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We have a house! I haven’t actually seen it in person, but the pictures are to die for. Things will be a little catch-as-catch can here at the blog for a few weeks. The packers come Tuesday, we’re in Maine for a week, we take some time to drive across…

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The leaf lace shawl is finished. …and that’s as far as I got with the photo shoot before Jacob wanted to “help”. Hopefully I can try again later, because it’s difficult to capture the drape and heft and sheen of this wonderful fabric on film. Pattern: Leaf Lace Shawl from…

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Things chez stash are, shall we say, a little crazy. A big move, me leaving my job (for the indefinite future, yay more time with the baby), a long knitting-filled road trip to get… well, we don’t actually have a place in Monterey yet but let’s just gloss over that…

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In coincidental timing, I’ve finished both the hoodie and the shawl tonight. FO posts will wait until there is proper picture-taking light, hopefully tomorrow. Am I already swatching for the next great thing? Of course I am! What is it? An Elsebeth Lavold cardigan for my maternal grandmother’s birthday, in…

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There are changes afoot Chez Stash, and they necessitated a spur-of-the-moment road trip to Burlington, VT this weekend. And what’s a road trip without a little knitting? The hoodie is finished except for some buttons, but I’m saving the pictures for an FO post. Which leaves the lace: It turned…

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…and there goes a week. I had a lovely birthday, filled with much knitting-related goodness. In addition to that gorgeous silk, I got some great books: Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan, Inspired Cable Knits by Fiona Ellis, the new Debbie Bliss Cashmerino DK book, and I finally got with the…

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One down-side to knitting multiple projects at once is that sometimes, even though you’ve been knitting and making progress, there’s very little in the way of interesting pictures. I finished both hoodie sleeves and they’re blocking along with the front (“only” the hood and finishing to go!), I got over…

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I have a brand-spanking-new nephew as of Saturday afternoon, so not much knitting. I had a nice long drive to Maine to ponder the socks, though. I think I just love the colorway too much to let myself knit a pair of “enh” socks out of it. So back into…

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Remember Harvey? When I knit it for my unusually-large child last fall in the 3-6 month size, I assumed it would be just right. Turns out, it was huge. Then this spring, it was still kind of large. And now, on my still-unusually-large 9 month old, it’s still kind of…

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Sadly, the Yorkshire Tweed in my last post is no longer destined for anything. (Apologies for the crappy lighting–things are good and dark and stormy here in Boston.) I had hopes that it would work for Eunny’s Deep-V Argyle Vest, which I’ll be knitting for a friend later this year,…

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