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Crafting in the ‘burbs

Every year the tiny village of Arden invites people to celebrate the end of summer with a craft fair featuring arts, theatre, music and food.

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Double Diamond

The summer issue of Knotions went live at the beginning of May and I have a pattern in it! Woot!

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How to knit a $94 neckwarmer (Free Pattern!)

plus a bit of ranting, because nothing is ever really free of payment in some form, is it? (If you are only reading this for the pattern skip to the end. )

It’s already been established that I’ve turned into a intermittent blogger. I’d apologize for it, but I assure you I’ve had nothing to [...]

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Progress! Infinity Wrap

So remember my frustration with lifelines and black mohair?  Progress has been made.  It’s about 40% done at the moment so I think it’ll be done in time for Christmas.  I’d write more, but seriously?  I’ve got knitting to do.

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The problem with Lifelines…

is that you have to insert them before you make a mistake. I accomplished the bit in the photograph early Friday morning. I suppose that this little piece of knitting was doomed from the start. I cast on with size 4 needles, which was entirely too small and then switched to 6.  After my posts acknowledging that [...]

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Country Gingham Tea Towel – Update

I’ve noticed an upsurge in people downloading the pattern for the towel.  First of all, thank you!  You are awesome.
Secondly, I wanted to let you know that an update in the pattern is brewing as we speak.  The update will include the fix for the mistake in the written instructions, expanded instructions for how exactly [...]

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Secret knitting and Pumpkin bread

I’ve been thinking a lot about secret knitting lately. I suppose because I’ve spent a bit of time deciding which pictures of FOs and WIPs I can post here. ‘Tis the season for gifts and already this season, I’ve blown it. In my excitement to show someone my Ravelry project page, I inadvertently [...]

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On Mistakes and reverence errors (pt 2)

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” -Scott Adams
This morning’s knitting

in the process of being frogged after I decided that a slip stitch selvedge would in fact make all the difference in the world to the final result.
When last we spoke (the rain doesn’t really count) we [...]

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On Mistakes and reverence errors (pt 1)

frogged.
Recently I got involved in a discussion about making mistakes in your work, whether you fix them and what lengths you’ll go to if you do. Several theories on the subject were put forth. My personal favorite was this one, “If it doesn’t have a mistake in it, I didn’t knit it.” – adrian [...]

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Making things and writing them down are not the same thing

That seems like such an obvious statement, doesn’t it? I certainly wouldn’t have expected to devote so much thought to the issue. I’ve mentioned before that I actually do write down how I make certain projects. I’m even in the habit of making new versions, so I can clarify the instructions in my [...]

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