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The body of the Windsor Cardigan is finished
Tonight, to my great delight, the body of the Windsor Cardigan is sitting whole on a chair in my living room. The body, peblum trimmed in lace and all, is complete. I still have the arms to knit, but...
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Going with the short sleeves
Maybe I feel this way because it's nearly summer, but I've decided to keep the sleeves short on the Windsor Cardigan. Last night, I picked up all the stitches around the arm holes and knitted a few...
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Why are old posts showing up on the In Stitches page?
Branding myself isn't always as easy as I'd like. People read my In Stitches blog posts and columns in different places. For years now, there have been In Stitches blog posts at...
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Knitting in Provence
No, I'm not going to France to knit. A few months ago, my friend Liz gave me four hanks of Classic Elite Provence, a 100-percent mercerized cotton yarn, imported from Greece, in a lovely shade of...
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Have you ever been caught up in a fever of creativity?
Yesterday, I started playing with some yarn that I have been eyeing all summer. It was three hanks of a soy yarn from Kollage that someone gave me in a Ravelry swap and two skeins of Southwest Trading...
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Winner announced
We have a winner in the book giveaway contest. I like to use the random number generator at psychicscience.org because I'm a big fan of the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?" So I went to that website...
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Alex’s favorite beanie pattern
These are the 5 hats I donated to the veterans at the "Knitters Unite" night at the Hunterdon County Library. All of them followed the same basic design I'm describing here. You've probably noticed I...
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Book Review: ’10 Granny Squares, 30 bags’ by Margaret Hubert
You all know how I generally feel about granny squares, those ubiquitous crocheted squares that show up in almost every crochet book of patterns. Well, designer Margaret Hubert has been updating them,...
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NJ Wool Walk, Day 3: I shouldn’t have . . .
I lazed around most of Saturday morning, but I decided that as the knitting blogger/columnist of mycentraljersey.com, I had better make an appearance at the yarn shops in Fanwood, Westfield and Summit,...
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I spent the weekend on the Zephirine Cardigan
Ok, I confess that I'm a little obsessed with the Zephirine Cardigan. I should've spent time finishing up the baby sweater for Claudia's grandson, Freddie, which I started last spring. I should've...
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