By Wendy on October 29, 2009
I am madly knitting along on the second Bamboo Sock and according to my calculations, I will complete it tomorrow.
See, on the first sock, I knit 99 rounds for the leg after turning the heel. I am currently on Round 80. I am averaging 26 rounds per day on my commute (to and from work), [...]
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By Wendy on October 28, 2009
This past weekend I taught my leftover sock yarn class for the first time. A big part of the class is all about mitered shapes — how to knit ‘em, and how to attach them to each other to actually make things.
I have a mitered square piece that I started before class, and I added [...]
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By Wendy on October 27, 2009
It was back to work today for me. Whee.
And back to my regularly scheduled knitting projects. I don’t believe that I ever showed you that I completed my first Bamboo sock:
And a close-up:
I finished that last week before I left for Oklahoma. And I’ve made some decent progress on the second sock:
I’m also knitting on [...]
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By Wendy on October 26, 2009
I returned home last night from my Oklahoma City, totally exhausted from a fun-filled weekend. How is it possible that the weekend flew by so quickly?
MY plane landed in OKC late Friday afternoon and I was met at the airport by three of my very favorite people in the world: Stacy, Keri, and Muriel. We [...]
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By Wendy on October 21, 2009
Remember the pile o’ packages from Monday’s post?
There was a little bit of yarn in one of them:
The green is Madeline Tosh Lace — (colorway called “Grove”) .It’s 100% merino (superwash) with 950 yards per skein.
The variegated is their Pure Silk Lace, which is 100% tussah silk and has 1000 yards/skein. The colorway is “Wren.”
I [...]
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