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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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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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I have swatched and swatched and swatched and then swatched some more.
I tried every kind of yarn that I had enough of and realized that I cannot knit over a thousand yards of:
wool or mohair
on
size 3 or less needles.
 either my skin can't deal or my eyes can't deal.  
Gave it up and went to LYS [...]

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I've joined my first ever group and kal!!! It's mystery stole 2 brought to us by pink lemon twist. (see blogroll) It is to be a lace stole and since I have no lace wt. yarn I needed to find some. Since I had very little in my budget, I first went [...]

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