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By Karen B. Matching mitts for Lu What can you do with 100 yards of Aran-weight yarn? Why, make a pair of fingerless mitts of course. These should be the perfect complement to the legwarmers I recently completed for my friend Lu. I based the mitts on the same alternating round stitch pattern of K2tog, YO, K1 and K1, YO, [...] By Karen B. If you’ve ever been away from something for a long time, you’ll understand when I tell you how difficult it becomes to return to it. When it came to relating crafting stories, I felt dried up; choking on the sameness and wanting something else. I kept waiting for the spark of inspiration or the kind of [...] By Karen B. The Chicago Marathon was held this past weekend. This fall tradition brought over 45,000 runners of all skill levels right past my home. See, I happen to live along the last leg of the 26.2 mile course. You reach my pad, the race is almost over! Relevance? I’m simply trying to draw a parallel between a coincidence [...] By Karen B. What started as a simple desire to provide a little warmth and softness for a neighbor who’d been ill for quite some time blossomed into a pair of somewhat stripey mittens with a matching hat to boot. I hadn’t seen Gloria for a couple of months. I’d heard she was getting treated for some sort of [...] By Karen B. I’ve fallen into a pattern in the past 5 years. You see, I’ve had 3 or 4 interns on my team and they’ve all been guys. Not on purpose, mind you. It just sort of turned out that way. I’ve taken to calling them “my boys.” The gender bit isn’t the pattern [...] By Karen B. About 3 weeks ago, Debi (of Chez FKD) penned a post called “Days of Wine and Roses.” In it, she describes the eponymous mitts she made, which were loosely based on those found in the Winter ’06 edition of Interweave Knits. They were so beautiful that, on a lark, I left a comments saying [...] |
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