A hat pattern, not a picture post

Though it does have pictures in it. (You probably thought I’d forgotten how to write a post that wasn’t Project 365-based, didn’t you?) Hat, on my hand Looking at the top. Yay decreases! This hat as written will fit small newborns, and the seedstitch stripe pops out a bit from the stockinette body, which is [...]

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These had a longer wait than the July pictures

Which is why they’re going up ahead of my next batch of daily photos. My Chosen-by-Blog Socks are done! D-U-N done! I started these on April 22, 2008 and finished August 23, 2009. Yes, these socks have been in the works for 16 months. I am appropriately shamed. This sock (above) was finished first, last [...]

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In between massive home projects, I knit

Not all of my time has been eaten by the house. Hurricane Hat, modeled by our lovely and enormous aloe plant, named Chuck Norris. That’s right. Chuck Norris. I did have time to knit a tiny baby hat for Henry, who will join his parents (our good friends) in the air-breathing world sometime in September. [...]

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Recap

It’s been a busy few days here at House of HookOn, purchasing and riding bikes, attending a wedding reception and bonfire, almost attending another bonfire, and cleaning out the garage/organizing the basement. Three-day weekends rule. Now I have such a drive to get going on more things, like knitting for my three friends who are [...]

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In Bloom

I’ve started up a new project for a baby-to-be. This replaces the blanket I started a few weeks ago — that one just wasn’t working out for me and was threatening to take too long. So my solution? Rip out the blanket and cast on for a baby cardigan. But instead of making it baby-sized, [...]

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Project 365: 103-123: I came galumphing back

Source, if the word is confusing. My brain and my time is my own again, huzzah, huzzah! I never want to go so long between picture posts again. Nor, for that matter, between talking about knitting. Because it turns out that when I sit down to knit, I actually have things worth posting about. Here [...]

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Green is my color

I didn’t get last week’s pictures up last night because I was busy finishing this: Excuse me while I go block it. … SQUEE OF JOY!!

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Sunday Top Ten

I’m stealing this meme from every other blogger. Want to play along? Set your ipod to shuffle all (or play all, whatever) and list the first ten songs that come up. 1. “Dream Lover” by Bobby Darin 2. “Footloose” by Kenny Loggins 3. “Take a Chance on Me” by ABBA 4. “One More Robot / [...]

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I had all these plans

My plans for this week included: 1. Filing our tax return 2. Buy a plane ticket to Philadelphia for May 3. Start playing with paint colors for the kitchen 4. Finishing several knitting projects 5. Cleaning the kitchen 6. Doing several loads of laundry 7. Uploading pictures 8. Updating my other blog 9. Being awesome [...]

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Note to self

If you’re going to knit one sock over the course of 10 months, then dither about casting on for the second sock, it would help matters immensely if you were to not misplace the original pattern, causing you to use the wrong pattern for the second sock because the wrong pattern kind of resembles the [...]

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