just tidying up after the weekend

Before I posted my congratulations to Hilary for qualifying for the Boston marathon, I was telling you about our non-turkey Thanksgiving weekend, and I promised to come back and show you a Finished Object and…

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On the run

Funny coincidence this morning: I read Une Femme d’un Certain Age’spost in which she mentions preferring Aidan to Big (a Sex and the City reference for those of you who never watched the show). Then…

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more weekend observations: blogs, books, knitting plans, and dog escapes

I quite enjoyed making a random list of observations last Saturday, so I think I’ll try that again. 1. Miriam Felton, the designer of the Icarus ShawlI recently completed, mentioned my shawl and linked to…

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Wearing my Icarus

I’ve just posted to my first Knitalong, a blog devoted to knitting the Icarus shawldesigned by Miriam Felton and published in Interweave Knits, Summer 2006. Ideally, a knitter would post several times to a KAL…

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one week done, twelve more to go!

Well, that wasn’t too bad. I’ve made it through the first week of classes, and I’m feeling fairly optimistic about the term. Besides doing a 4-hour weekly stint in the Writing Centre, I have three…

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