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[...] I seam it together. It just looks too clunky and too short. I’m not doing photos of the baby blanket until it’s done but I know I will be doing another one that is not so color specific to [...]

[...] ’s a bummer to the profit line. The really nice thing is I have all the colors for the baby blanket that was just ordered and it’s an unusual color combo but it should be fun. But I have [...]

[...] Color Wheel Scarf It would seem the baby blanket is the boss of me. I didn’t like how the ends were done on the stripe sequence and that [...]

[...] the order front, the last of the March due orders leaves today so I have started on the baby blanket because the shower is on the 4th. If I don’t have it done by the first, I will [...]

[...] it can take its place in the queue and wait for the inspiration to hit. I just finished an Eden cap using Vanna White Choice in Wild Berry. I like it well enough but man, it takes almost an entire [...]

[...] Get Away with Murder. What a great night. I am finishing up a new cowl in Burnt Pumpkin and an Eden Cap in Black Sparkle – the first one sold and I had some more of the fiber sitting in the current [...]

[...] my health to try and keep up with. There are about eight hats waiting to be photographed. The Eden cap will be available in lots of colors and I am having fun making it in different fibers. So far, [...]

[...] the brand and get on about my business. It occurred to me while I was working on yet another Eden cap that the cap and the baskets are both crocheted. I’ve been doing a lot of crochet. I think the [...]

[...] taken, orders coming in and going out. Stuff has been happening. When last we met, the color wheel afghan looked something like this: It was just getting started and from the looks of it the [...]

[...] ’t have any red yarn. At least none that is visible. And I need red yarn to complete the color wheel afghan. It is rather essential. My mind briefly considers the purchase of an inexpensive skin [...]

[...] to be part of it. I am working on what I am calling a colorway afghan. It will go around the color wheel. I’ve started with red and will move to orange, etc. as long as I am in the color group [...]

[...] price points. As I was working on all the things I needed to start the new shop work on the color wheel afghan was going on. I thought I wouldn’t post a progress photo because I didn’t [...]

[...] to work through. So, I am going to give him no excuse. I think I’m going to need prayer. My yarn stash exploded all over the office as I’ve been in search of yarn to make the caps and baskets and [...]

[...] people expect to see me there. I’d rather be a mystery than a stalker. I am looking over my yarn stash and how much I have and thinking of all the things I can make. I started a ten stitch blanket [...]

[...] it would be a good idea to take the stitch out for a test drive and when I went to the yarn stash, some fiber I bought  a lot of because I loved the way it looked in the skein raised it’ [...]

[...] and having en0ugh to do any given thing becomes tricky. This is one of the curses of the yarn stash. I am enjoying the drop stitch poncho. I can glance over to my right and see that after [...]

[...] today and there will be a new roof to look at in the morning. I am still in love with the entrelac cowl – I have decided it will be a cowl. I have made this decision based on the fact that one [...]

[...] Dana – The Pattern I thought of taking a photo of the entrelac cowl to show you because it’s different than the last photo I had of. But I decided against [...]

[...] Knit mittens I am seeing the end of the yarn ball for the entrelac cowl. The optimism I had the other day of being able to get all 26 inches out of this single ball [...]

[...] Amelie OK, the entrelac cowl is done and blocked. I took it downstairs before I could take a photo of it but it looks so [...]

[...] to build up my workouts again. I was also going to show you the progress I made on the entrelac scarf I started to knit. I was very excited about it and I was thinking of it as I lay in the [...]

[...] fun and I am making one in eggplant now. It’s sharing morning knit time with the entrelac scarf. I already have in mind the one that will made after the eggplant one is done and I am [...]

[...] I’m smart. It means I’m intelligent and that’s so not the same thing. The entrelac scarf is making progress. I stand by what I said yesterday that while I don’t love working [...]

[...] don’t know how to tell you this so it’s best to just say it: i frogged the entrelac scarf. I’m not quite sure how it happened but it happened. What was this  iz now [...]

[...] ’t really paying attention, I was reading a knitting blog. I crocheted three more rows. 36. Knit math, it seems, applies to crochet at well. That should satisfy the purists out there. The knit [...]

[...] how yesterday I was going on (and on) about that darned mitten not making it to seven inches? Knit math, I said, it was knit math making me crazy. Well, this morning, I measured it and it was 6.5 [...]

[...] . Part of a mitten one of two mittens and this mitten is making me crazy. It is filled with knit math and there’s nothing I can do about it. I knit and knit and then knit some more and [...]

[...] need to have a talk. I am doing the center white part first and the darn thing has fallen under knit math. Which would be fine except it’s a crocheted blanket. The crochet is not immune and you [...]

[...] understand why this never sold I can’t keep my thoughts in order. I have to finish the colorway afghan (more on that later), I have a show coming up in June (I think), there are more things to [...]

[...] and her work space. She calls it ‘messy’ ha! On the needles today is the colorway afghan. If you can ignore the wrinkled bedspread it’s on, you can see it’s going to be [...]

[...] not know what I’ve actually been doing day to day. One thing I do know: I finished the colorway afghan. You don’t know how happy I was to see the end of it. It’s already in the shop [...]

[...] store because home decor is going to be part of it. I am working on what I am calling a colorway afghan. It will go around the color wheel. I’ve started with red and will move to orange, [...]

[...] are four of the revamped style ready to go. I have selected the next four projects – the drop stitch poncho, which hopefully will make it in the hour to be photographed, the cable square afghan (one [...]

[...] that’s what it wanted to be after I tried to convince it that its destiny was to be a drop stitch poncho. That clearly wasn’t going to happen and I have decided to go back to the original [...]

[...] drop stitch wrap or that I should stop calling it a wrap and go back to the more ambitious drop stitch poncho that I had originally designed. Maybe the goddess thinks I am being a wimp for not [...]

[...] given thing becomes tricky. This is one of the curses of the yarn stash. I am enjoying the drop stitch poncho. I can glance over to my right and see that after the one in spice comes off the needles, [...]

[...] Color wheel scarf I got up with the intention of going to church. I woke up. I even worked out early so I [...]

[...] Color Wheel Scarf I’m about as excited as crap. I am really near the end of the tunnel and it’s [...]

[...] Color Wheel Scarf I don’t knit socks. I don’t get the fascination with knitting socks. There are a [...]

[...] Color Wheel Scarf It would seem the baby blanket is the boss of me. I didn’t like how the ends were done [...]