KaleidoSilk Scarf Published by Dave Daniels under Dyeing, Projects, Textures, Weaving I have to begin this post with a bit of a preface. My normal routine for crafting usually involves some extremely vague concept or idea. And, usually, I try and document the process for my own reference and also also for the blog. And, usually, there are photographs, although not all of them are ever seen on the internet for various reasons. This project fell into NONE of what could be considered norm

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I’m down in the dumps. I feel blah. Maybe because the 4 day weekend is coming to a close and the next time I’m off of work is a month away. I don’t quite feel like knitting, even though I have many a project to do. Hopefully laying out what I’ve gotten done so far will push me back into the knitting. I am working on another Knit Picks project, which as always, I can not show, but I finished half of the work since Tuesday, and it’s not due back to them til 1/1. This makes me happy. I started t

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The striped Noro scarf was finished just in time for the first wave of chilly weather, and now I’m working on the next part of the winter ensemble–the mittens. I don’t know what’s possessed me to knit the mittens to match the scarf–it’s turning out to be more trouble than it’s worth. Plus I’m not usually a matchy matchy kind of person. (The carpet matches the drapes. That’s about it.) Oh my God–Pajama Party is on Turner Classics! And there’s Annette singing the title song! (It’s a terrible n

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Winter has snuck up on us again! The surest sign of the season has hit the streets of Manhattan: Salvation Army Santa’s are ringing their bells in front of every department store in the city. For New Yorkers that sight and sound is usually like an alarm clock awakening us from our comfortable repose, catapulting us out of our gentle autumn slumber into the rush and dash and chaos of December. Which leather gloves did I get my father last year? The brown? Does he need a black pair this year? Or

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♥hello everyone! I hope you all are enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday, and taking advantage of all of the sales! I did some lengthy (very lengthy!) shopping on Friday and Saturday and have some fabulous new buys! The sweater is actually supposed to be more body-hugging, but I like the loose, casual fit for t-shirts, so I bought it a size bigger and decided to treat it as sort of an oversized sweater. I’m planning to buy more basics like this later on, too. As for the scarf, it’s a circle

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