Current total of handmade holiday gifts fully and totally completed (meaning ends woven in, seam holes stitched up, etc): zero. New, non-holiday project cast on/started: two. Total balls of yarn ordered from the Knit Picks sale: 55. Total balls that aren’t actually for me to knit (they’re either for a…
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No, I’m not giving up knitting. You can pry my needles out of my cold, dead hands. I am, however, letting go of more yarn. I did some soul searching, and also a bit of thought about my stash, what I like to knit, what I have time to knit, etc.…
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Handmade wardrobe item number… I don’t even remember. This is the Mesa dress I think I wrote about earlier this summer. I finished it a few weeks ago but couldn’t quite get the courage up to wear it until today. It felt, to me, like it looked handmade – my set…
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Last night I started a two-part sewing class at a shop in Columbus, which is kind of a haul for me but no one around here does classes (oh, if I were rich…I’d run a store of my own!) I’ve never learned to quilt proper, so I’m learning some new…
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It’s cold and grey and dreary outside, and my trip to Joanns today revealed that the holiday decor is quickly pushing out the fall themed stuff. I might have started to panic a bit about all the things I’m planning on making. So I came home and, after lunch, hopped…
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Last month I saw a post about Jimmy Beans Wool offering a subscription service for yarn. For $10, each month you receive samplings of different yarns. Since I’m no stranger to $10 shipments (I had Birchbox previously, but I’ve tired of the samples of cosmetics and canceled it), I was…