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The Vancouver East Side knitting crew has been at it again... Check out the fab pictures to accompany a new shawl design - Salt water - by Sylvia. Can you spot another talented designer? Yep Caitlin Ffrench is modeling with her husband. Too darn cute. … [Continue reading...]
The perfect break up song, if anyone out there needs one... By the indomitable Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne, known to knitters everywhere as Mason-Dixon Knitting. … [Continue reading...]
One of the things my husband remembers about me when he had a crush on me as a teen was my cardigans. I was always wearing one – given that summer in the UK can be a bit hit and miss, I pretty much had one with me 24-seven, 365 days a year. Well the [...]
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I’m going to wave goodbye to this sweet little sweater I knitted for my youngest son today. I enjoyed making it – it was one of my earlier efforts in cables and I was proud of how it turned out. But the truth is, sadly, he never wore it. He found it “itchy” even though [...]
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The crazy stripe socks are done…and they are off to France tomorrow. On the feet of a very special 12 year old, on his first major school trip. He is a very cool customer, and an avid historian (my friend caught him spending pocket money in Waterstones on a serious tome about the Norman conquest [...]
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Well this is what I did with one of my favourite sweaters that had worn out (big holes in a few places that would not look great mended). I pretty much chopped off the entire ‘body’ section and turned it upside down, making a knitted tube… Then I folded what had been the bottom [...]
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