two 4 one

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sometimes something so unexpected happens that i have to rethink a project completely. and then it just turns silly, because choices seem to multiply like mayflies. i started out looking to knit a sock that was a spinoff of the paris-roubaix mitts but when i knitted it up using the same stitch pattern, it didn’t […]

old and new alike

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these pods are left from the last lilies of last summer. only one type of our lilies had them, and i’ve enjoyed these dried “flowers” which have remained in the back garden bed during the winter. first they were shut tight, then they opened up and stretched their cobweb “hinges” just to show us they […]

So Square Sock

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I don’t know why my heart blips, I only know it does I wonder why I love you baby, I guess its just because You’re so square, baby I don’t care —buddy holly shown here in handspun Coopworth sock yarn for full details or to purchase pattern, please

now it’s snowing . . .

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each year it seems, just when we start thinking about spring and green shoots poking out of the earth here in ohio, nature has herself a big, huge belly laugh, tosses her head, and the winds howl, the temperatures plummet, and the snow begins to fly like nobody’s business. maybe we won’t get as much […]