T H E . T H R I F T Y . K N I T T E R

While contemplating pocket layout options for my recent Dress No. 3, I eyed the two castoff armpit scraps. They were too small for any of my pocket patterns, so I fashioned a reasonably roomy pat...

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Last week, bumping along a gravel road after a two-and-a-half hour drive, I thought to myself: What the fuck am I doing? That didn’t stop me from pushing on, of course. But it was the bud of an...

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A couple days before Yarn School, a rooster showed up out of nowhere. Long story short, for the last 3 weeks, Ruby has been sitting on half a dozen eggs and I’ve been getting more and more exci...

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My plan was to finish/produce one new project a week, but it turns out maintaining my focus is easier said than done. Instead of finishing each project in turn, as I meant, I bounced around and d...

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I’m always so giddy and inspired after Fiber School that I can’t wait to get started on an exciting new project. Usually I spin around in circles for a few weeks and get nothing done and lose...

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Due to concerns about ice this weekend. Winter Woolfest has been moved to Saturday, January 28. I’m a bit excited to get a couple extra weeks to dye, card, and obsess over my new booth (the Col...

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My Tour de Fleece goals this year were modest: 1) a fractal spinning project; 2) complete an unfinished spinning project. Given the volume I still have left of my chosen  YIP, I’m not overly o...

http://thriftyknitter.com/?p=1173

I’m knitting again! Huzzah! Hats are what I should probably be knitting, but since it’s been such a crazy mild winter (with the exception of a smallish ice storm after Thanksgiving that kept ...

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Ahhh! Fiber School is over, everything’s back in order, and the buildout of Ron’s new tattoo shop is wrapping up. Now if the rain would just lay off for more than a day at a time and let my b...

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Wait, that sounds like a bomb. I was going for timer. (But, you know, not the timer on a bomb. The regular kind.) Last night, Charlene was in the basement weighing wool in front of the TV, which ...

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