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Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I didn’t forget a musical shiny, it’s Tuesday after all! I’m a little blue today, probably because I’m sick, so this seems appropriate: It’s from the movie Sita Sings The Blues. You can find the whole thing on Youtube or if you google it in other places on the web. One of my favorite animated [...]

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the hats, they just keep a’ coming…

Posted in knitting, spinning on October 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Ysolda’s Icing Swirl slouch, knit up in a bulky thick n thin handspun art yarn that was gifted to me by Ms. Funky Carolina. Don’t know the name of the colorway, but I sure do love it! I also knit up a quick snood in some handspun (also a Funky Carolina blend of bamboo and [...]

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Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

No, I didn’t forget the musical shiny… it is, after all, Tuesday…

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the days, they just fly by…

Posted in fiber arts, knitting, life, school, spinning on October 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I am so squeeful about it being cooler weather, there really aren’t words. It is comfortable to knit, comfortable to spin, fun to work with fiber again! Suddenly, things are getting finished and bumped off the Ravelry queue. Yep, feels like knittin’ season again… I finished a hat! Here modeled by the gorgeous #2 offspring: [...]

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It’s alchemy, really.

Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The joy of fiber is that you start with a wad of unspun fluff. Apply twist. Ply needles. Et viola. Magic. What Light… …becomes Toasty. Yes, it is the annual “Oh hell, the holidays are coming, time to use up the handspun I did last spring…” panic of trying to find a quick and easy [...]

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February Lady and Tuesday shiny

Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »

here she is, unblocked and without buttons! She has since been blocked and buttons added, but, we don’t have pictures of that yet. And in honor of the precipitation we are supposed to get tomorrow (which hopefully won’t bring the burned parts of the San Gabriels down upon us…)

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Tuesday Musical Shinies

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

And yes… there might be a theme here. It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, for some senses of the word. If you’re using interesting in the curse sense, anyway. I like the idea of a blog series. Even if you haven’t got something profound to say, there’s always something to share… So I’m going [...]

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what a long, weird month it’s been

Posted in knitting, life, tagged on October 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I just realized that it is exactly one month since my last post, one month since the hills above our cottage were on fire, one month in which a lot of stuff has happened. The Station Fire is over, but the hills and mountains above us still resemble a lunar landscape. Not much up there [...]

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