The Haunted Palace

I purchased some cotton spun with angora some time ago, as a bargain bag (several skeins together). I’ve been saving it, not certain what to create with this amazingly soft yarn. Finally, I decided on a simple sweater: the modified drop-shoulder pullover from Ann Budd’s wonderful book, The Knitter’s Handy Book of Sweater Patterns: Basic [...]

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Thank you, Kit, for the heads-up to this hilarious video.

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Despite the fact that this knitter never turns (!) her knitting, I love this:

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I just spent an inordinate amount of time organizing and tagging my knitting projects and projects’ queue at Ravelry. I actually made myself stop way before completion, because this is one of those projects, in which one could become lost.

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Granted, knitting involves pointy sticks, but blogging involves spam, grammar police, and “Internet celebrities”.

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In case I might need it as we pack: lifehacker.com/tag/cleaning

Also, I just listed a second pair of my Blueberries and Blackberries slippers at Etsy: original pair’s listing (sold) / new listing

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I’m going to be offering items for sale in my Etsy store for charity.

The first charity will be the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and the money will help to fund research and treatment for breast cancer: all pink items, naturally. Then I will offer a spate of red items, and those proceeds will be donated [...]

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