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Knitting Tip(s)

nobody@vox.com(Phisch) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:28:59 -0500

A brilliant person on knittinghelp.com's forums shared something awesome with respect to knitting something complicated like lace. It's recommended that you use a lifeline at each pattern repeat. Basically, that's a thinner thread you string thr...

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Interweave Knits Summer 2008

nobody@vox.com(Phisch) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:39:11 -0500

The preview is up! You're wondering why on earth I bother posting about it. Hehe. I've loved this magazine and it's the one I gravitate to since I started knitting because I usually like more than two of the designs in them. The one issue I didn'...

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Butterfly Tunic Progress

nobody@vox.com(Phisch) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:30:42 -0500

Wow! I'm starting to see things happening. I dropped the needle size to 6 (from 8) because the lace pattern should become more defined. This may matter since the yarn hasn't got the same fuzzy halo as Rowan Kidsilk. There was an oh-so-brief momen...

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Of Course: New Projects

nobody@vox.com(Phisch) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:56:19 -0500

So, thanks Anna! My birthday gift arrived late last week. I got myself several balls of Elann Den-M-Nit in black, enough to make an Indigo Ripples Skirt. I really wanted to get the darkest indigo color, but I never had the moolah to get it while ...

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Looking Forward

nobody@vox.com(Phisch) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:12:23 -0500

I'm getting excited (no, not about the sweater, though there is that)! This Thursday, I get to go to our church's women's retreat. I'm hitching a ride with three other gals I know and am looking forward to lots of knitting time (ahem) and getting ...

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Gathered Pullover

nobody@vox.com(Phisch) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:43:33 -0500

Gathered Pullover Originally uploaded by Phisch It's done! And just in time for summer. LOL! Well, maybe I'll win the lotto and we can go to Australia or New Zealand just so I can have an excuse to wear this! Yes, I am excited. I put it...

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Moderne Baby Blanket

nobody@vox.com(Phisch) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:33:34 -0500

Yarn: Lion Brand Cotton-Ease in lime, almond, lake and maize. The panels in the color lime needed 3 balls, the rest only two. Knit with size 8 needles (pattern calls for size 6 and a DK weight yarn, I believe). This is my third Moderne Baby Bla...

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New Books

nobody@vox.com(Phisch) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:27:12 -0500

Wow...Amazon delivered and we received both sets of book orders on the same day. It was like Christmas! Hubby has been wanting to read The Bourne Identity for a while now and decided to go with paperback once he found that hardbound was never made...

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Gathered Pullover

nobody@vox.com(Phisch) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:15:36 -0500

Gathered Pullover Originally uploaded by Phisch This yarn was supposed to be a Central Park Hoodie but I changed my mind and am making Gathered Pullover instead since I wasn't getting the right gauge without the yarn looking to "holey" fo...

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Knitting in the Bible

nobody@vox.com(Phisch) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:03:15 -0500

A post in which I seek, once again, to justify my obsession hobby by quoting the bible. Nah...someone else put together a nice compendium. Saves me the time. Now on to my next CPH...

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