Travel: Urban Knitting, Stockholm

I actually have been meaning to make mention of this for a while… er, since Sweden (June, wow). Having just stumbled upon an old Craftzine blog post about it and being happily procrastinating, now seemed like just the time.
On my last evening in Stockholm back in June, I was meeting up with some colleagues for [...]

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Knit: The Lease, the Rent and a Sweet Baby Cap

These are the three items that I will be popping in my landlord’s mailbox first this tomorrow morning. Finished the first of the Norwegian Baby Caps at Booze Cruise Knitting this evening. Sewing in ends and attaching chin straps is apparently a-ok to combine with wine drinking. Knitting lace, not so much. I [...]

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Knit: Swish and Swallowtail, and “Boo, early mornings.”

So today I was up and about a full two hours before this normally happens. (Why is it so shameful to be lazy appreciate one’s bed?) I am trying to get my body used to the idea of being fully functioning by 8am in anticipation of my nasty little test coming up in t-minus 1.14 [...]

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Knit: Holy Pomatomi Batman!

Can you believe it? Two socks, one skein, with <3 yards to spare. I was chanting “oh please oh please oh please don’t run out” from about the heel turn on… (I know that you experienced knitters out there probably plan ahead and have a good sense for how much yarn a project [...]

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To Do: French Knot Embroidery

There’s a French knot embroidery tutorial over at the purl bee… Beautiful! And would match my carpet, incidentally.

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Knit: Norwegian Baby Cap x 2

Quick, easy and so much fun to knit… and as an added bonus the end product is way cute! Done with the bulk of the work on two Norwegian Baby Caps. Still to weave in the ends and to make the chin ties… a first attempt at i-cords. They may be idiot proof, [...]

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Knit: Mrs. Darcy Cardigan c’est finito!

I can’t help myself. I just have to post a little note to say that I finished Mrs. Darcy. “What??” I hear you say. “I thought you were supposed to be studying?? Isn’t this the purpose of the little hiatus from blogging?”
Yes, I know. Everything you say is true. I am supposed to [...]

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Apologies

Apologies.
You may have noticed things are getting pretty sparse around here these days. This will not change any time soon, as I am coming up on the first of two PhD qualifying exams. Fear not, I haven’t put down the needles completely. But projects are progressing at a snail’s pace, I’m losing track of the [...]

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