oh, you knitters!

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you deserve flowers, you wonderful people! when i see doug tomorrow i’ll be getting some numbers and even though i don’t know what they are yet, i KNOW they will be great. our red scarf fundraiser is off to a rip-roaring success—thankyouthankyouthankyou! and here are a few roses for good measure; if i could reach […]

slow dog noodle

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i don’t know what’s going on with my pre-christmas mindset this year, but i have yet to begin even one knitted gift. my list of hand knit gifts is not long—just three items and only one of them big—but for some reason i just keep thinking christmas is in some far-off land across an ocean of time. […]

a dickens of a yarn

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our red skeins are starting to arrive, yay! so far, we have received the 1-ounce sets and some 4-ounce sample skeins to begin projects with. soon we’ll be able to pack up your gradient sets and get those out in the mail, yippee! and wow, you guys, THANK YOU for your preorders—we have sold almost everything we […]

not so unrealistic after all

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did you have a good thanksgiving weekend? ours was just great—with much appreciated downtime from our usual pace at home. we got to spend a few days in a fantastic part of vermont with family, at my cousin’s home on lake champlain. our first night there was thanksgiving eve and after supper i finished up what i could of my skirt […]