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2017 Queue

December 30, 2016

January
  • Melilot Shirt in Cat Lady Rayon
  • Meet up with Tusarebecca for Linden Sweatshirt?
  • Knitting: Harvest Cardigan in Patons Worsted Wool (Mercury color)…probably finish in Feb
  • Quilt and bind quilt in progress (try to finish quilting new years weekend)
  • Block Blue Belle Scarf
  • Finish knee-high socks
  • Baby sweater for
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Serger Success!

December 5, 2016

I had my serger basics lesson at Stitch with Bex the other day! I brought in my machine, and she gave me a rundown of how to thread it, and we ran a test swatch through. The thread promptly broke, so we switched to one of the shop machines to…
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Deer & Doe Melilot

I’m SO thrilled with how this came out. After my muslin, I took a little break and did some other projects. When I finally had some time to work on it, I tried on the muslin again and made a few tweaks. I ended up pinching out .25″ or…
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Baby Sophisticate

Here’s the finished baby sophisticate for Jamie’s nugget! I’ll be sending it along with some socks (if I can remember where I stashed them), a book, and a mustache pacifier.
I got the buttons at Michael’s since I couldn’t seem to find any that worked anywhere!…
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Sergers and disappointments

November 28, 2016

This weekend was Thanksgiving with Mal’s parents! We had a nice time and I got some knitting done. I finished Jamie’s baby sophisticate – just have to block it and sew on buttons. I also got a good 5 or 6 inches done on my Blue Bell scarf that has…
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