The Comfort Zone

First I have to crow a bit!  GD#2, the Irish dancer, here with her fiance, won 4th in the Mid-America Irish Dance competition yesterday giving her a slot in the world finals in Scotland next spring.  She has been dancing her legs off and her heart out for months in preparation for this competition and I am so proud [...]

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DS#3 just bought a new camera.  A WOW camera which he uses to take wild life and art photos.  (This big buck taken at a lake near our house).  He spent a couple hours, a few nights ago, showing me the bells and whistles and I didn’t understand any of it.  I have had my [...]

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Wacky theory #1:  I was knitting on the cabled button shawl (which is coming along) and thinking about knitting in general.  If I don’t listen to music, an audio book, or watch TV while knitting my thinking leads to some wacky theories like–if I take all those toys that Macy and Max chew open and [...]

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Knitting with black yarn can make you go blind.  That’s not the way my Mother told it but it is true just the same!  I am working on the cabled button shawl and every now and then miss a stitch but I don’t usually know it until 6 or 7 rows later.  I have to [...]

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A really good thing!  Another Lavalette finished this time in Paca Peds Piggy/Froggy yarn.  Am I the only one who thinks this is the perfect triangle shawl pattern?  I need a pattern that almost knits itself due to the many interruptions during the day and the limited knitting-DH time-book reading-TV watching time in the evenings.  [...]

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