I’d Rather Be Knitting

I hate home remodeling. Well, to be honest, I love the end results, I hate the work required to get the results. Growing up, the vast majority of my childhood was spent fixing up houses. My parents could only afford fixer-uppers and with my dad being a journeyman carpenter, they thought it [...]

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Just One of Those Days

It’s just one of those days:
1. I started new job Monday.
2. I’m exhausted from the schedule change.
3. I’m coming down with a nasty head cold. My head feels like it wants to explode. I can’t call in sick to work because of number one.
4. My latest STR order from Thursday is still [...]

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Home Free

The roller coaster ride from hell is over with. Well, at least this ride is; I’m sure there will be other roller coaster rides. Somehow I got everything done I wanted to get done. The biggest challenge was getting all my stuff cleaned out of my office. (How in the hell [...]

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Hanging in There

There are no dead bodies yet. But it has come close a time or two today. I’m sure it will only get better throughout the week. (Note obvious sarcasm.) Knitting has been my salvation; one of the new skeins of STR has come with me to work. Whenever someone annoys the hell out of me; [...]

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Yes, I’m Here

The blogfront has been a bit quiet this week. I apologize for that. I gave my two weeks notice last Monday and let’s just say the crap hit the fan and splattered big time. I was invited to join the Outlaw Knitters blog ran by the notorious Mrs. H. Check out Close [...]

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Nothing Much to Look at Here

I have lots of things to show you but Hubby has kidnapped not only the new still camera but the old one I was using. So no pics today.
I’m madly knitting on the Peace Offering Scarf as quick as I can. I think, (now don’t quote me on this) I’m about 2/3 of [...]

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A Little of This, A Little of That All Mixed with a Little Panic!

Finally! The summer heat wave is over for the most part in my part of the world. We might see an Indian summer in the high-70’s, low 80’s, but bye-bye 90+ until next summer! Autumn my favorite season is nearly upon us. In Idaho, Labor Day is the end of summer [...]

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How to Ward Off Second Sock Syndrome

Second Sock Syndrome, or commonly known as SSS, is a dreadful disease that strikes sock knitters striking without warning. This highly contagious disease is so easily transmitted that is can hit isolated knitters even through quartantine. Knitters will not show symptoms until the disease has fully developed. There are no known ways to prevent this [...]

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Knitting Lesson #4: Project Selecting for Knitting Groups

A word to the wise about project selection for stitch n’ bitches: do not take lace shawls that you are having problems with to stitch n’ bitches. You will screw them up so badly that you will have to frog back 3 rows of 278 stitches each. You will mangle ssk, k2tog will produce dropped [...]

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