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The Exciting Conclusion of my Leaf Tie Cardigan
After a wash, it returned to the perfect size. Unfortunately, the surface now has a fine allover pill, kind of like those one-piece napped footie pajamas I had as a kid. You can kind-of see the fiber-trading between stitches in the photo there. I should have seen that coming. While I was knitting, the yarn…
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Gentlemen, Behold: Finished Leaf Tie Cropped Cardigan
Leaf Tie Cardigan by Stefanie Japel Size M sleeves, size S body 6 skeins of Cascade Pima Tencel yarn on #7 needles I-cord on #5 DPNs. My obvious modification was to replace the cute eyelet edges with some generic 1×1 ribbing. The eyelet and the color and my decidedly ungraceful elbows… well, I looked like…
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If minisweaters are good retro fun, then so are tunics.
love that roaring 20?s style. Though I’m really competent at crochet, you’re unlikely to see a crocheted item on this blog anytime soon because I can’t seem to stop trying to replicate the fine lacework from my modest 1920?s crochet pattern collection. (I took a brief hiatus from the tiny microhooks to make seventies socks.)…
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The Persistence of Minisweaters
My knitting mojo has been pretty weak lately. Last weekend I cleared all the frustrating knitting off of my TV-tray and sofa to cast on the Leaf Tie cropped cardigan minisweater object, in neither-serious-nor-useful bright aqua. It’s already 80% finished. Leaf Tie will be my third minisweater for the year, and I’m vaguely bothered by…
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Nobody except the Wall Street Journal is outraged about price fixing anymore.
All of the yarn consumer watch blogs ended in a whimper. Now I have to go back to places like the Wall Street Journal blog if I want to see people debate antitrust. “Can Fixed Minimum Retail Prices Be a Benefit for Consumers?” Sadly, the experts in the article don’t actually answer that question. Larry…