The scarf

If you are the intended recipient of the scarf, please look away.  No free previews.  You have to wait until you open the package.

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Boy, that back burner is getting full!

I decided to postpone the skull-and-crossbones sweater for a bit.  I’m digging through my UFO’s.  I decided to finish my EZ garter stitch blanket.  I’m on the third piece, and there are only four pieces, so it shouldn’t be too long.
I looked back through my archives to see when I started talking about the blanket, [...]

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Does yarn have mojo?

OK, I’ve ripped out the yoke of the skull-and-crossbones sweater that I’m designing at least 4 times!  I didn’t like the increases and chose a different kind.  I didn’t like the way the neck looked.  I forgot that there is a reason I prefer half hitch (backward loop) when casting on in the middle of [...]

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Yikes!

I just realized that if I make a cardigan with stranded knitting, I’m going to have to steek it.  Uh-oh.  But you know what?  I’m going to do it.  I’ll do crocheted steeks.   I’m not afraid.
I’ve got my gauge swatch, and my charts and I’m raring to go!  Wish me luck.

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Decisions, decisions

OK, I mulled the whole sweater dealio over while at work today.  I’m going to put the fingering weight sweater on the backburner for now.  I’ll try my hand at top-down set-in sleeves with some Cascade 220 I have a sweater’s worth of.  It’s a pretty heathery lavender.
And my next project will be the sweater [...]

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Scarf is done!

Wow!  I started the scarf on the 23rd, I think, and it’s done already.  It took me less than a month, and I didn’t even work on it every day.  I probably could have gotten it done faster, because I did skip several days, but it’s really hard to keep up with the same project.  [...]

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It’s official

I finally decided what my next project will be.  Well, I have a couple ideas for projects, but I can only work on two at a time, remember.  I think I will revise that a bit.  I will still work on only two knitting or crocheting projects at a time, but I don’t think I [...]

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Such a deal!

I was at Ben Franklin Crafts today looking for some red yarn to make a coworker a scrunchie.  I noticed they had some solid colored sock yarn.  I have been thinking for a long time about making a sweater with fingering weight yarn.  I know it will take longer, but I think the drapeyness will [...]

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