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Death and Socks

Sock Wars is over (for me anyways- there are loads of lucky warriors still knitting!). My target died the day before I died- so all in all it was a resounding success. My wrist starting aching from something or other about 3 days in forcing me to take a couple of days off… so I’m [...]

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Snuffkin

My ‘vegan swap’ swap partner has a ton of gorgeous hats in her ravelry projects list, including a mad hatter hat, which I just need an excuse to try and mimic (halloween anyone?). Her hats inspired me to dig out a picture and share this knit. A couple of summers ago I spent about a [...]

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Estonian Stockings

I’ve cast on a pair of Virve’s Stockings from Nancy Bush’s Folk Knitting in Estonia, an absolutely beautiful book. The cast-on was a major pain in the a**- and it took me 4 or 5 tries to get past the first 3 rows. But I love love love the lacy cuff and think the end [...]

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