• Trying to keep myself accountable to my Year of Projects 2025-2026 list and my HRCYED 2.0 reading list, here’s what I worked on, finished or read this quarter (July-September 2025). You can see my Year of Projects plans overview here. Knitting/Crocheting: I have completed the Asterie Sweater and the Sailing School Socks off the original…

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  • I finished up the first Dyad sample this week. If you’d like to read more details about it, you can see the post I wrote here. I will be winding yarn to start the second sample this week. I have added in a few rows on my Painted Plains Scarf. I kind of need to…

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  • Dyad

    I’ve finished up my sample knit for designer, Kate Oates, and her Dyad sweater pattern. I’ll actually be making a second one but let’s talk about this finish first! Per Kate’s request, I knit this one in the 3rd size and used the shorter body option and the fold over cabled collar. This gives it…

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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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  • Several finished things this week! First, my Aster blouse is finally done. This is a Colette pattern (no longer in business) and I used the short flutter sleeve option. The fabric is a cotton lawn from Kokka Fabrics. They have lots of interesting Japanese fabrics and this one is very lightweight and drapey. I probably…

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  • Having a very nice at-home long weekend this Labor Day. I had lunch out with a friend and we walked around the Santa Fe art market on Saturday but otherwise I’ve been home enjoying some crafting time. I finished the collar on Dyad and the first sleeve on Asterie but since both of those look…

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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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  • “They say that when I was born, all the wild geese flew down from the sky, and the fish sank beneath the waves, having forgotten how to swim. Even the lotus flowers in out gardens quivered and turned their heads away, so ashamed they were of their own diminished allure in my presence.” I thoroughly…

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