yarn and coffee – just a couple of my obsessions

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free pattern: candy corn hat

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it’s up! click here for the pdf. it’s not fancy and it’s all on one page (i love that in a pattern!!).
if you notice any typos or have any trouble with it, please feel free to email me: noppstar [at] gmail [dot] com.
i’ve had luck with caron simply soft for a novelty item, [...]

a few notes, while i have a minute

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First and Foremost: Season One of Friday Night Lights (the tv show) comes out on DVD, today.
Most places have it on sale for around $20, or might even have it in two packages, at around $11 each (B&N, Best Buy, etc.).  Seriously, check it out.  Here’s a review of the boxed set…  And NBC is [...]

so i have this yarn habit…

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taking pictures of it all makes me happier than a pig in…  well, you know.  but it also makes me feel a little bad.
i’m gonna share what i got in the mail up to and when i got home from stitches in this post…
here are the last two loopy ewe orders that showed up in [...]

hee hee!

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does anyone else find this photo completely hilarious?

just checking.
i promise to post soon about Stitches.  even if it’s just a pile of yarn, as per Karen M’s request. 

stitches or bust

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ok, knitting first…
travis, look!

eric has a sock! the second is cast on, and i’ll work on it as the mood strikes me. i find i do better if i have a few things going at all times and can work on what i feel like… that’s how i get the most progress made, at least…
um, [...]

karen said JUMP

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i said how high?
and then immediately thoughts of david lee roth in fuschia zebra print pants and his fried mullet appeared in my head…
i’ve had a request from the vacationer to post, so i will. 
i finished the baby sweater:

i think she likes it… 
 
i finished the swirl socks:

i got some more done [...]