May 2009

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Not so Much With the Knitting

By Wendy on May 31, 2009

It has been a non-knitting weekend here, I’m sorry to say.
I’ve apparently cracked a tooth or some equally odious dental event has taken place. The bottom line is that I’ve got pain bad enough to make it impossible for me to concentrate on anything, so the knitting has been set aside for now.
I’ve got all [...]

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Train Delays Are Good For Something

By Wendy on May 28, 2009

There were some issues with track switching or something like that on my commute this morning so I had some extra knitting time. Behold the formerly unnamed sock:

Yes, this baby now has a name, courtesy of one of the suggestions in the comments: Catnip Socks. (Thanks, Andrea H.!)
And Finnian’s Gansey is coming along nicely, too. [...]

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New Stuff

By Wendy on May 27, 2009

About yesterday’s mystery project — some of you are correct. It is a gansey.
To be more specific, it is a wee gansey, for a wee person. From this point forward it will be called “Finnian’s Gansey” because the wee person for whom the gansey is being made is named . . . wait for it [...]

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Something Different

By Wendy on May 26, 2009

I had one of those days yesterday when I couldn’t settle down to anything remotely resembling productive knitting. I hate when this happens.
I had made good progress on my second sock so thought I’d start a non-sock project (shocking, I know) and save the sock for commuter knitting. (I finished the second sock on the [...]

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