The Greenhouse Effect —

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Without going into too many words about climate change, global warming, and our slow destruction of the planet (this ain't no newfangled...

My pattern, she is done! —

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That's right, I'm smug.  Meet Bonaventura, named for the 16th century Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri , of which I ...

Probably Because It's Fall —

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Madelinetosh Tosh merino DK in Silver Fox Yesterday I felt ill, which was doubly a bummer because yesterday was the first day that re...

Blah blah blah it's been a while —

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Yada yada yada, ammaright? This happened and that happened and let's not do the catch-up game, ok? I'm so, so bad at it and...

The First Step —

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It's taken nearly 4 years... It began simply enough. Enter a foreign (or familiar) yarn store, pick out the colors you like best. Or...

We only hurt ourselves —

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I'm not even going to have the subconsciously self-aggrandizing "I haven't been writing here in so long" bit, because it&#...

I am not doing a good job here... —

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...and I know it! My whole schedule is thrown off. I haven't touched my knitting since Saturday—any of it, and there's a lot of it. ...

International Women's Day —

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I could write a 1,000 word post on the subject of women, but I think I would end up exhausted, angry, and depressed by the time I finished i...

Because the point is NOT to crush one's skull... —

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The Doo and I have been living together for quite some time now, and for all that time I have had a manila envelope full of antique pictures...

babyKNITS! the second, part two —

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The second hat is finished. Clearly meant for a very hip, rocker baby.  I had to shove a grapefruit in it to get it the proper shape for ...

A ball, a skein, a hank, a cake —

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These are all different terms for yarn and the way it is wound. I realize I toss these terms around a lot and that non-knitters probably hav...

babyKNITS! the second... —

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Who knew a newborn baby's head was precisely the size of an unused skein of yarn? Onward and upward, my friends! Second hat is on...

babyKNITS! the first... —

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Every baby should have a nightcap... ©flossieKNITS Next up: babyKNITS hat with earflaps and mohawk. Yeahthat'sright... mohawk...

Crafting Quickie #7: Strawberry Chandelier —

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I feel like the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, rushing rushing rushing because I'm latelatelate. But  I have just enough time fo...

I can dream... —

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I am in absentia here, I know. I know! Oh, how I know it. I had a successful job meeting this week that was very exciting but will mean less...

Geoffrey Arend with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline —

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In the summer of 2006, my brother was performing in Mother Courage  in NYC with Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Austin Pendleton, directed by...

Extra Yarn —

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"With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants...

Lindsay Degen at New York Fashion Week 2012 —

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I've been quietly following Lindsay Degen and her unconventional knitting for a few months now. At just 23-years-old, she is doing some...

Crafting Quickie #6: Crochet Pumps - Do or Don't? —

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This isn't even a question for me, because I am not a woman who collects shoes or even pays much attention to them. I like boots, and sn...