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2014: A Look Back

What an eventful year 2014 was for me — and not always in a good way. I started the year off by losing two very dear, though geographically distant, friends. In late spring, my mother-in-law — that fiesty, eccentric, often difficult personality — went into the hospital with what we thought was pneumonia and never came home. Lung cancer took…

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Now accepting members: Round 2 of our Yarn Club!

Earlier this year, my dear friend Brooke Nico and I brought you a very special beta version of our yarn club. We had such a good time doing it – and more importantly, our members did, too – that we’re doing it again. The Sip Sip Knit Yarn Club (Brooke came up with that name after our first round –…

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Favorite books I read: 2014 edition

It’s the time of year when people start creating “Best of” lists. I read a lot and used to talk more about non-knitting books on my blog, until I started using Goodreads to keep track of my reading and do quick reviews. But since I love getting recommendations for good books to read, I’ll join the many other writers and…

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Oldies but goodies: It’s that time again….

Since it was recently my blogiversary, I have thought about some of my favorite posts from the past nine (!) years of blogging. And this post is one of my all-time faves. It’s short but says it all and was written in early December 2006, when I heard the song “The Christmas Shoes” for the first time. Here you go:…

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On the fifth day of Christmas….

When it comes to handdyeing, I am fully aware that I’m idiosyncratic. I don’t usually do set colorways but when the lovely folks at Jimmy Beans Wool asked me if I would be interested in creating a special limited-edition batch of yarn for their holiday-season promotion, I could not say no. (Laura Zander is always so much fun to hang…

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