Joining Ginny and others today for Yarn Along – sharing our knitting and reading.

I wanted to show you how those fleece-stuffed mittens (from Fox and Geese and Fences) are coming along.  It’s not the fastest knit, for sure, having to pause and add in all those bits of fleece, but the first mitten is done ...
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Well,  Ginny is taking a break today from Yarn Along, but I suppose I’ll share this anyhow!

Last week, I knit a mitten in a day.  Ella lost one in the snow from another pair, and I had one red mitten finished from last winter.  I remember that first mitten seeming to take forever to knit ...
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Today I’m joining Ginny’s love of knitting and reading with Yarn Along:

One Zimmerman mitered mitten done, one to go!  (And yes, I know there’s no thumb yet – she has you unravel some stitches to place the thumb in the exact right spot!).  Looking at this fun new book we have at Wheatberry, geared towards ...
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Playing along with Ginny of Small Things.

Shh.  Don’t tell Ben, but the elves are making him some of Elizabeth Zimmerman’s mitered mittens, in Barberic Farm yarn to match his warmest winter hat from last year (this yarn is hard to capture in a photo, so you’ll have to take my word for it – it’s ...
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With the help of my friend Jen and these two cutie pies, I entered the world of felting this week.  I’ve been gathering some wool sweaters at the thrift store with this purpose in mind, and I was finally ready to begin!  We took the sweaters, some dish soap, two sweet toddlers and put them ...
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