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night out with some knitters

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i heart becca’s face

and mary and kristy’s faces (and apparently kristy loves mary’s face pretty hard, too!  )

kristy also really loves her chevron mittens.  heee!

i’ve started a new project.  heh.  what was that i was saying about inspiration, the other day?    sometimes you just have to go with it.

ten on tuesday

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my girl missy sometimes does this ten on tuesday thing and it sounds like a quick and dirty way to get a blog post out there. 

i decided on an order for the colors and started the mittens today.  they’re gorgeous and i’m going to have a hard time leaving them alone while i [...]

stash enhancement

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so i’ve been to TWO not so local yarn shops in the last week!  woo!  and i can only show off some of my spoils ’cause it’s that time of year…  i made it home in time to catch the last bit of sunshine, today…  so you all get pics!  woo!
at cornerstone, a shop in [...]

i got yer beans right here

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for those (veterans and non-veterans alike) who were thinking there seem to be a whole lot more skeins here than beans…  i had a tasty shot of espresso, today (with a veteran).  i could stand to do that more often.
there also may have been some skein procurement, as well.  seriously…  pics when there’s good natural [...]

finito!

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i finished my november/december yarn cravin’ sock club socks, today. 
mind you we don’t even meet for november until tomorrow.  and my september/october socks aren’t done, yet…  i’m over 75%, though, and those will be what i’ll likely work on the rest of the time i’m out here (though that’s only a couple more [...]

treats with no tricks!

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so i show up at my brother’s, today (after two hours packed full of sister hazel and starbucks peppermint mocha), and i am showered with treats!!
ok, maybe not showered, but two really great ones…  see, i was supposed to show up two weeks ago, but i was sick and a couple of folks in this [...]