Monthly Archives: November 2007
What’s Important
With all the yarn and dye and blogging business that goes on, sometimes it’s easy to forget those little important moments, the ones that bring tears to your eyes when, years later, you look at your mental snapshots. I had one of those moments today. Someone asked me to teach them to knit. But not [...]
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Rudolph the Swift!
It’s finished! All the wood bits on the floor, after going as far as I could yesterday: I had to improvise on the cross beams, since Lowe’s did not carry 1×1 boards. You can see the holes that brought yesterday’s work to a grinding halt: For reference, enlarging a quarter inch hole with a quarter [...]
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Blog Challenge: ID10T Errata
Not So Swift I am so tired, but staying awake courtesy of Weezer. You wouldn’t think running errands would make you yawning-at-6pm-tired, but today’s did! The good news is that one of those errands began the acquisition of swift bits – thanks in part to an old Lowe’s gift card! I have to admit that [...]
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Swifts and Design Stuffs
Swift Lust I am seriously considering building a few of these.Up until now, I’ve been using my big ol’ ball winder and a chair. And I really just can’t bring myself to keep doing it. Seriously. I wander over to the winder and chair, pick up a hank of yarn, pet the yarn for a [...]
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