It bears repeating

Some time ago, I had a little mini-rant about waist shaping in sweaters. There was an aspect about that that I did not address, and it came to me just now as I was reading the articles in Twist Collective.
There was this bit of advice from the Mason-Dixon ladies about sweater fit:
No boxy, oversized [...]

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It just might be possible that I’m insane

You know what I’ve been doing ever since my screed on crochet a few days ago?  Looking at crochet sites!  I have a love/hate thing going on with crochet.  I want to love it.  I really do.  I want to find a nice pattern that I want to crochet.  Something that looks good, has good [...]

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Crochet…blech

I am a crocheter from way back.  I learned as a little girl.  And I am not a yarn snob.  I resisted learning to knit for a long time specifically because of that phenomenon that existed among knitters.
But when I finally learned to knit, it opened up a completely new world to me.  I was [...]

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Fleece, progress, and I’m still not sure I can knit a sweater that will take me a year

I got a fleece in the mail last week that I completely forgot to blog about.  I had ordered it last December, I think, and spring came and went and I wondered about it.  It finally arrived.  I got it because it was coated, and the other fleeces I ordered from strangers over the internet [...]

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There’s being practical, and then there’s “Oh my god! Will this ever be finished?”

I’m a process knitter who’s very practical.  That means that I can’t really justify knitting something for the fun of it, if I know in my heart of hearts that I will not use it or wear it.
I would love to knit more sweaters, but the two I have now are really used more as [...]

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