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Continue reading →: 🎁Tis the Season: Christmas Gift Planning ProcessAlthough pumpkins 🎃 and ghosts 👻 surround me, I am in full-blown Christmas gift planning mode. With multiple recipients and high aspirations of handmade gifts, starting now is a must. Knitting to a deadline requires realistic planning. This year, I started making my list of gifts and recipients as soon…
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Continue reading →: Getting to Know My New Dreaming Robots EEW 6.1 | First Spin ResultsI am one spinning project into using the Dreaming Robots Electric Eel Wheel 6.1. The drop spindle experiment gave me confidence in upgrading my chosen spinning tools, but a learning curve still lurked around the corner for this complete spinning newbie. *This post contains affiliate links, where I earn a…
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Continue reading →: Frog or Fix: Altering for FunctionThere are two handknit items in my closet that I haven’t quite been happy with since making. I wear them, but when I do, I am constantly scrutinizing the fit or style of each one. For some knitters, these may have been frogged (aka unraveled) months ago, but for me,…
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Continue reading →: My Experience with Lykke Chopra Copper Knitting Needles (…so far)After just three completed projects, I have a pretty good idea of my opinion of the Lykke Chopra interchangeable copper needle set (3.5″). I acknowledge that all knitters have their specific preferences for tools, so I’ll start with why I decided on this set for my personal knitting toolkit. Why…
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Continue reading →: Did it fit? Step-by-Step Sweater UpdateWhen I selected the simple step-by-step sweater pattern, I was hoping for a cozy sweater with the recommended positive ease of 6″. However, I made some measurement errors somewhere in the gauge swatch process. To be honest, I’m not sure that I even compared my swatch to the correct pattern…
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Continue reading →: All Day I Dream About… Spinning?!Picking up a new hobby in 2026 was not on my list of goals. Yet, a few weeks ago, I was inspired to add to my fiber hobby portfolio and pick up spinning. Thanks to watching EmToTheThird on YouTube, I began dreaming of taking a project from raw wool to…
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Continue reading →: UncertaintyThere are a million examples of facing uncertainty in life. Will a relationship last? Will a new job be the right fit? Will a tough conversation go as planned? Questions like these plague us all, and yet, we push through the uncertainty, in hopes that it will work out. In…
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Continue reading →: 2 Projects, A Library Visit, and A Cafe MorningDo you know where your happy place is? For me, my spirit is filled with joy when I am creating (typically either knitting or writing) surrounded by the sights, smells, and sounds of a cafe environment. I love watching groups of people, chatting and laughing with one another. I love…
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Continue reading →: Stretch Project: Poet Scarf Results (& What I Learned)It is always an intentional effort to force myself out of my comfort zone. There is nothing I love more than an easy, stockinette-in-the-round project that can calm me into a meditative state. That’s my happy place. But, it isn’t where growth happens. So, every once in a while, I…
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Continue reading →: Tenacity (aka Learning to Knit)Picture this… The year is 2002. I am a new High School graduate, on my way to college in a few weeks. The summer, filled with preparations for my upcoming dorm life and new classes, felt longer than summers of the past. The long days of waiting made room for…
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