How about a little Knitting Content? edited

I am so excited! {I should really be casting on my Mystery Stole 3, but after waiting 2 weeks I have lost my momentum.     It’ll be back I am sure.} My patterns arrived from Stitch Poet Designs!! I have cast on and will be stitching away on Passin’ the Dress Code tonight while [...]

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WLC – Week 11 and an endless Rant

Well, another week and I have lost .6 lbs!
Again, I was surprised. I was pretty sure I would have gained but…I somehow pulled out a loss. Hmmmm…
I have seen this quiz at a few blogs now and thought I would try it out – since things have been all about the dogs lately. Kira and [...]

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WLC – Week 10 Etc.

Somehow, in the midst of not tracking what I ate this past week, I lost 4.6 lbs! Coulda been the stress…
That brings my total loss to 19.8 lbs – boo ya!
So I have 10.2 to go to make my July goal — is it strange that I don’t remember if my goal was for the [...]

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Dreadful! Updated

Right at the beginning I am just going to say that everything is ok now BUT today I left work early to go for a walk with my friend and our dogs, and while we were getting organized, Kira was hit by a car.
It was horrifying. I still feel a little sick over it – [...]

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New Projects

I am hoping for a quiet weekend – and so far the rainy weather is helping! I would like to do some more spinning – I did a little this afternoon. Enough to knit up a square for Rebuilding Greensburg.       What do you think? My first ever hand spun yarn. Boy, do I have [...]

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WLC Week 9, Hot Links & A Little Yarn Pr0n

Sooo I really let things fall by the wayside while I was away. Yes, yes we walked nearly everywhere for most of each day but…not enough to counterbalance the food choices I was making.
But oh was it yummy! We had Thai, Dim Sum, Vietnamese (oh the Iced Coffee!! – not many calories in that condensed [...]

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Where to begin? Perhaps the beginning.
We had a beautiful crossing to the Island – with lots of time to knit. Ever leaving things to the last minute, here I am beginning the sleeves for my Pullover en route. Knitting in the car led to meeting a fellow knitter on her way from Kelowna to see [...]

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Whoo!

Or maybe that should say “whew!” That was a jam packed 4 day trip. So much fun. It was so fabulous to spend all that time with my brother and his fabulous fiance, that we are so privileged to be adding to our family! We were so comfortable – it was like being at home, [...]

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WLC – Week 8 & a little Yarn Pron

Well – even though I ate a bit like a maniac the last couple of days I managed to lose .4 lbs. Which brings my total weight loss to 17 lbs! yay 12 lbs to go til goal. Though I am starting to think that might be a little optimistic for July. Ah well.
I was [...]

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Doldrums

That is the weather and not the knitting for once!
Good gracious. It is so d*mned hot here. Ugh. 29 freaking degrees of muggy humidity. It is totally gross. They have been calling for thundershowers and finally, finally there has been one lightning strike. It’s nearly 10 pm here and still nearly 30 degrees. Oh, oh [...]

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