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Jan 23, 2012, 3:06 pm
It shouldn't come as a huge shock to anyone who knows me that I have a bit of a thing about ducks.
But a quick search of the blog shows that it has been entirely too long since the last duck content posting.
First up, a never to be eaten sweet little snack. I gather from internet searches that ... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 7:22 pm
And if you can't experience helps.
In October 2009, I knit a lace collar called Prudence from the book Knit One, Make One In Classic Knitted Cotton by Furze Hewitt.
The book has been mostly shelved ever since for the same reason that had me pass it up purchasing it the first time I encountered it --... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2012, 7:22 pm
A not so funny thing happened. . .
It's a small alpaca shawl that I designed and knit before the fall.
It has been sitting in cold storage for some time waiting for the right publishing opportunity.
Recently a good possibility turned up.
In a best foot forward moment, I thought I'd give it a bath an... Comment - Like
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Dec 12, 2011, 10:45 am
I'm not a big one for following knitting trends or the must knit project of the week/month. I'm not oblivious to the trends but unless they interest me for some other reason other than being the latest thing, I'm not likely to be putting them on the needles.
So a large number of the everyone's knit... Comment - Like
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Dec 8, 2011, 6:46 pm
Once upon a time Blogger didn't support comments in a reasonable fashion if at all. So third party add-ons and tips to install them were part of the blogsphere. Most people weren't making money off of their blogs so free was the way to go and free abounded as coders cut their teeth and worked out ... Comment - Like
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Nov 28, 2011, 1:31 am
A number of people in my life have subscribed to the theory that my abodes do not actually have black holes that things disappear into for a period of time.
The standard refrain of these folk is that if I just kept a clear desk, sewing table, work space etc. that things would not go missing. Well, ... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2011, 12:35 pm
Stemware gets socks, people feet get slippahs and @ this time of the year not rubbah ones.
Some years back I went into knitted fingerless mitts mode. Although my original pair was bound for a hothouse flower friend in Ohio and therefore made climate/weather sense to me, the majority of the seven pai... Comment - Like
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Nov 4, 2011, 3:40 am
The didn't make it in time for Halloween 2011 projects include a partially completed knitted black cat, knitted witch and a spider web.
Two of the three projects are sitting in project bags with needles and instruction notes waiting for me to revisit them. The spiderweb project is sitting near the ... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2011, 4:33 am
Halloween or All Hallow's Eve aka Celtic New Year's Eve has oddly inspired me this year so I guess it makes sense that I should revive the blog at this time of year.
Little side line about the gap in blog postings, I've written drafts, I've saved them, edited them, and consciously decided not to del... Comment - Like
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Sep 10, 2010, 4:09 am
So for everyone who has an issue with white on black -- byte me. I'm only a little kidding about this.
I recently went to a professional meeting where the suggestion was that only people without design and layout experience did light text on dark background web and blog layouts.
Byte me seems righ... Comment - Like
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May 1, 2010, 2:50 am
Well, if I manage to write and post this in the next 10 minutes I will at least have one blog posting in April 2010.
I'm guessing that "stuff" isn't quite going to cut it and playing another smoke and mirrors bringing on the backlog and backdating entries is just a recipe for getting myself back int... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2010, 11:26 pm
Going Ape
Me? I should be doing the whole walkabout to the Whistlestop this weekend or being local social at a potluck but I've been fighting with my swatches for a geometric half octagon and multiple conflicting social obligations as per usual mean go to neither.
My first real world swatch had s... Comment - Like
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Jan 12, 2010, 9:07 pm
Or sometimes lazy lace isn't all that lazy.
Some years back I went off on an exploration of making the holes that appear when you do short rows without wrapping work as a design element rather than a problem.
I designed a couple of great scarves, jackets, hats, bags etc. using the technique. All o... Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2010, 1:46 pm
It does seem appropriate that the sculptures in this series live in Hillcrest as does Balboa Park and the "world famous" San Diego Zoo but these sculptures are outside of some houses on the opposite side of the park from the zoo.
First up, the elephants
When I took these shots back in June, one of... Comment - Like
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Jan 2, 2010, 8:37 pm
I was thinking about the guild's tea party challenge when I went digging in the stash room for nasty acrylic suitable for knitted food.
Originally the idea was revisiting my cup cake technique to either knit a half dozen or so as part of the challenge and also to surprise a very dear local knitter a... Comment - Like
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Dec 29, 2009, 9:46 pm
No, no, really, it will make it to Montana at some point before the Spring. But I just wasn't happy with the swirl factor of the front and so there was another pass at blocking.
Truth? It didn't make that much difference once I took the blocking wires out.
Still, I did get a nice shot of the almos... Comment - Like
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Dec 8, 2009, 2:11 pm
Around this time back in 1956 I was busy plotting an early entry into the world.
Sometime earlier that year, my mother was trying to get her knit on in anticipation of my arrival. My mother, like her sister aka MATB, was not a knitter.
Unlike her sister, my mother had no real illusions about her la... Comment - Like
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Dec 1, 2009, 11:16 pm
Or back when my mother and I both really liked my profile, my mother had this silhouette piece done of me.
I think I remember the hat -- a modified cloche with a wide velvet ribbon that was my Easter bonnet in maybe 1961 or thereabouts.
I remember a long lost hazy photo or two of me and my brother f... Comment - Like
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Nov 29, 2009, 12:03 am
Although in the knitting early days my fingers/brain seemed intent on not learning the rhythm of the pattern, the Brilla Prudence lace collar knit up quickly once it really hit the front of the knitting queue.
I cast on on the 10th of October and finished on the 22nd of November.
I'm quite clear th... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 12:19 am
I'm not much for the holiday itself but I'm pretty good at being thankful or at least I try.
Today's posting is one of those life's simple pleasures to be thankful for in this case, a sunny day, Southern California and a rose in bloom in November.
A couple weeks ago, I spent the day getting my neigh... Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2009, 12:49 am
My late aunt (often know as MATB) apparently wasn't a really great knitter. Okay, it could have been age, eyesight and pride, but when she died I ended up with some of her unfinished stuff and it was oddly gratifying to see that someone who had always held herself as way better than anyone else... Comment - Like
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