I am starting 2012 with a little stash busting exercise. My first mission, since I need dish cloths, is to use up all my dish cloth cotton. So far, I’ve got three nice ball band dishcloths. The first two are the standard 45 stitch size on 4.5 mm needles. I found that this required 6.5 [...]
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October Final harvest 10/10/2010 Just used up the last of the tomatoes that I roasted and froze. So tasty! Sad kitty with cast #1 Four days later the peg leg kitty was very pleased when he got it off all by himself. Cast #2 didn’t even stay on 24 hours. Bargain loom [...] Wash wool in the skein before you knit with it? Why not? You wash wool in the skein after you spin it. Mind you, you don’t usually throw 17 4 oz skeins into your machine all at the same time. But you can! This is MacAusland’s wool purchased in PEI this summer at MacAusland’s [...] Well, so much for summer. There are an unbelievable number of things I haven’t shown you, but I have to start somewhere, so here is Minni, last seen in-progress way back in February (!) Naturally, I made a matching hat. And socks, for which there seems to be no photographic record. They were [...] 
The first day of June seems like a good day to begin blogging again. I’ve set up this new blog to help me keep myself on the path as I try to move my new business venture forward from dream to reality. Most days, the path is not very well-marked. It’s more like a deer [...] |
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