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    Quilted and bound

    Finished this last week or so but I’m finally getting around to photographing it. The Little Mr’s quilt is done and ready to be wrapped up. ♥ Now I just need to get working on all the rest of the knitting that needs done ASAP.

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    Festive-ish

    Well, the holiday season has finally arrived. Our tree is up and while it still doesn’t totally feel very merry right now (to me), the tree is proof that it is, in fact, nearing Christmas. We put up another little Fraser Fir tree today. There wasn’t the meltdown this year…

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    Beanie Bag Round 2

    Here’s November’s Beanie Bag from Jimmy Beans Wool. Better late than never, I guess (on my part, I mean – I received my shipment in a timely manner this time around). Left-Right: Shibui Cima in Pollen; Shibui Staccato in Pollen; Shibui Pebble in Pollen; Shibui Maai in Pollen. Extras: packet of…

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    The tally

    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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    Goodbye, yarn.

    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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    The Mesa dress

    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…