Getting Knitfaced

Ohhhhhhh Yeeeeaaaah!

nobody@vox.com(Mollie) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:46:08 -0400

A while back M. and I did some experimentation with yarn dying with kool-aid. I tell you what, if you are wanting to kick a kool-aid habit, dying yarn with it should do it for you. It's kind of creepy how well it dyes the yarn. Kind of makes you ...

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A lot has been happening...

nobody@vox.com(Mollie) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:59:18 -0400

This has already been a crazy fall and it's going to get crazier as it goes on. On the school/career front, I have started collecting data for my dissertation. This has eaten up a huge chunk of my time and has created a constant stream of things ...

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Sometimes I lose my mind a bit...

nobody@vox.com(Mollie) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:04:54 -0400

Behold, my "Blanket of Insanity", a work in progress. When I was looking at quilt patterns and quilting material for the quilt that my grandmother made me, I fell in love with scrap quilts. I have tried three different times to learn to sew, ...

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Something WICKED This Way Comes

nobody@vox.com(Mollie) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:50:03 -0400

I feel in love with the Wicked Sweater a while ago. According to the pattern, the short sleeved version in my size could be made with three skeins of Malabrigo. Spring before last, thats right, Spring of 2008, when my LYS first really started car...

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Summer Colors, Winter Weight

nobody@vox.com(Mollie) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:11:17 -0400

I love the look of a long, gauzy, fringed scarf worn in the summer with a tank or cap sleeved shirt, but now that I knit, I'm loath to purchase a scarf, so I don't own any of this type of scarf. At the beginning of this summer, there was a rash o...

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Blackberry Summer

nobody@vox.com(Mollie) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:07:34 -0400

I thought this summer was going to get calmer and more relaxing after summer teaching was over, but the opposite seems to have happened. This is a beer that was actually brewed back at the beginning of July. K. and I had both hit our stashes of Ra...

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Rising from the Ashes

nobody@vox.com(Mollie) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:57:21 -0400

I did a little fan girl knitting in honor of the new Harry Potter movie. This is a free, Harry Potter inspired pattern on Ravelry and is called Fawkes. According to the blurb on the pattern, the stitch motif is designed to look like a flame, whic...

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Finishing Week!

nobody@vox.com(Mollie) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:41:36 -0400

The summer school session has left me pretty short on knitting time over the last six weeks, but I did manage to finish up a couple of projects in the last week. The first was the Shay Cap Sleeve Pullover from Valley Yarns. This is knitted on ...

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Summertime in a Glass

nobody@vox.com(Mollie) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:56:32 -0400

This is a belgium wit beer kit from midwest brewing supply that we've flavored with raspberry-orange marmalade from my favorate marmalade maker, Sarabeth's. In retrospect, we should probably have gone with another style of wheat beer for this one....

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It's Been a Long Time Coming

nobody@vox.com(Mollie) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:19:35 -0400

I started this sweater last year as a baby shower gift, got all but one sleeve, the hood, and the button bands done, but never finished it. I had thought I might finish it for my brother and sister-in-law's child, but then they had a girl and I l...

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