into the pines

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i love pine trees— i was very lucky to grow up on a small farm with its own pine grove, where we ran over a carpet of needles through its “hallways” and built a fort that grew higher as we did ourselves. seeing those huge shaggy pines of upstate new york state is something i look forward to whenever […]

fresh tracks

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i couldn’t help myself—i missed my snow tire scarf project once it was done; i just had to start another. originally i planned to knit my next one in our better breakfast DK (that link is just for reference; we can’t list the DK in the shop right now), but when i went over to the […]

FO, FO, FO!

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(the following announcement was sent to anyone who purchase the snow tire scarf pattern on ravelry; for those who purchased in our own online store, you may download the pattern update by logging in to your knitspot shop account and navigating to your recent purchases page) hello, red scarf heroes! today i finished and blocked my […]

dear readers

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my snow tire infinity scarf is really growing now; i’m starting to wonder if it will be the right length before knitting all the repeats i originally predicted. the patterns says thirty nine, but since this is my prototype and we’re all test knitting this together (HA! gotcha), i won’t know for certain til i get there. […]