Month: December 2009
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Totally geeking out…
I work with Google Apps all day long as a technology instruction librarian…trying desperately to find solutions in education using these tools. And some brilliant knitters created this amazing video for Google Chrome, the web giant’s latest venture in Browser creation, to highlight all its best features. It’s freaking brilliant. The amount of work that […]
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Fair Isle Frost…
As the frost sets in for a solid Boston winter, it also posed the perfect opportunity to knit up a pair of mittens to fend off the frost. Immediately after seeing the Quo Vadis fair isle mittens by Spilly Jane, I had to have a pair (or a couple) for friends, family, and maybe even […]
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Drink up this inspiration: The Thermis.
I have squealed with delight several times over the beautiful results of the Thermis neckwarmer, a fabulous design my Kris Knits (which you can scoop up here). I’m so in love with the way it looks on (and with how beautifully written the pattern was–and so easy to follow), I’ve already nearly finished another version […]
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Candy canes and snowmen…and all that ho hum.
It’s a mad dash to get all the holiday knitted gifts completed; and this year, I had two orders for comissioned pieces (a set of Bella Swan cabled mittens and a hearts beret for a co-workers 16 year old daughter and two Minnesota Vikings Hats for a friend of my Mum’s son and his wife, […]
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Perfection as an odd-bod…
I have a penchant for knitting up what friends like to dub “critters”. I gift a lot of them out, but then, I save a whole bunch too, never quite sure what to do with half of them. But Rill-Raccoon Rox is certainly one I’m keeping for sure. Created by the ever amazing Donna Wilson, […]
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Booking It…To Bed, That Is.
Lately, I’ve been notching off even more books on the “Life List” than I have since my days of working nights…many slow nights. Two years of grad school plus work did not afford me as much outside reading time as I would normally like, and quite frankly, things were busy. But now that I have […]
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