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Christmas in March
It is true that I don’t start or finish many knitting projects these days. But my husband loves handknit wool socks and wears them almost every day, summer or winter. This means two things: 1. There is...
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Out and About
This week I was out and about in Boston for a work meeting. One of the things I love to do when in the city is take random street photography pictures. My smartphone is great for this, since people...
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Brought to You By The Color Blue
I’m not especially known for my love of blue, but a clear blue theme emerged from today’s pictures. Unfortunately, I’ve made another chemo cap. This one is for my cousin in Germany who has a pretty...
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Knitting Up A Mystery
I have a new knitting project. But other than it will be a half-circle shaped shawl, I have no idea what it will look like. I do know, however, that it will be purple. Two beautiful skeins of cashmerey...
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Spring, Finally
Can it possibly be true? Volunteer daffodils are reporting in. Can this really be spring? Fiddleheads, I love you. You’d forgive me if I was skeptical. If I were squinting up the road, looking for that...
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A Few Pictures
A few pictures from my spring: Cherry blossoms have come and gone. Mystery Shawl, Clue 4 I am halfway through Clue 5 on this Mystery Shawl. Last night I committed my first egregious error in the lace,...
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Lessons Never Learned
The last few rows of this Mystery Shawl seemed to take an age (a subject to which I’ll return). But finally, my shawl is a mystery to me no longer. Washing and blocking will highlight the lace, but...
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Goodbye to A Mystery Shawl….and Hello!
Here is one last picture of the spring Mystery Shawl, after it got dunked in the warm water and pinned out to dry. The lace is more lacy. The point of blocking a shawl is to get the lace to open up and...
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The World’s Brightest Socks
C’mon, you know that you want to see the World’s Brightest Socks. Easter Egg Socks. After six years, I’ve finally finished these socks which I started in March 2009. Hey, at least I finished them....
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Back On the Road
I started blogging again in early 2014 to enjoyably pass the time while I was sidelined from my usual cycling-running-lifting activities due to a back issue. Predictably, I guess, blogging has once...
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Starting Off By Finishing
Sometimes projects go right the first time. Often they don’t. My friends, what I’m showing you here today is a project that went right the second time. I began this project in 2004. The odyssey of...
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