The Comfort Zone

The Thesaurus defines wishy-washy as weak in willpower.  That’s me!  In the last post I said I wanted the wonderful wool-silk-bamboo combination to be another Cabled Button Shawl–then I slept.  While I slept I dreamed a shawl that needs to be knitted and the result is “Cuddle My Shoulders.”  As I started the morning yesterday [...]

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I have some new Elann Incense, a mixture of wool, silk and bamboo in Rich Coffee, and while I am working on the Butterfly Shawl by Danielle Wilson on Ravelry in a pale blue Marl, Incense is chewing a hole in my knitting bag trying to get out.  It tells me it wants to be [...]

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Here is the Half Circle Shawl with a slight modification–a ruffle.  After a lot of playing around with the suggested lace edging I decided that I did not like it (Thanks Darcy for helping me decide).  The shawl was almost entirely knitted during work hours in the office.  Now I have to find another office [...]

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There is a lot in my knitting bag right now and I keep moving it around–rotating one project with another and trying to settle my knitting soul for the year ahead.   This is a time of the year when nothing else is settled in my life.  My accounting life includes W-2s, 1099s, year-end reports, and [...]

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I’m bad.  I’m really bad.  Bad beyond New Year’s resolution repair!  I have been working on the box stitch sock which I am calling Rib Wrap Socks and finished the first one.  I was able to recapture the pattern so I can write it for use as the Comfort Zone February newsletter freebie. 
Beyond that the Amsterdam shawl got [...]

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