Polar!

My two impulse-bought-bags of Rowan Polar came in today, and far from being humbled by it, now I want every color they make I got them here at this evil evil store who’s selling it at half retail with FREE SHIPPING!!! I got a bag in Lettuce and a Bag in Dark Truffle.. [...]

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Trigger Finger Mittens!

My boyfriend goes deer hunting every year in Wisconsin, and he asked me to make him some mittens. Not just any mittens, Custom WISCONSIN-WINTER-TRIGGER-FINGER-MITTENS!It gets pretty damn cold in Wisconsin in November, so I made them out of tightly-knit Lambs Pride Bulky, and lined them with Angora, which is supposedly 8 times warmer than wool, [...]

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Spinning!

(Because I need another hobby )At the Knit Out last month I learned how to spin with a drop spindle, and came home and ordered a whole kit from This Seller’s ebay store. For some reason paypal diverted my order from my normal mailing address to my old address (my moms house), but [...]

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Adding more life-stuff to the knitblog

I have another journal, on Livejournal, it’s linked over there *points to sidebar* but I figure that I like reading knitblogs with a little more life in them, so I’m going to start adding more to mine, even if sometimes I might x-post from LJ.
The weather has been gorgeous here! Sunny, warm with a [...]

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Chinese Luck Dragon Scarf

So remember I mentioned that I won that scarf contest, but didn’t know if I could post the picture because it’s going to be in the December Interweave Knits? Well, they’re not publishing the pattern (it’s just a picture with a blurb, which is cool too) so I’m free to do with it as I [...]

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knitting geeks

hehe so while on the girlfromauntie site looking up rogue stuff, I found this, and it cracked me up “This also might explain the plot, so to speak, in the hood of Rogue. See the part of the hood where the cables stop interweaving as a mesh, and pairs of cables twist for a [...]

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Starting Rogue

I finally found the perfect yarn for my Rogue Cardigan! Yay! It’s exactly the color I wanted, and the texture and price was perfect too It’s Galway Highland Heather in a lovely Rust color I was thinking of doing it in a donegal tweed, but after I got to feel a [...]

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