Category Archives: Unraveled Wednesdays

Unraveled.

Posted on April 18, 2018 by

Progress continues — two steps forward, step-and-a-half back — on Carbeth. Funnily enough, I am not bothered at all by having to rip and reknit repeatedly, probably because the knitting, on US#10-1/2 needles, goes so fast. Plus, I got to … Continue reading →

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Unraveled Wednesday, 1/17/18.

Posted on January 17, 2018 by

Joining Kat and friends for Unraveling. I am finding the Stitch hat to be impossibly much more difficult challenging than I expected. I mean, how could a hat on US#0s that has both intarsia and stranded colorwork be impossible so freakin’ hard … Continue reading →

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Short row hat.

Posted on January 10, 2018 by

A number of youse guys were quite intrigued by the short row hat in my previous post. Giving credit where credit is due, all kudos go to Nick Davis of mousearmymittenco. I totally riffed off his child’s hat, designed for … Continue reading →

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Unraveled Wednesday, in which there is actual unraveling.

Posted on January 10, 2018 by

Joining Kat and friends for Unraveled Wednesday. This was a hat that I knit a couple years ago. I also knit a scarf. They used Malabrigo Rios in Pocion and Piedras, double-stranded with a navy-gold-brown mohair. Tragically, I neither blogged … Continue reading →

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Unraveled; or, my 2018 year in books.

Posted on January 3, 2018 by

I suck at externally prescribed activities. KALs, swaps, mutual letter-writing; it sounds like such a good idea, such a fun and rewarding activity… and then life steps in and I get distracted and pffft! I’m no masochist, so after signing up … Continue reading →

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Unraveled Wednesday.

Posted on December 27, 2017 by

Lots of catching up to do here. Last Wednesday was the day after I worked a 14-hour shift at my polling place — primary election leading to the special election in January for our state Senate seat (guv appointed our … Continue reading →

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Unraveled Wednesday.

Posted on December 13, 2017 by

Annual warm clothing drive time here. I also made a pair of fingerless gloves for my amputee friend. She can wear them when she goes outside in her wheelchair for a cigarette. Smoke breaks are cold here in Wisconsin winters. … Continue reading →

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Unraveled Wednesday.

Posted on December 6, 2017 by

Joining Kat and friends to talk about knitting and reading. I did a bit of unraveling since I last posted about knitting. I brioched that cowl to within an inch of its life and never got more than an inch … Continue reading →

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Unraveled.

Posted on November 22, 2017 by

Lots of reading and listening to report: The Snowman by Jo Nesbo. Three stars, which is my standard rating for a good book. (Four stars requires that it be outstanding imo, and five stars means that it changed my life. … Continue reading →

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The afghan.

Posted on November 15, 2017 by

I started this project in March 2016 with no particular purpose. I had gotten the idea of a mitered square scrap afghan where every other square was white (-ish). It seemed like such a fun project that I gathered appropriate … Continue reading →

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