Swallowtail Shawl KAL

I’m just over the 100 stitches mark, and asking myself, “Why did I sign up for this KAL?”
The Swallowtail KAL and Support Group on Ravelry is being run by one of my good ATC  Swap pals, that is why.   Start date was June 30 and we are supposed to be done by August.  Oh, [...]

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Daisy Market Bag

Now that I’ve posted this as a Free Pattern, and revised it twice three times already, I thought I had better knit another one up from the current pattern.
If anybody finds mistakes in their pattern, kindly let me know.
Anybody want to make this a KAL?
Leave a comment,  let me know.  Or PM on Ravelry, where [...]

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Log Cabin Square # 6

Yes! I have six squares done!
Now I can piece them together and see how it looks!
I am hoping with the border I am planning that it might work out to be enough, because I have had enough of knitting these squares.

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CPH Progress Report

This is the back of my CPH sweater KAL, as you can see, I am thru the armhole shaping and ready for the neck shaping.   I now have a two fronts and most of the back done.
Then there is the sleeves, the hood and the trim.
Oh, yeah, and the sewing up.  ( I am [...]

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CPH

Vi and I signed up at Twisted to participate in the latest Sweater KAL, which this time is the Central Park Hoodie.
I found the perfect yarn and had perfect gauge on my first swatch…this is the equivalent of knitting nirvanha. Debbie Bliss Donegal Luxury Tweed.
I think this one is a winner!

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Avoiding SSS

The dreaded “Second Sock Syndrome” is best avoided if you cast on your second sock within ten minutes of finishing your first one. I have it good authority that this is the Thing-To-Do, because that is what the Yarn Harlot says. So here I am, slogging along…thinking of how another soldier will smile:)
Ordered [...]

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Log Cabin Knitting

Been working steadily away on the Log Cabin knitted quilt.  Since Ravelry’s Mason-Dixon Knitting Group was doing a Log Cabin KAL, it keeps me going a bit more.  That and Chris is really into seeing this thing grow, and he keeps buying me new skeins to help it grow even bigger!

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Log Cabin-ing Around

My latest project is for Chris, a log cabin blanket. He picked the color scheme of gray, blues & purples. Its coming along nicely, I have two squares done, with 3 segments each of blues/purples. Cali enjoys sitting on the finished pieces. Ravelry started a KAL for the Mason-Dixon Knitting/Log Cabin, [...]

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mystery stole 2 progress

after spending last week frogging back to row one, I am now up to row 31.  yahoo.
I can tell it will be a beautiful stole, and I know the yarn choice and needles are working well together, because the stitch definition is very nice and the pattern is showing very well.

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mystery stole week two

man, I am soooo far behind, what with camping and computer meltdowns and all.
I have tried to devise a method to both follow and read smoothly from a chart that is 99 stitches long and that took some effort.  My poor eyes see everything as too itty bitty these days, so I spent the time [...]

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