The Comfort Zone

I love it when Alton Brown says that on Good Eats!  I cast on for Volare shawlette in some Geelong wool from Elann in a lavender color.  After finishing charts A, B, and C I have decided that this very pleasant knit is marred by the lavender color.  I’m not fond of lavender!  Oh bother!
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Now and then I get a bee in my bonnet and branch out into things not suggested by the particular pattern I’m using.  Okay, not now and then–more often than I like to admit.  I don’t know what it is with me.  I’m not unhappy with patterns as written I’m just, um, um, fickle. 
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I started a prayer shawl long ago–two years ago to be exact!  I have worked AT it all this time and have even featured it in blog posts to show what a slacker I am.  I have decided to finish it in honor of the cold winter we have ahead. 
Note:  Sure, we are going [...]

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New yarn came in yesterday and brought thoughts of new projects.  One is already started using Paca Peds alpaca blend sock yarn in the Carribean Chocolate colorway and Debbie Decker’s Simple Garter Diamond shawlette pattern.  The other Paca Peds in Froggy-Piggy will languish in stash while I decide if I really want to do another [...]

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Second verse of the “I Did It My Way” song is Colonnade.  My apologies to Stephen West whose designs I love.  Stephen, I promise to do it your way next time.  The thing is, I like Colonnade my way, with a more uniform pattern!  It turned out better than I hoped and it is a [...]

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