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Home again

Published on November 12, 2011

Spent 3 days down at my daughter’s house mostly taking care of her twins, whilst she was “busy elsewhere.” While the twins, newly promoted to “older brothers” were at school on Wednesday and Thursday, I was at the hospital with Kate and Joshua Raymond, born 09 Nov at 522p; he was 8 lb, 8 oz. […]


Sure enough, there’s trouble

Published on November 6, 2011

I suspected a problem, but kept on knitting along, because I thought — WHAT??  I thought that the remaining ball of yarn would somehow get larger instead of smaller? It would somehow, like a religious miracle, suddenly become enough to finish this shawl. I thought I was knitting with 5 fish and 2 loaves and […]


I suspect trouble

Published on November 5, 2011

Knitting on Summer Flies, and I want it longer so I add another repeat of one of the very pretty patterns. It takes about 14 rows and at this point, near the end, these rows are about 200 stitches per row.  Takes over 10 min to do a knit row, longer to purl back. It’s […]