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Colour Charting in Excel: the Mac OS X 2011 Version

I’m planning a Fair Isle sweater, and can’t quite figure out which patterns or colours I want to use. Marnie Maclean has a great post about Using Excel to design colorwork, but when I tried to follow it with the … Continue reading

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Surprises Madrona

This was my third time at Madrona in four years, sharing a room with Yvonne as for last year, hanging out with knitting friends from Vancouver which was great and an improvement over last year, taking lots of classes as … Continue reading

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Festivus Bitterroot

For the 2010 Festivus I drew yarnpiggy and after much hither and thither, and a few false starts, I ended up making her a Bitterroot shawl out of Kauni Effektgarn, complete with beads. I’d never added beads to a shawl … Continue reading

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Festivus 2010

It’s been a long, long time since I blogged anything. I blame a number of factors, all of which too boring to detail here and now. But, I finally gave myself some motivation (I couldn’t wear my festivus gift until … Continue reading

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Festivus Spoils

One of the knitting groups I’m in on Ravelry meets locally, and beentsy and yarnpiggy organised a Festivus swap (secret Santa). I was lucky to get beentsy to knit for, and even luckier that damselfly drew me to spoil. Which … Continue reading

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