Today, I’m joining Ginny for Yarn Along.
Some of you might remember that Fair Isle yoke I was adding into the Hourglass Sweater.  Well, it turns out that I can knit Fair Isle, and that the pattern is every bit as beautiful as I hoped.

It also turned out, when I tried the sweater on, that the ...
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A little of this . . .

And stitches cast on for my first sweater for myself (the Shalom cardigan).Ben’s World’s Warmest Hat is halfway done (he tried mine on and had to have one of his own), and Ella’s Provence sweater got finished before all the snow melted – hooray!  One note: this pattern was ...
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Do you see how tantalizingly close this sweater is?  Must. finish.
Even though truly warm weather is a ways off, and I’ll probably still be wearing the occasional sweater in May, my little polar bear was already walking around in short sleeves yesterday.
And also, some new words.  Definitely in progress, but here we go.
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March
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Hope you’re enjoying the weekend, folks.  Here, I’m trying to get over a serious case of the crankies (seems to be making the rounds at our house – hmmm.)
We are . . .
sending out some love to family and friends (and you too – Happy Valentine’s Day!)

Loving this book, which arrived from the library just ...
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First, I just want to say welcome to all the readers who came over from my interview swap with Heather of Shivaya Naturals.  I’m so glad you stopped by!  Usually I do a Gratitude Friday post, but since we had the fun interviews yesterday, let’s go for Gratitude Saturday.  Shall we?

Grateful for Solstice Bulbs still ...
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