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What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Threads of learning

The women arrived together and their chatter had that slightly nervous excitement that comes of being away from work, as they entered the training room....
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Will Anyone Notice?

"Will it show? Do you think I need to rip it back?" Ask me how to do a neater left leaning increase, or why you...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

A Tale of 3 Sweaters

It’s a pattern of behavior which knows no logic or expediency: I am never so productive with knitting as when there is something else that...
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Introducing Tino

Tino rubbed his eyes, and stretched out a paw from under his warm blanket to feel the cold of the nearly-morning air. He pulled his...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

When do we get to the mindful bit?

Remember this badge which was all the rage on knitters' project bags in the the twenty-teens? I'm tempted to say that keeping a lid on...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

‘Tis better to have knit and frogged

Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., 27.13-17) Far be it from...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

There’s something about Aase

In a change from our usual, this week's post is being brought to you by my recently finished jumper - The Aase Sweater by Hanne...
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Ready to Wind

"The only mistakes we make", we're told, "are the ones we fail to learn from". So what was the lesson here? A mis-stranded skein of...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Ode to My Socks

Regardless who comes and what brought them here, the Absolute Beginners knitting class always seems to end with the sense that something wonderous happened in...
What I'm thinking about when I'm knitting

Love letter to a sweater

Why must love be something we fall into? After all it doesn't sit below us. With you, it felt more like somewhere we climbed to....
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Uncountable Values

For a serial procrastinator like me, deadlines can be equal parts terrifying and reassuring: On the one hand there's the enormousness of how overwhelming the...