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Tangled Yoke update….I’ve started on sleeve number one:

I was going to do both sleeves at once, but then I remembered that I did the Tahoe sleeves at the same time and I wanted to shoot myself. The pattern says to do the sleeves on DPNs, and I think that would drive me nuts as [...]

This coming week starts my favorite time of the year….the start of the fall tv season. I admit, I am a tv junkie. I watch way too much of it, and most of it is bad tv. And since we got a dvr, we watch a lot more BAD tv. But [...]

Not knitting related in any way shape or form.
A friend called me and told me her husband bought her tickets to see Bon Jovi and she’s taking me with her. We’re on the floor, row EIGHT, and we get to go up on stage. Rhinebeck then Bon Jovi. October is going to [...]

Hey, this is Karen’s husband. Just wanted to leave a note that we’re working on moving the site. The look has changed a bit here to facilitate some code juggling. In that process, we’ve lost all the awesome buttons from the site bar. So I’m manually inserting them into this post for anyone who needs [...]

With the new job starting, I haven’t had much knitting or spinning time. Instead of taking the train and getting an hour of knitting time in, I’m now driving to work, about 45 minutes in each direction. The offices will be moving sometime soon, and then I’ll be able to take public transportation again, so [...]

I finally did it! The tea shawl is complete and blocking. It wasn’t finished without a few mishaps though. I cut out one of the repeats in the second chart (horseshoes). I also skipped a few plain rounds after the last chart. I was rockin’ on the edging when I realized that I wasn’t going [...]

Everyone else in blogland is doing a recap of FO’s from the past year. I actually went thru my archives and listed them. I’m almost embarrassed at the amount of knitting I did.

Mittens
Northern Lights
Hermione Mittens
Broad Street Mittens
Fetching

Hats
Handspun hat (2)
Madge
Baby hats (3)

Bags/Whimsies
Roxy Bag (2)
Dinosaur
Nautie (2)
Chakalaka
PSP socks (3)
Wine cozy

Scarves/Shawls
Multidirectional scarf
Trellis
Icarus
Convertible
Entrelac scarf

Socks
Spey Valley (4)
Fuzzy Feet (2)
Jaywalkers (2)
Pomatomus
Over [...]

Last week, I cleaned out my desk at work. I got a new job and I start on the 2nd. While going thru 9 1/2 years worth of crap, I found a bag containing a pillow. I must have brought it in to show someone and never brought it back home. See, before I fell [...]

Last week, I joined Tamara and Valerie at Tania’s (no blog) house for some spinning. Great fun was had, and there was lots of wine consumed. My secret knitting project was revealed: a wine cozy for the hostess.
Finished brother socks. I tried to make them match. But they didn’t turn out that way, and I’m [...]

The knitting:

Socks that are taking FOREVER, but should be done soon.

The first of the Broad Street mittens, minus the mitten top. Hopefully I can get it done plus the second one by Xmas.

The spinning:

I’m spinning up some red/brown alpaca top, in hopes to have a fingering/sport weight with enough yardage to give [...]