Archive for June, 2007

The sock yarn saga continues

Niki on Jun 26th 2007

In the last post I referred to the CTH sock yarn in “Earth” tones.  Well, Saturday the package arrived from Knit.  I opened it up, and had to laugh.  Very loudly.  Here’s why:
The sock:

The sock next to its “matching” yarn:

Same yarn, same “color group” - really.  Though I thought it might make a cute contrasting [...]

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The Knitting List

Niki on Jun 22nd 2007

Though nobody has tagged me with this, I’ve seen it on lots of sites and thought it was fun.  Feel free to consider yourself tagged if you’d like to do it to.
Bold for stuff you’ve done, italics for stuff you plan to do one day, and normal for stuff you’re not planning on doing.
Afghan/Blanket (baby [...]

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I just realized…

Niki on Jun 10th 2007

My original goal for this year was to knit 3 pair of socks per month - 1 for me, and 2 to give away.  Somewhere around March I realized this was probably insane, and backed it down to 2 per month, with at least 1 of those for someone else.  I just tallied up socks [...]

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I Got Six

Niki on Jun 9th 2007

And yes, to my children, that is grammatically incorrect, but I invite you to visit here and travel back to my childhood with me and sing along!  And if only socks could knit up as quickly as the numbers add up in the song.
I started (to think about) writing a post a little over a [...]

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