Insaknity

…Beatrice Beth, my grandmother
(yes, I’m named for her)

This is her, at work. She was a winder at Whitall’s Mill in Worcester for many years.
The building she worked in had this sign on it:

Which is a bit misleading, there was no knitting going on, they made the wool and threads used for carpets and then […]

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Even though I took a brief break from my CPH to make the fabulously retro scarf 200, I’m back on track with Central Park Hoodie, and cast on for sleeve 1 this morning over coffee. I would love to finish this in time for SPA next month!

(The back has been blocked, the fronts have […]

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Never mind the doctor, it keeps the:

work,
knitting,
housework,
laundry,
shopping,
errands, AND
hygiene

away.
That new computer rush is intensified this time around since it’s ALL new. I’ve barely been able to tear myself away from it. I picked it up Wednesday at the Apple store, unpacked it that night, stayed up until the wee hours, draggggggged my tired […]

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The A-Line Vest I knit last November.
It’s been languishing at the back of the closet since I made it.
I’ve taken it out many times, planning on finally wearing it. Every time saying “I KNOW it will look good with this pair of pants/this skirt/this pair of jeans.” It never does.
The yarn (Malabrigo Chunky) […]

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That 70’s scarf

I NEEDED to make this as soon as I saw it on Yarn Ball Boogie.
I dusted off my hooks, mustered up every ounce of strength humanly possible, and I (gulp) bought some acrylic blend… Wait! It gets better… It was from a big box craft store.
Yes. I wanted one of these […]

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AFGHAN!
To be specific, a mutated combination of two AFGHANs:
The Great American AFGHAN

and
The Great American Aran AFGHAN

The ladies in my Tuesday night class have decided that they would like to do the five “hardest” squares (well, hardest as determined by XRX) as class projects and the rest will be small portable projects for them.  Following that […]

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It drives me crazy when I don’t have time to do the things I would like to do.
It makes me feel “all chaotic and twirly - - and not in a good way“, to quote my favorite flake of all time.
Really, things have been more than a bit nutzo ’round these parts for the past […]

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So I started my Central Park Hoodie. That’s what was pictured at the bottom of this post.
And here it is mid-point on my way up the back on New Years Eve day.

After all my hemming and hawing, after all the indecision, and even after my pleas for help in choosing a color, I wound […]

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