

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