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Shawls

Lifelines

26.09.2010

So I’m knitting along. Everything is going well. I’m more than half way through and it looks like I might finish this beautiful scarf by next weekend. Sweet. Not. I still don’t know how it happened. One stitch, everything is fine. The next stitch, a one-inch section is unraveled. In lace. Not easy-to-fix-a-chimpanzee-could-do-it stockinette. Lace. [...]

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Dear Elizabeth Zimmermann…

09.08.2010

Today, 8/9/10, would have been Elizabeth Zimmermann’s 100th birthday. If you’re a knitter, this is a day to celebrate a woman who gave so many of us permission to knit. And like many others, I owe her so much… I learned how to knit by watching my mother when I was around seven. It was [...]

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You Learn Something New Everyday

01.08.2010

Okay, I’ve finished a new shawl. It’s pretty, especially in person. The colors are deeper, and more subtle. The border isn’t as bright as it’s showing up in the photo, either. I don’t sound all that enthusiastic, do I? It has nothing to do with this particular shawl. It’s lovely. And I’ll get nice use [...]

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Something New

16.06.2010

I know I’ve mentioned this a lot, but I love knitting socks. Well, I decided to expand my fingering weight knitting into shawls. This little grape shawlette that’s hanging from my crabapple tree was so much fun that I decided to try another one… This navy shawl was knit from side point to side point [...]

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