From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Franklin

September 28, 2009 Finished Objects
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Pattern: Franklin by Jane Ellison Book: The Queensland Collection Book 9 Yarn Brand: Jo Sharp Yarn Name: Silk Road DK Tweed Yarn Colorway: 402 Serpentine Yarn Content: 85% Wool, 10% Silk, and 5% Cashmere Yardage: 50g; 147 yards Quantity: 11 balls (1617 yards) Needle: Size 6 US (4.0 mm) Size: Small Recipient: Me Trim Yarn [...]

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Itchy Fingers, Itchy Wool

September 26, 2009 WIP

It’s been about 2 weeks now that I’ve been in hiding. Well, not so much hiding, but more like busy doing too many knittery things to have time to blog about it. But I shall talk a little about it this evening. I brought some closure to a couple of knittery things. For example, Franklin [...]

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Lucy Neatby

September 12, 2009 Purchases

So, at the Men’s Fall Knitting Retreat, someone who is a friend of a friend of some other friend who doesn’t knit who has a friend who does knit, his friend, told my friend who told another friend who told me…… about this wonderful lady named Lucy Neatby. (Ok, the whole friend of a friend [...]

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Men’s Fall Knitting Retreat 2009

September 7, 2009 Knitting Retreats

I just got in from lovely rainy knitting-weather Seattle and back to icky yucky hot Houston. Boy, am I TIRED!! Was up at about 4 am and lost 2 hours coming back to Houston. So let’s back up. For 5 days, I was in Seattle at the 2009 Men’s Fall Knitting Retreat. I didn’t get [...]

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