Brezel hat

Knitting Notes

Since the alpaca cowl I was making was so simple, I decided to cast on something else a little more complicated to go back and forth between.     BF had admired the pattern I had made for his younger brother’s Christmas hat, so I cast on one for him, using the Classic Elite Lana […]

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Alpaca cowl

Knitting Notes

Pattern: a simple stockinette cowl, by meYarn: Twillingate Farm’s Alpaca yarnNeedles: Size 8 circs So I’d tried to make a hat out of this yarn, and the heavier weight yarn just didn’t work in a more formal pattern.    So I frogged that, and went with a really simple cowl instead.   I believe this

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Lolo Hat

Knitting Notes

This is a Lolo hat, by Jared Flood.    I’m using the Twillingate Farms alpaca that L bought me.     I have two skeins of that – one’s basically worsted weight, the other is fingering.    I only have 50 yards of the worsted, and I really wasn’t able to find any patterns I

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2016 Yarn Stash

Cold Sheep 2016

I’ve decided to do Cold Sheep for 2016 (from the LSG Group on Ravelry).    The idea is to not buy new yarn for some set period of time in 2016 (with some allowed exceptions), and to knit from your existing stash.    I’m going to attempt this for the whole year. My stash (see

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old books

Books Read 2015

Here’s the list: The one I couldn’t finish can be found here. I made it past 80!!! It was definitely a good year.    For next year, I think I’m going to concentrate on finishing off series.    I have several hanging out in my tote of shame that I’ve been delaying gratification on finishing, and

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