and heeeerrre’s chrissy!

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Hello, Knitspot readers! This is Chrissy Gardiner, your guest poster for today, speaking. Anne was kind enough to let me take over her blog for a bit as a stop on the blog book tour for my (relatively) new sock book, Toe-Up! Patterns and Worksheets to Whip Your Sock Knitting Into Shape. You can go […]

the weather outside is frightful

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no matter which way we look, we are surrounded by piles and pile of snow. i skipped the exercise bike today in favor of shoveling—so much better to be out in the fresh air. and it encourages me to do some yoga afterward to get the kinks out of my back. getting lots of snow […]

in which i followed your advice

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i was bad this weekend and i know it—i didn’t blog, i didn’t work on secret projects—but it was sooo good. i knit all friday afternoon and evening on seussian world, decorated everywhere with blobs of soft, white snow, piled high to form all manner of sculpture. it’s hard to tell just how much came […]

take two purls for that hangover

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thank you everyone for sending so many good birthday wishes—i was flabbergasted by how many i received. i hope you’ll forgive me for not answering on this one day—i decided to try to knit and relax instead. in between eating cake, that is, heh. actually, i had a bit of a cake hangover yesterday—my own […]