Tag: Yarn
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Cozy Knitting Projects: Dock Street and Western Rose Patterns
A belated Happy New Year! I hope your 2025 has gotten off to a great start. Many of my plans for 2025 began in 2024 or even earlier. It takes some time to get a pattern ready for release. Thus, a good portion of 2024 was spent working on my planned first pattern release for…
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Knitting, Baseball, History, Food and, Of Course, Yarn!
It had been a while since my husband and I had visited Boston so our whirlwind trip to watch our beloved Orioles play, was the perfect time to get reacquainted with the delights of the city. Deciding to take Amtrak rather than fly, gave me lots of time for knitting and reading! I took a…
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Knitting Patterns Launch: Quiet Waters Tee and Upcoming Dulaney Socks by Kim Shaffir Designs
Kim Shaffir Designs had a productive summer, launching a website, knitting for her grandchild, and releasing a new pattern, “Quiet Waters Tee.” She recommends the Sweater Design Course by Sister Mountain and teases the upcoming release of the “Dulaney” pattern. Additionally, she shares details about a baby blanket and a future sweater design project.
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Technique Tuesday – Slipped & Elongated Stitches
Happy Tuesday! Today I am going to show you the pattern I’m using in my latest design. The design is a baby blanket that is knit in panels using a slipped stitch. The pattern is from Barbara Walker’s Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns and I’ve had my eye on using it for a while. As…
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What A Week!
“Jam packed with emotion, this was a week of endings, beginnings, celebrations and remembrance.”
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“There Are No Deadlines”
The past few weeks have been a long stretch of life’s complications and stress leaving little room for knitting or writing. I finished a new design three weeks ago, but found little time to write up the pattern. Hours of Zoom meetings at the job that pays the bills, left me less than eager to…
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The Purple Sweater
One Saturday in early December, I realized I needed a purple sweater. I was looking through my closet, trying to figure out what to wear to the small, family only (due to Covid), funeral for my aunt. Aunt Jane, my mom’s older sister and my godmother had passed away that previous Monday at the age of 87. In…
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The Sweater I Didn’t Plan To Make
It started with the yarn. Back in the summer, I decided to treat myself and become a Magpie Fiber Society member. What’s that you ask? Magpie Fibers is a multi-racial, woman owned and ran yarn dyer located in Frederick, Maryland. If you are a fiber artist and you’ve not yet had the pleasure of working with yarn from…