• Year of Projects 2025-2025: Weeks 22-23

    Looking for Knit One, Spin Too? You’re in the right place! I took last week off from posting to do a little site update to rebrand and get ready to relaunch my podcast at the end of next week. I think I’ve got the old website URL with an auto redirect, but you may wish…

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  • I finished up several things this weekend. Sunday a.m. we woke up to rain (which hardly ever happens here and definitely not in November!) and I enjoyed a full hour of knitting with a cup of coffee while I sat and listened to it drum on the roof – heavenly! First on the finish list…

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  • FO: Dyad Jacket 2

    I finished up the second of the Dyad samples I was making for designer Kate Oates. The base design is a worsted weight, surplice-front jacket with long sleeves. It is worked mostly in stockinette with the reverse side showing, and several slip-stitch “seams” at the sides, center back and along the raglan shaping. The jacket…

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  • Book Review: The Wild Places

    Although I have had many enjoyable good reads this year, I haven’t had many 5-star ones, so when I was plotting out my nonfiction November titles, I grabbed The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane to add to my TBR, and it did not disappoint. MacFarlane has an amazing knack for writing accessible but lyrical prose,…

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  • Limited things to share this week as I just put my head down and plowed along to finish up Dyad. I’ll have a more detailed FO post on it this week but it is done and blocked! I am also super close to a finish on The Autumn Garden. Just a few more leaves and…

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  • This week I mostly focused on the Dyad sweater sample as I want to get it finished up and shipped to the designer along with the green one I knit in September. I finished the first sleeve and this week I plan to concentrate on sleeve 2 to get it finished up. I had kind…

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  • This week I managed to get the colorwork collar on Dyad and do the finishing of the front bands. Still needs the sleeves and a good blocking but the hard stuff is done and I’m hopeful I can cruise along on the sleeves. I also worked on my Book Club cardigan and I’m at the…

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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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  • I missed last week’s post – I had a work event all day Saturday and then Sunday got away from me so you get a double dose this week. Slow but forward progress on the second Dyad jacket. I’m a bit farther along than this photo and more than halfway done the body. I’m going…

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  • Book Review: The Zorg

    Thank you to MacMillan Publishers and NetGalley for my advance reader’s copy. All opinions contained herein are my own. In 1780, the triangle/slave trade between the coast of Africa, the US and Caribbean, and England was well-established. Britain maintained a number of forts or at least fortified locations along the western African coast where their…

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