It’s hard to be disciplined

I want to hurry up and knit my socks and my EZ garter-stitch blanket, because I really want to start a new project…the Pimlico Shrug from Knit 2 Together.  I got the book from my library, and just as with most knitting books, there are only a couple patterns I would want to knit, but [...]

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Argh, socks!

So, due to my new discipline, I can only work on two projects at any one time.  I’m on the third piece of my EZ garter stitch blanket, which is almost done, then just one more piece and then the seaming.  My other project is a pair of socks that were languishing half done.  I [...]

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Here are the pics

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The last pic is a bit fuzzy because I was doing a closeup shot, and it magnifies everything apparently, even my shaky hands.  But isn’t it gorgeous?  It’s so round (I love a three-ply), and I can’t believe I made a three-ply fingering weight.  Considering that my first yarn was too big to pass [...]

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Squee!

Dear Readers (do I even have more than one?), I have a small skein of my first “real” three-ply (not Navajo-plied) yarn hanging in my bathroom.  I spun it on my spindle, and plied it with the help of my new Golding Lazy Kate.  It’s beautiful!  It looks to be sock yarn size, which is [...]

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My lazy kate has arrived!

Well, I got my Golding lazy kate for spindles today, and I gotta say, I think the pictures on the website are misleading and misrepresentative.  It’s so much better in person!  I don’t know if I’m just not good at perspective, but it seems way bigger in person than it appears in the pictures.  This [...]

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I succumbed

I am still plowing through my EZ garter stitch blanket that I mentioned two posts ago.  I’m still really enjoying working on only a couple projects at a time.
I also realized that I missed spinning, so I started spindle spinning some pink fiber I bought from Black Sheep Gathering in June with a new spindle [...]

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