i have the attention span of a gnat. all it took today was a post by the yarn harlot about noro striped scarves and i immediately forgot all about my embroidery and ended up cruising around flickr finding some really gorgeous photos 1. noro striped scarf 2. noro scarf i 3. noro striped scarf 4. noro striped scarf 06 5. noro scarf 6. noro scarf 7. noro striped scar......
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...eographic area after a meeting on friday and another one on sunday but i no longer feel stuck at all just lucky. looking forward to hearing you speak again yarn harlot httpwww .yarnharlo t.cablog references a why 12step programs work for recovering addicts drug rehab this site may harm your computer. 23 aug 2008 by admin integrating 12step meetings...
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i meant to write this earlier and then was going to skip it because it was so late and my words werent coming out proper but that would be as if i were silent. i can not be silent. they deserve more. there is much i am silent on each day for one excuse or another none are better than trivial. ill use a photo and words more eloquent than my own to express what i c......
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first the facts title freerange knitter the yarn harlot writes again author stephanie pearlmcphee aka the yarn harlot published by andrews mcmeel publishing 2008 pages 228 type humor. chapters 1. cast on stories of beginnings good starts optimism and hope springing mostly eternal 2. knit two together stories of belonging joining and love......
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the annual make one yarn studio retreat was this weekend and let me tell you it was somethin else everybody wave talk about the rockstars of knitting and i managed to kinnear all of them we had cookie a. sock puppets cookie style and the yarn harlot there are no brokeback stitches in knitting and amy singer stefanie japel that82......
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on again about the patons sws. the majority of suggestions you all kindly offered in response to my last post suggested felting the yarn. im not a felter have never really had any interest in the technique and dont own a washing machine. nevertheless given that i would never use this yarn for an article of clothing and did want to get at least some value for the money spent i......
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a writer friend and i were talking the other day about our booktour fantasies were both guilty82 11against our better judgmentof romanticizing the potential of this grueling marketing tradition as some kind of literary road trip a 50state hey why not 5country bookstore tobooksto re campaign. there might be a parade float with a literary salon atop it. the readers ......
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so monkey1 is righteously scolding me cause i have caught what i thought was their mild cold and its been kickin my arse. well technically its more like theyve sent some gorilla cousins to sit on my chest all day night. ugh. i havent been in the mood to knit at all but im surprised ive actually accomplished something or another. this ......
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i think perhaps well declare it officially lest there be any doubt though it has been frequently thus. books are mostly for weekdays and im setting weekend space aside on dovegreyreader scribbles not only for rambling tours around rural devon and cornwall but to indulge in an unbridled craftfest. its inevitable now that i have more time im just going to jump right ......
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nanowrimo national novel writing month. nanowrimo also probably velicrabo very little crafting borg right click and save as to download this vlog post . subscribe to our you tube channel . yarn harlot mason dixon knitting nanowrimo......
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i am constantly amazed at all the wonderful people ive come into contact with since i started knitting. there are some really cool generous inspirational funny people out there. and theyre knitters. this probably comes as no surprise. what may be surprising is how many of us there are and quite what an impact we can make these past weeks have come up with some very interesting ......
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the knitting has been slow or not happening very frequently due to many real life happenings sister in town pumpkin patch field trips and pumpkin carving party the usual soccer and upcoming halloween not to mention the obligatory trip to the theater to see hsm3 dudes even dh went. and i still have bad hat knitting karma. so i finally get the hang of the brioche stitchfis herman......
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some people are good at getting canadian rock stars to hold a sock or henry for photo ops. i always thought that would be fun. so on tuesday night i asked kevin young who plays keyboards for david usher and played keyboards for moist to hold the sock im working on. of course i brought my sock to the david usher concert. duh. if youre not a fan of moist a......
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the handspun socks are at the toe decreases again and my goal is to finish them in the next day or two. i was able to catch up with the mystery sock clues this past week. clue 4 came out today and my goal is to try to stay on top of these so i can finish along with everyone else next week. well see how that goes. i finally fixed the unoriginal hat. today to be exact so i......
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well today was my birthday. it was a lowkey day with the little people i had to go to an event on campus in the afternoon but we went out for dinner afterwards. i received nice presents gardening tools a dar williams cd the new book from the yarn harlot lolspeak magnets the little guy was quite pleased with this gift. kudos to my dh for the title btw 82......
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to all of the naysayers and you know who you are i am makingasome headway on the aran wrap.a it may be finished this week.aai dont know what the deal was with those sleeves but it took 5 weeks for me to get them done .a the peplum has 300 sts and seems like it is going faster i tried the lil sucker on and it seems to be working.a it fits just li......
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as promised a true knitting post.a i scrounged around my knitting bags and pulled out some wips and finished them up.a this is just a samplingi have more to comea the pictures are already taken but i am not going to post them yet you will have to wait. first project 2 hour mittens ok i know that is a cop out 2 hour mittens and all but that is what i started with.a ......
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its harvest time where i grew up and we spent a good deal of time last weekend driving back and forth along roads of my childhood to and from various thanksgiving gatherings with family. a rutabaga field just outside my hometown was being harvested sunday morning as we drove by and i was reminded of something my family used to do this time every year my parents would drive slowly down th......
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there was a certain yarn that i had heard mythical tales of. tales of a certain yarn causing banks to shut down online payment processing. tales of long lines and imm ediate82 21 sellout and long lines at the various fibre festivals. tales of gorgeous colours and a remarkable yarn base. i just wanted to try this yarn. i didnt necessarily want to keep what i knitted ......
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yarn harlot from the kansas city airport you can see me taking a picture of her taking a picture of the crowd. tags yarnharlot kc kansascity where is your username registered tags reference free tools web online search socialnetworking names username utilities webapp identity service posted in random......
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i got to go see the yarn harlot last night she came to kc on her book tour for free range knitter the yarn harlot writes again . i went with my friend amanda . we met up early to get dinner and beer and then drove over to unity temple on the plaza where the event was being held. we were the first ones in the door such nerds i know. we sat around and what else kn......
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evening bloggersa tonight my knit hook group made a special trip the grand opening of the hobby lobby in my neck of the woods.aa i had never been to a hl before and i was pleasantly surprised to see how huge this store is.a i saw pat catans joanns and michaels all rolled into one store pretty much. i made a bee line for the yarn dept since my group was meeting there at 6pm.a......
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welcome to the september just posts there are two things that i want to write about today. first i want to remind you that next week on october 15 there is blog action day . on that day more than 7000 bloggers will all write about the same topic to raise consciousness. last year it was about the environment and this year it will be about poverty. i want to thank lia for bringing......
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i found a new blog today. i dont know about you but i dont add many new blogs to my blog reader very often. i very jealously guard my blog roll and since i have precious little time to myself these days the adding of a new blog must be carefully thought out. ok now is the time to call me weird. go ahead leave it in the comments you know you want to. all kidding aside thoug......
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flickr panda how have i never seen this before tags funny web photo flickr pictures photography illustration panda wtf explore pics awesome yarn harlot hey hugo hold a sock yarn harlot says every time someone gets a world leader a head of state royalty or a candidate for any of those positions to hold a sock in progress.i will make a do......
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