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Let’s start off this week with a finish, shall we? This is the Mushroom Hat, designed by Lotta Lothgren. I believe it may be available as a standalone pattern now but I have the entire pattern collection, Observations, that it appears in. I used 2 colors of DK-weight merino for mine. I doubled the length
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We’ve been enjoying a few warm sunny days here although we did build the first woodstove fire of the season this weekend which was lovely. Here’s what I worked on this weekend. A very quick start and finish of the Everyday Brew hat by Clare Devine. I have had this pattern in my library for
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Here’s what I’ve been working on this week: Slowly getting the garden put in on The Autumn Garden cross-stitch. I’ve been stitching the mums that finish up the left side of the design. I’m about halfway thru with those and then I’ve got some blackbirds and a dragonfly to add to finish up this side.
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This week I’ve been working on just a few things: Dyad – I am almost done the first sleeve with just the ribbing to do so I’m going to try to finish that this week and then get the second sleeve halfway done. I’m ready to get this one finished but I’m having a hard
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A little bit of progress on a handful of things this week: I started the cabled collar on the Dyad sample. It’s a fold over collar with cables on both sides so I’ve gotten to the halfway point and have worked the turning row, ready to work the second half. I also put some time
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Has it only been a week? It feels like 10 years have passed. If you read my life update section from last time, you’ll know we were planning to put our house on the market. We live in a fairly remote area with limited housing options and we had signed all the paperwork to list
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This week was really busy at work. We are a small team of 3 full and 1 part-time person, and one of those full-timers is out on leave enjoying time with her new little one – so that leaves a lot of extra to go around. However, I did get a chance to work on
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Year 15 (!) of the Year of Projects runs from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. Each Sunday I’ll have a post to talk about what I’ve been working on with craft projects for the week and what my plans are for the following 7 days. One thing I have learned in my time
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