My grandfather was once amused to hear how much I loved gardening and how I wanted a farm. I’m (pathetically) not very knowledgeable about my grandparents and their history/childhoods, as many young’uns are. I knew, though, that every year my grandparents had a large garden they tended. When I discussed…
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My least favorite season has arrived officially. Ugh. Despite being a knitter, and loving to wear wool sweaters and socks and whatnot, I really could do without the bitter cold and ice of winter. We’ve been homebodies these last few days, spending our time reading and knitting and playing. The…
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The upside to all this time off from the holidays has meant lots of extra knitting time I otherwise never get. I’m a little worried by how spoiled I’m becoming about it – next week we go back to Real Life, which means back to our normal schedules and normal…
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Well, it’s done! It was all finished before the end of December, so it still counts as a holiday gift. All in all, knitting a sweater for the husband wasn’t a horrible undertaking, but in the future I’ll definitely choose my patterns a bit differently. Preferably the top-down variety that…
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Well, the holiday came and, thankfully, went. I managed to mostly avoid being totally Grinch-like, but I just couldn’t find the holiday spirit in me these last two weeks. But I put on a good show, I guess. Now that the last of the parties are over, it’s time to take…
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After a long, emotionally exhausting week I can officially say that we are near the end of the husband’s Christmas sweater. I spent several hours on the road, going back and forth between home and the funeral home, and managed to get the bulk of the 2nd sleeve knit (don’t…