yarn and coffee – just a couple of my obsessions

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creating momentum

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i’m going to try not to start anything new until i finish at least one of the three pairs of socks i have actively been working on. the logical choice is the six sox kal victorian lace, as i’m just past the gusset decreases and into the foot of the second sock. the problem being [...]

what the world needs now…

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so karen thinks the world would be a much more warm and fuzzy place if everyone would just apply some knitted, sweater-shaped pasties/tassels… what say you?? 
hee hee hee! i’m so kidding, but who could resist making some sort of comment?!?!
in truer world=”warm & fuzzy” news, i’m working on the peekaboo mittens from [...]

weird and wacky world

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ok, so karen and liz and emmms all tagged me for the seven weird things about me meme. i’m gonna throw an extra wrench in there and tell you only one or two at a time… here’s the first:
i almost always clean my plate. and i don’t mean ‘clean my plate’ like most people mean [...]

on schedule

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so i should be able to finish the pair of socks for dad.    if the first one was started monday night and finished last night, i have thursday – saturday to work on numero two!    here’s the first, modeled by eric.

i cast on and did the ribbing top for the second, [...]

yarn p0rn

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in the last few days i have acquired a great deal of yarn…  it even makes me drool to look at, and it’s all MINE! 
enjoy!
this skein arrived from the loopy ewe, yesterday.  it’s cherry tree hill’s new yarn called sockittome and it’s the misty moor colorway.  it’s becoming socks for my dad for [...]

camellia and more socks!

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so the link in the last post would have led you to this photo…  it was a gift for my sister’s birthday, so i didn’t want her to see it until later that day when it had the button (i love it – it’s so perfect!  thanks to the guy at fiberworks that helped me [...]

sorry for the slackitude

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ok, if you’re not my sister, click here…
if you are my sister, or you’re not – but you’re done with that link, here are some socks i’m working on.  hehehe

the back left one is tofutsies and i’m using the just ribbing pattern from appelaine – the back right one is from the 25 favorite socks [...]