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December 30, 2008
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Redoing a neckline + knit knit knit

Stefanie has posted a really lovely tutorial on how to enlarge a sweater’s neckline once you’ve (whoops) made it too…

December 22, 2008
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Fetlock wristwarmers pattern for sale

I am a pattern-writing machine this week! (Or trying to be, anyway). Now available! Fetlock wristwarmers, $2.50. These stylish horseshoe-cable…

December 21, 2008
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Preview of Exploded View

(shown flat…some people at the shop were tempted to wrap it around themselves like an octopus stole) (shown pre-seaming on…

December 19, 2008
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Fancy! Patternfish gift certificates!

Check this out! My friend Julia’s lovely site Patternfish is now offering gift certificates. So if you have some knitters…

December 18, 2008
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Look what I just ordered!

I’m having a bad day today, despite having just finished the Exploded View cardigan (new pattern, coming soon). So I…

December 17, 2008
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Last minute gift suggestions

For the sewer: Anna Maria Horner‘s new book Seams To Me: 24 New Reasons to Love Sewing is a revelation…

December 16, 2008
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Cool dyeing technique

Tara at Blonde Chicken Boutique posted the coolest link to Twitter just now: Experimental Recycled Sleeve Dyeing with Food Dyes.…

December 16, 2008
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Bazaar Bizarre Cleveland: the aftermath

So apart from some truly strange cop-on-bingo-player violence in the parking lot Saturday night (or, as I phrased it then:…

December 9, 2008
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I could swear I wrote about this already…

…but Stephen Colbert made it even funnier: remember when the knitter got busted coming back over the Canadian border for…

December 8, 2008
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Kindlegrrl part two, electric boogaloo

Since I’ve been busy enabling half my friends on Twitter to run out and buy Kindles, I thought I’d post…