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Thanks to a well-timed Harry Potter marathon this weekend, my oatmeal sweater is almost done. This is the final sleeve, which needs another inch or two – then I can start piecing it and knitting the neck. It shouldn’t be … Continue reading

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Yarn Along

I haven’t had much time to read lately, but I am enjoying Sarah Vowell’s Lafayette in the Somewhat United States. Sarah Vowell is one of my favorite non-fiction writers, though somehow I’ve never managed to write about her on this … Continue reading

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Yarn Along

Here’s a photo of The Winter’s Tale, my winter sweater, and some fading winter sunshine. Playing with light is just a sneaky way of disguising the fact that I am STILL working on the English rib sweater – but hey, … Continue reading

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Yarn Along

I’ve been an anemic blogger lately, though other parts of my writing life are hopping along nicely. Maybe sometime soon I’ll devote a blog post to all the projects I have going on in my real-world life. I am still … Continue reading

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Yarn Along

I finished the back of my oatmeal sweater last weekend, and today I cast on for the front. I enjoyed making my brown English rib sweater over the summer (summers aren’t horrendously hot where I live, though this past one … Continue reading

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Yarn Along

My short attention span for books continues, but today’s photo is of Camara Laye’s The Radiance of the King, which is really good but a little cringeworthy for all the racism and ignorance it showcases – in the first chapter at … Continue reading

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That Time I Made Hundreds of Beads and Photographed Them in the Evening Light (And Yes, Also Yarn Along)

Above you can see why I haven’t been knitting much lately. I needed to do a craft with second and third graders as part of a job interview, so I pulled out this old favorite. These beads are easy and … Continue reading

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Yarn Along

I haven’t been doing much knitting lately. I do still care about this project, but I’ve been reading more than usual and also working on another craft – beadmaking – that sucks me into its web once a decade or … Continue reading

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Yarn Along

When I took this photo yesterday, I was almost done with A Feast for Crows, and I was feeling the same ambivalence I’ve felt at the end of all of George R.R. Martin’s other books: so glad to be almost … Continue reading

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Yarn Along

If you are kind enough to visit our blog on Yarn Along days regularly, you may have noticed that I sometimes like to knit the same pattern over and over. Case in point: as soon as I finished the brown … Continue reading

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