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Current Projects

Whoa.  It’s already been twenty days since my last post?!  Where does the time go? I thought I’d drop by to at least mention my currently open (yarn-based) projects. #1: Oldest in the list is a cotton market bag.  Once I worked through some issues with the pattern, the bag worked up quickly, but then […]

Teaching Myself to Knit

What’s this? Knitting needles?!  Shocking, isn’t it?  ;o) For a while, I resisted all thoughts of learning to knit– at least partly out of loyalty to crochet.  I liked the looks of both, but I felt that crochet often got short shrift.  Poor thing.  Plus, everyone always comments on how fast crochet is compared to […]